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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. everyone will need training in order to realize efficiencies and goals. Important points from the trainings are also placed into the Resource List. By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0

Social Media

Social Media Collaboration Org Media

Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. Many thanks to NTEN and Google for such a great event! Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff).

NTEN

NTEN Synchronous Doc Internet

Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!):

Communication

Communication email Marketing Reflection

Webinars

How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. Appreciating you!

Open

Open Platform Kintera API

Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad.

API

API Open Source Kintera Benchmark

Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

Open

Open Platform Kintera API

The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

Social

Social South America Disaster Mobile

The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

Social

Social South America Disaster Mobile

Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage.

Hype

Hype Charity API Iowa

What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

AJAX

AJAX Application Open Source Plugin

Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage.

Hype

Hype Charity API Iowa

Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc.

Web

Web Experiment gMail Open Source

Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

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. Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Can’t wait!

Social Media

Social Media Map Strategy Media

8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

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. The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms.

Facilitation

Facilitation Tips Camera Nonprofit

Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

For those interested in more detail on this topic, I first wrote about this nearly three years ago and unfortunately, it looks like CiviCRM still hasn’t made any progress on supporting platform-neutral web services API, per the main doc on this topic , which says “the vast bulk of CiviCRM’s functions are not exported thought any net-based (..)

Integration

Integration API Drupal Open Source

Case Study: NPower Michigan and Board Collaboration Tools

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.

Case Study

Case Study Michigan Collaboration Studies

Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One key piece for a successful migration is training all users/staff to make sure they know the purpose of a system switch, what the benefits are, and what is required from them. I also provided weekly tech hours in the office, giving the staff a chance to get individual help or training on tech issues/questions.

Case Study

Case Study Google Studies Tutorial

Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Keep a library of training materials. When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word burning party as everyone embraced Google Docs. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

Lesson

Lesson Cancer Learning PDF

Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Keep a library of training materials. When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word burning party as everyone embraced Google Docs. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

Lesson

Lesson Cancer Learning PDF

"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. Tags: Community CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

Google

Google North America Management

Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants.

Consultant

Consultant Advice NPO Files

NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Net Tuesdays are spreading around the globe! It was covered by C|NET news.

Nptech

Nptech Summary Adopt Tag

Nonprofit Technology

Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Webinars

Trending Sources

Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

Webinars

Platforms break open!

Tidbits

Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

Platforms break open, part II

The Social Sector Cloud

The Social Sector Cloud

Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

What is cloud computing?

Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Integration of CRM and CMS

Case Study: NPower Michigan and Board Collaboration Tools

Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

Advice for Consultants - Part 2

NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

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