Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method. Organizational Culture.

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JULY 28, 2010

Since we are a culture of acronyms, I fondly call it the “PREP” method: Plan – Research – Execute – Proact. (I Tags: christy van heugten Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. Keep this in mind when you begin prioritizing the messages and ask(s) on your homepage. .

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AUGUST 6, 2014

If youve looked over the agenda for the NTENs first-ever Leading Change Summit (#14LCS) this September, youve probably noticed that we tried to build in a healthy mix of time that attendees will spend in their tracks vs. time that will be spent all together.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Learn these tried-and-true methods to plan for successful user adoption and, ultimately, a culture that embraces technology at your organization. The good news: there are tried-and-true methods to plan for successful user adoption and, ultimately, a culture that embraces technology at your organization. Tucker MacLean.

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APRIL 6, 2021

While this may make sense and save time, these methods may be causing unknown barriers for new volunteers. To ensure you are fostering an inclusive volunteer culture, you need to build meaningful relationships with volunteers. The post 5 Ideas for Developing More Inclusive Volunteer Management appeared first on NTEN.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. Organizations were asked to specify the primary methods they use to select “peers” to benchmark against. How does my organization identify peers (for benchmarking purposes)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. How do you apply these two methods? It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

I like to use a combined method. This requires creating a culture of curiosity, a norm of continuous improvement, and leadership commitment — all hallmarks of a “ data-driven culture ”, whether the data be numbers or stories. The above shows the methods. Perhaps we're confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Rather, organizations should have a culture that provides for an ongoing relationship with technology. Once the organization has a culture that embraces technology as part of the team, the rest can really flourish. Tags: managing technology NPTech NTEN Tech Planning. Can we rename it Mission Alignment?

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

There are also cultural, social, and interpersonal challenges that will go along with this transition. We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. Howe has presented at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) since 2009. This simply won't work for WFH 2.0.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Sometimes the problem is cultural. Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks. Peer training is the ideal method, since it engenders trust between equals. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. Sometimes the problem is training. There are bugs. Literally!).

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

The transition from the use of stone axes to a steel axes produced a distrust so deep that older Aborigine men would not share sacred cultural information with younger men that were using the steel axe introduced by Europeans. Utilization of all four of these methods can help alleviate the negative effects of a technology change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” Make Solo Time A Part of Your Team Culture. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The idea, grand in scope, was to present models and technology that can assist organizations shift internal cultures to make diversity of all types the norm. Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2015

Get on the same page with your volunteers' preferred methods of appreciation or watch them walk out your door. Program Coordinator in Volunteer Services. Multnomah County Library. Effective recognition is a big deal when it comes to ensuring volunteers feel like they're a part of your nonprofit or organization.

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APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. Password Cracking Password cracking involves using various methods (computational and otherwise) to break through password authentication to gain access to an account.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

But whatever method we came up with to track, monitor, and evaluate projects would have to be easy for them to use and communicate back to headquarters—in a timely enough manner that the data were still meaningful. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As

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JUNE 27, 2012

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

September Issue NTEN Journal. The new issue of the NTEN Change Journal is all about data! In the book, we have a chapter about how one changes the organization’s culture to one that uses data for decision-making. The issue contains lots of practical advice, an infographic of the NTEN benchmarks study, and and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. NTEN has recently published the “ Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology ,” that describes in detail how your organization can dismantle inequity due to more intentional technology choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day. View more presentations from burowe.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation. Listen First!

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. For example, if one organization heavily utilizes Outlook Calendars, they could be fearful of having to change their method of calendaring to something different. By Michelle Hines, UCP/CLASS.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

We have been working through this cultural shift at the YMCA of Metro Chicago over the last few years. We have tried numerous methods with varying results, but learn from it each time. Gradual Culture Shift. Below are the key elements to creating a culture shift to enable staff to become digital editors.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

It can be an informal memo or a full-blown report, depending on the style and culture of your organization. This article is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's new book , " Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission " which includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for successful ROI projects. So, stay tuned.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. Governance / @usdsoles. Fundraising.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Cognitive Bias: The Invisible Elephant in the Room There are big reasons why organizations struggle to avoid driving strategy with instinct, so to create a culture that encourages data-based decisions, leaders must first recognize the cognitive biases that influence decisions. Use A/B testing methods to test a single variant in your workflow.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. NTEN / Washington, DC / $850. Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) / Chicago, IL / $400. General / #AASP16 / @advserv. 10/26/2016. The Fast Company Innovation Festival. Mar 23 - 25. Apr 30 - May 2.

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MAY 5, 2015

Rather, he sees this as a way to point towards what they needed to be doing better—encouraging a culture of continuous improvement. Make sure you’re getting credible data: ensure that your method of data collection itself is not skewing the results. Collecting data may be cheap, but it’s still not free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Culture Change.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The potential impact of this shift in work is financial, social, cultural, and environmental. Varied methods of virtual and transparent communication. Individual Roles and Company Culture and Values. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. Increased employee productivity and creativity.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

5 principles from the science of behavior: 1) From the cultural cognition field--we realize that millenials embrace community. Traditional method of ''i ask, you give'' doesn''t really work on this generation. This is called ''rational choice theory''. This is wrong. However, I''ve seen huge change at the hands of millennials.

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