NTEN

JUNE 16, 2021

One of the principles guiding NTEN is centering our roles around equity. NTEN was named as one of the 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon for 2021. NTEN employs multiple levels of equity review, feedback, and contribution through staff, board, and community equity committees.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2011

Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! Congratulations to NTEN Members named as Laureates in the 23rd Annual Computerworld Honors Program , including Inveneo and Microsoft ! Have more news to share?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

When we opened up 11NTC session voting, our followers on Twitter started voicing their concerns about session designers campaigning for positive votes on their sessions. But, as a staff, we're concerned about limiting your voice in session selection. Read the entire conversation and chime in here. How do we balance it all?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Please join NTEN in welcoming our new Lead Organizers, Dave Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA) and James Porter (Denver, CO) for Tech Clubs and Dar Veverka (Baltimore, MD), and Jonea Agwa (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) for online groups. What do you appreciate/like the most about NTEN and the NTEN Community? Lead Organizers for Tech Clubs.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

In that window of opportunity, I snagged an invite from NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward and have spent the last day playing around with it in between other projects. Most posts and conversations today in my circles have been focused around making sense out of it all. Is it a Facebook killer? That’s what I want Google+ for.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. But operating and communicating as if every commenter is a troll will shut down conversation very quickly. —– Normally, I stay away from assumptions: We all know the saying about what assuming does to you and me!

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] You can't stop the community from talking, but you can help define the conversation. [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2012

But it’s the community itself, each of you out there participating, that do the work of maintaining the open and kind energy that keeps the conversation flowing. Sarah Janczak. Community Manager. Technology has made it possible to scale positive community attributes internationally.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. It's Not Media, It's Conversation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined this quarter''s NTEN Town Hall! I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. NTEN Update NTEN staff met in Portland for our winter staff meetings earlier in January. We call it the "rain drops".)

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Maddie : Lindy and I have talked to thousands of association executives who have voiced their frustrations about the social web — from the overabundance of tools and the disorderly experimentation of staff (and members!), Maddie : We can’t wait for 11NTC , NTEN’s conference in Washington DC – where we know Blackbaud will be!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. lets the handsets translate conversations in real time. Also demonstrated is how you can use the voice recorder to send dictate and send an email for you. I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. I’ve included my interview below, but you can also read it and join the conversation on the NetSquared blog.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Note that the conversation doesn’t begin and end with the weekly chats. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. This is similar to the finding in the NTEN/Idealware study that discovered the barriers that keep nonprofits from collecting and using data: expertise, time, and money.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

NTEN is taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy answer a few questions for the NTEN community. Tags: lindy dreyer maddie grant NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2011

Adriane Berg and Pat Bohse have created just such a show, the Not-for-Profit Exchange, featuring some of the leading voices in nonprofit technology. Started in 2010, the purpose of the show is to have the conversations on how the private and public worlds can help each other and work better together. All shows are archived on the site.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. Develop your voice for each tool. Develop a unique strategy and voice for each service, based on your research into the strengths and limitations of each tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Note that the conversation doesn’t begin and end with the weekly chats. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Recently, I had a conversation with Annaliese of NTEN , and a couple of Community TechKnowledge (CTK) staff members. Urging the guest experts and me, as we recorded each episode, to have fun and to be conversational. Effectively editing down our long and wide-ranging conversations into tightly focused short episodes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com. It delves deeper into the uses of salesforce.com campaigns tab, " Salesforce Campaigns for Nonprofits " There some kind words over at the NTEN Blog about my most recent screencast.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

While there are always lessons to be learned as we gather feedback—through evaluations, emails, and conversations with members of the Community (yup, we really do read them all)—we wanted to take a moment to share some of the highlights. Steering Committee Invitation Want to help shape the educational content for the 16NTC?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We can use our voice and our economic power and our political power to actually make changes to the platform. Let me put that aspect of it aside for the rest of this particular conversation and what I’d like to hear from you, our suggestions. Amy DeVita, TopNonprofits : Yeah. And I agree with you.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

She plays the violin, takes drama classes, falls asleep to Bob Marley, and prefers her Super Woman costume over any other “nightgown” But what was most endearing about this six year old Rapunzel lookalike was that she was present in our conversations – alert and aware beyond her years. really listened. Bottom line?

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] I've mentioned in the past how this conference is much like a "family reunion" where we see faces we knew from previous sessions but also new faces and voices of NTC community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US. She uses Twitter to share what's going on at NTEN, announce new initiatives, and have conversations with NTEN members.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

There are several similar services, architecturally, but Crowdrise excels in providing a distinctly new voice and feel - a reminder that there's lots of room for different kinds of messaging. I've heard that conversion rates to payment are sometimes not high, and there are few built-in incentives to continue giving or interacting.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Higher share of voice : In a general purpose social network your message can get drowned out by competing voices and a deluge of advertising. You may be ignored at first but after a month of daily half hour engagement you should start to have two-way conversations. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Staff have to see the impact of their voice being added to the conversation. It can be tricky and a little scary to get staff other than the communication or fundraising staff invested in participating in online community building. Staff have to see a payback or reason to get engaged themselves. So where to begin? for " Ctrl.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

Did you start a juicy conversation in a breakout or in the hallway? In order to facilitate good conversation and learning, we invite you to consider the following guidelines whenever you join an NTC Salon Session: Respect all participants & their opinions. Do you have a question you need help with that isn’t addressed by breakouts?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

This year''s conference will have over 100 educational programs, many opportunities to find and network with your peers and new colleagues, and, of course, events that you''ve come to expect from the NTC like coffee, great conversations, and plenty of tweets. Day 1 will feature 7 different speakers, all presenting in the Ignite format.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Add your voice to the discussion today! NTEN's own Holly Ross suggests a simple formula: (Time & Money Saved + Money Earned) - (Time & Money In) = ROI. We hope that, after you've read through it, you'll consider adding to the conversation. This month, all of the links are courtesy of We Are Media. Share Your Story.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2009

" In many ways, like Tara Hunt , I'm tired of having the conversation of what it means to be a woman in this field, but that doesn't mean it's not an important conversation to have. Women Who Tech , Fast Company and countless others are celebrating the role of women in this field and helping us to find our voices. .

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