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. NTEN Tech Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the past four years, I’ve designed and facilitated panels on social media and nonprofit topics that were fun learning experiences and well documented. Hashtags and Non-Profit Community Development. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Be a Design Superhero: Vanquish the Wasted Pretty. Let’s Talk Video for Social Change.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. NTEN / Portland, OR / $899. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $480.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

Two of them (Convio and Blackbaud) are even publicly traded companies, which says a lot about the profit potential of this vertical. Both NTEN and Idealware are the best sources for information about the range of options for this toolset – that’s out of scope for this post.

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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 is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2014

Each track will have two Lead Facilitators and several additional Facilitators who will design spaces and lead small group conversations to make sure that every participant has the chance to both learn and share. That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Sometime after leaving WGBH and feeling lost about my career for a while, I discovered NTEN and the career called "non-profit techie" That’s when I also discovered the two-step secret to becoming a non-profit techie. Step 1: Call yourself a career non-profit techie ! Seek permission to work with these people.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Using this simple method, your nonprofit advertises the availability of your designated fundraising phone number to potential donors. Using this method, you’d similarly promote your designated fundraising phone number. Thousands of for-profit enterprises are making billions of dollars selling apps. Text message donations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I'm happy to share with the NTEN community a major change in the Google Grants process designed to improve the experience for prospective Google Grantees. For more about the Google Grants program which offers free online advertising to select non-profits, please visit the Google Grants program website.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX: Financial Sense: Making your Nonprofit Profitable. Toronto, Canada: Pints Not Profits Toronto. New York, NY: Content Modeling: Where Strategy, Design, and Tech Converge.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Officially, a silo is a large cylinder designed to insulate its contents. Fortune 500 companies and political campaigns spend gazillions on capturing and syncing your info -- because it leads to more profit or a win at the ballot box. Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN. So what's holding us back? . In a word, silos. .

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. 40th Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference. Finance / @nysscpa.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

One of the reasons I love the NTEN community is that I can revel in the joys of hanging out with other geeks like me. If they're digitally driven, they're often conceived, designed, written, and launched in a matter of days -- often with a special name, logo, tagline, color palette, and other unique branding. That means you.) .

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

With just two weeks until the event, MobileCause (the co-host of Innogive) has decided to extend this deal to the NTEN community and enable 50 additional nonprofits the chance to attend the conference for just $99. Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. Lots more resources on responsive web design: - [link].

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Vancouver, British Columbia: Pints Not Profits: Field Trip to Vancouver Hackspace. Portland, Oregon: NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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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. The best part of this design is that participants are the content – the community is the curriculum! Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

. NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many non-profits have embraced features such as forums, blogs, user profiles, and photo/video sharing as a means to extend their reach. As non-profit organizations, your sites likely have the added complexity of tying this data to a constituent database. Web Developer, TerpSys.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

To design a technology model that could address the spectrum of skill in the network would be a challenge. Jacey Tramutt works as a Technical Assistance (TA) specialist for PEAK Parent Center, a non-profit that helps parents of children with disabilities navigate the special education system.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Brett Meyer, NTEN. The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

One of them was charity: water , a non-profit bringing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations that had launched a September Birthday campaign. Hat tip Brett Meyer at NTEN ). The new Facebook design may have confused people - it???s A facebook status is less ???active??? re paying less attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

But, the reality is we’ve gotten carried away – I know I’ve been guilty – with focusing our energy on visual design and functionality. Having strong, strategically designed content will maximize your web presence and provide a larger ROI. Your organizational content should be intentional. Duh, right?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Los Angeles, California: Web Accessibility: Designing Inclusive User Experiences. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Designing Effective Public Engagement for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Portland, Oregon: Design Like Mad Portland.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She’s had an extensive career managing the development of campaign strategies, messaging, and design for Web, print, TV, and other media. Brooke joined Rare (a non-profit specializing in social marketing for conservation) as the Director of Marketing in 2007, overseeing the creation of new materials for Rare’s U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Boston, Massachusetts: Community Class — Intro to Design Thinking and Prototyping. Melbourne, Australia: Ideas for the Not-for-Profit Intranet. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

They didn’t know they were doing business process modeling, change management, or data design and didn’t understand how those things were linked to successful technology projects, but they worked with a consultant who could craft a solution in partnership with them.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. Convio Interested in learning how your website stacks up against other non-profits like yours? Want to share it?

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MARCH 6, 2009

NTEN, Common Knowledge and ThePort have teamed up to take a snapshot of how our non-profit community uses social networks. This survey is designed to answer questions like "buy or build," to give nonprofits benchmarks, and to help move beyond anecdotal data about social network use. Nonprofit Social Network Survey.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2011

Would you treat your architect like you do your web designer ? "My If you're in the mood to read something on your mobile device, you might also want to check out the " Non-profit Guide to Internet Marketing " from LawHelp.org. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies.

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