NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. Questions and Discussion Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. That's one of the goals of research institutions and cultural spaces in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

We will be covering these in an upcoming NTEN Webinar on November 28th. One of the points that resonated was how to create an organizational culture where failure is accepted so you can reap the learning from it. For the So What rule to work, you have to follow the 7 steps of measurement and have worked out a ladder of engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

You wrote your essay, studied your spelling words, took tests (without looking at anyone else’s answers!). NTEN facilitated a wiki to create workshop curriculum for social media and nonprofits with more than 200 nonprofit technology practitioners as part of the WeAreMedia project. How do you do this?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

What I think is really exciting about this view of the data, is when you can look across a global region and extrapolate on the cultural influences and beyond. So, although you may only have 100 people give you an answer, if your question said, for example, “Have you heard of NTEN?&# Campaigning.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

If we don't know something is going to work, how do we quickly and cheaply test our assumptions? Identify the minimum viable idea, then test that idea. Don't be afraid to split your testing to narrow down your data, and not just in email. Create your culture to adapt. We're addicted to being successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. He's talking about organizational culture change and resistance, but he emphasizes the importance of a proof of concept project. You want to make this a quick test.

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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." It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. Test and tweak. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Feedburner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! To shift expectations, we let people know at the beginning of the that they could stand at anytime, pace, or sit — that we want to make standing an okay cultural norm. Photo by Jim Nickerson. Photo by Jim Nickerson.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

I challenge myself to find new and exciting OS/Browser combinations to test. Enabling a Culture shift. Tags: Data marissa goldsmith Newsletter NPTech NTEN Communications. Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Once you find twenty target communities, rank them for size, activity, relevance to your issue, location, demographic, and cultural fit. Engage, Engage, Engage : Based on your listening, start to contribute in a way that is appropriate to the community’s culture. Test the waters. Then select the top three and get started.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. As @orgnet says, “Turning data into stories is the real trick.”.

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

We've engaged Randal Moss and David Neff, authors of The Future of Nonprofits: Thrive and Innovate in the Digital Age , to lead a course on creating a culture of innovation that will help your org become a technology leader. Innovation is a way of thinking, a culture, as much as it is a process. > Learn more and register today.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Since we are a culture of acronyms, I fondly call it the “PREP” method: Plan – Research – Execute – Proact. (I Refer to the scientists : There have been many website eye movement tests that analyze what attracts a viewer’s eye and where the most valuable real estate on a page is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Shape the Path (create a culture for change). He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. He pointed out that it was story of hope.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The Big Changes the Cloud Brings Changes Culture. Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The Big Changes the Cloud Brings Changes Culture. Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org).

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Shape the Path (create a culture for change). He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Shape the Path (create a culture for change). He talked about a test using a food drive with two sets of instructions, one complicated and one simple. How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. This is a critical first step towards a social culture for many nonprofits that is often skipped and it is terrific to have a case study.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Amy Sample Ward from NTEN shared, from their recent Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report that only 4% of an organization’s budget, on average, was devoted to ‘technology’. Of different cultures. Underinvestments—time, money and energy—Are Not Helping Nonprofits Overcome Significant Challenges.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Brand it and test it. NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Or, find a new tool.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. Brute Force Brute force attacks work by calculating every possible combination that could make up a password and testing it to see if it is the correct password.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. test and teweak. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Created by the Center for Asian American Media, this game hopes to empower young girls, ages 8 - 14, to look past the aspects of life that seem to be male dominated and learn something about themselves and environmental awareness, cross-cultural engagement, team work, and gender equality. JURY FEEDBACK. JURY FEEDBACK.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. The idea that technology – from decisions to training and even testing new tools – would be something reserved for a single staff person or department doesn’t simply meet the needs we have as organizations anymore. Amy Sample Ward. Let’s face it: It’s 2015.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

They bridge many divides — including cultural, linguistic, and age-related. But here at M+R, we've seen hard data contradict brilliant theories often enough to know that testing is essential, so we put personal stories to the test for a major national health organization. This test isn't an anomaly.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

Read the entire case study in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware When [NTEN Member] Andy Wolber worked for NPower Michigan—first as a consultant, then later as executive director—the organization had a geographically spread-out board of 10-15 members.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. Something that would stand the test of time while our relationships and collaborations evolved. Holly Ross is former executive director of NTEN, and currently executive director of the Drupal Association.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

RI4A is almost as committed to rigorous A/B testing as they are to immigration reform. Throughout their campaign, they've tested everything – from what time you should call your legislators to the best way to structure a text message – in English and in Spanish. Words that seem benign in English may have loaded meaning in Spanish.

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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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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. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Culture Change.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Find someone who's already done the work -- and hopefully have invested a lot of money in testing that work, too. The single best thing you can do for your organization is to create a culture that isn't afraid of numbers. Need a good idea how to refresh your donation forms? Need a welcome series that works? Are the numbers up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

I didn't realize this, but she is also the founder of the The Society For Geek Advancement, which aims to bring together geek culture for social good. I've heard Randi speak a couple of times, including this informative webinar hosted by NTEN. the feature may also open up more broadly after tested. Was it all hype?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Matt Koltermann, Cross-Cultural Solutions. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Enter your site info, upload the xd_receiver.htm file to your root directory, and test the connection. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ].

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. So, start testing- the sooner you do, the sooner you can start converting new donors. In this NTEN blog post, How Can I Love You If You Don’t Know My Name? We Miss you! Or free sodas. Have a listen.

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