Google Drive as an Organizational Document Management System: an NTEN Case Study
NTEN
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
A look at the basics of NTEN's own continually evolving Google Drive Policies and Document Management System. Karl Hedstrom. IT Director.
NTEN Case Study: Managing Systems and Documents in the Cloud
NTEN
MAY 14, 2013
NTEN, whose mission is to help members strategically use technology to make the world a better, just, and equitable place, didn't so much consciously move to the Cloud as come of age in it. When IT Director Karl Hedstrom joined NTEN in 2006, a few employees had been working remotely, thanks to the Cloud. Kimberlee Roth.
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RIP: Rob Stuart, Godfather of the NpTech Movement
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 27, 2011
I got hear the legends in the nptech sector in the early days talk about their work and was inspired. The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki.
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NTEN Research Committee: Want to join?
NTEN
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
We''re looking for individuals interested in serving in a volunteer position with NTEN on the Research Committee. At NTEN, it is incredibly important to us that the community we serve is an active part of our work. The Research Committee will meet quarterly by phone and engage directly in review of all NTEN research projects.
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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 9 2010
NTEN
JULY 9, 2010
HaitiAidMap from InterAction (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Members are in bold. project Haitiaidmap.org.
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54 NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: April 30
NTEN
APRIL 30, 2010
(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Thanks to all those who documented and shared! Members are in bold.
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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: First in 2010!
NTEN
JANUARY 15, 2010
(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz nten member. Members are in bold.
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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. If you haven't already, you'll have to create an NTEN Affinity Group Profile.
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NTEN Members Online Round-Up: May 20, 2011
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 Leadership: Jane Messeck at Microsoft Community Affairs
NTEN
JUNE 29, 2010
Technology used to be, as Jane Messeck of Microsoft Community Affairs puts it, transactional: it was about moving a document from point A to point B faster, making it easier to store and find things, making sure everyone could print. Tags: Leadership Leadership microsoft NPTech. Technology was about efficiency. .
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2011 NTEN LIfetime Achievement Award: Judy Hallman
NTEN
MARCH 19, 2011
Each year, NTEN recognizes a member of this community who has furthered the work of the nonprofit technology field through dedication, innovation, and leadership. This year, we are thrilled to honor Judy Hallman for her work with this award. Her first job in computing came long before the Web.
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Donate to the NTC 2014 Scholarship Fund! (A Past Recipient Shares Her Story of Change)
NTEN
MAY 21, 2013
Thanks to skills I picked up at NTC, I was able to better survey our community to find service gaps and develop social interventions to improve their health; redevelop our website with the latest usability research in mind, turn our drab social media policy into a "living document", and train staff in best practices.
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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: June 29th
NTEN
JUNE 29, 2009
From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing: Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. The only tech he took with him was his flip camera to document. solutions for nonprofit orgs.
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Help Us Redesign the NTEN Web Site
NTEN
JUNE 9, 2009
We're going to do our best to document the process over the next few months. Tags: NPTech NTEN nten.org site redesign web design web site. Flickr Photo: zaklee Our web site is over two years old, and the botox just isn't hiding the. cracks anymore. Fortunately, the good folks at Beaconfire are helping us out with a.
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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Week of August 14
NTEN
AUGUST 14, 2009
NTENny winner and general NTEN rock star Peter Campbell has a great run-down of the various nonprofit technology related extra-curricular work he's doing -- and by work, I mean the resources he's building and sharing with other nptechies. Tags: community buzz NPTech nptimes nten members twitter. You can see the latest here.
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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 18, 2007
While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond.
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Donate to the NTC 2014 Scholarship Fund! Past Recipients Share the Changes Your Help Brings
NTEN
MAY 21, 2013
Thanks to skills I picked up at NTC, I was able to better survey our community to find service gaps and develop social interventions to improve their health; redevelop our website with the latest usability research in mind, turn our drab social media policy into a "living document", and train staff in best practices.
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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.
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50 NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With Nonetheless, he had to write an article.
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50 Small Organizations and Social Media: It's What You DON'T Do That Matters
NTEN
MAY 25, 2010
Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have documented some of the small organizations who used social media exceedingly well during the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Here at NTEN, we're in an interesting position. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. survey software.
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The September Issue of NTEN:Change is Now Available
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2011
The third issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits are measuring their social media efforts. As well as articles from NTEN experts in our "Tech Across Your Org" and "DIY Nonprofit Technology" sections.
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Nature vs. Nuture, or Why You Should Follow Your Gut on the Social Web
NTEN
JULY 22, 2010
Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. Even though it turns out that NTEN's strategy isn't much different from our instincts, it's still important for us to have clear objectives and tactics for reaching our objectives. What makes it official? It has its own Google Doc.)
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Using Technology for Mission: Ontario 211 and NTEN Hear From the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
NTEN
OCTOBER 5, 2011
[Editor's note: Ontario 211 and NTEN asked Ontario nonprofits about how they were using technology – and how they’d like to be using technology – for their work. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. If you’d like to share your stories, click here.]. Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Website: [link].
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Member Round Up: Fundraising tips, new research, and tools
NTEN
MAY 17, 2013
As the first Salesforce guide for nonprofits, the manual is a "living" document, so you can also contribute it. Long-time NTEN member and supporter, Atomic Mobile , recently reached a big milestone of 200 clients on the new TapFunder mobile donation platform - check it out ! Community Fundraising member news Member Round Up nptech'
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Latest Issue of NTEN:Change is Live: Myth-Busting, Everyday Innovation, Case-Studies, Confessions, and More
NTEN
MARCH 1, 2012
Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies.
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If You Build It, Will They Laugh?
NTEN
MAY 6, 2010
In case you haven't noticed, we love jokes here at NTEN world headquarters: witty remarks, amusing cat videos , Star Wars references. Tags: facebook humor immigration NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Lately, we've been reading the jokes on our Laffy Taffy as fast as we can unwrap them, which is pretty fast.
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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters
Tech Soup
AUGUST 24, 2015
On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection.
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New Issue of NTEN:Change: From Outcomes to Impact
NTEN
DECEMBER 1, 2011
The December issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits are tracking their constituents. As well as articles from NTEN experts in our "Tech Across Your Org" and "DIY Nonprofit Technology" sections.
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CTOs for Good: White Paper
NTEN
MARCH 19, 2012
In 2011, NTEN, with support from the Knight Foundation , convened the CTOs for Good forum and conducted follow-up interviews with the participants in order to document and share the group’s experiences and challenges. The group addressed a number of issues over the course of the year, many of which are reflected in this white paper.
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Where to Start with Interactive E-Reports
NTEN
AUGUST 23, 2010
Calibre : Calibre is an e-book management tool that also converts documents into a number of e-book formats. Last but not least, it was also mentioned that your organization could create something in InDesign and convert that document into an interactive PDF. You can then foward the link or embed the material.
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57 The Content Curation Issue: NTEN:Change Six is Live
NTEN
JUNE 7, 2012
Case Study: Pinterest for Program Planning," documenting one museum's application of Pinterest to meet internal program and project planning needs. As well as content from the experts at Creative Commons , the NTEN community, a podcast from the CTK Foundation , and. An Interview with ASPCAPro's Pune Dracker on Content Curation.
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The Questions Every Nonprofit Should Ask About Sensitive Data
NTEN
APRIL 28, 2010
Also make sure you capture the formats in which the information is stored, including paper documents. Lastly, make certain those locations employ some access control measure such as a locked door or cabinet for mobile media and paper documents, or logical access controls such as network folder or file permissions.
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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network
NTEN
JUNE 10, 2011
Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. commenting on any item.
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How-to: DIY Community and Content Mapping
NTEN
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here! Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program. A note about DIY.
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75 Calling All Nonprofits: Its Time for a Privacy Upgrade
NTEN
APRIL 28, 2010
We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Documents and information is increasingly stored online. Tags: Advocacy Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.
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55 The Social Sector Cloud
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.
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65 The Social Sector Cloud
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. on our own servers or desktops.
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61 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. The social media team maintains an internal document within its shared Google Drive folder called the “NYCEAC Internal Resource List.” The resource list is really the “go to document for all things online.”
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Things We Like (February 2011)
NTEN
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Wait, you read the NTEN blog. Upload your documents to DocumentCloud to learn more about what you just wrote. The NTEN community can save $50 on the National Conference for Media Reform , taking place in Boston, April 8-10, with the code NTEN_NCMR. And have we mentioned that the Online NTC is only $150 for NTEN Members ?)
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How-to: Use Twitter to Engage Your Audience
NTEN
OCTOBER 8, 2010
We make sure that we spend part of our time each day on Twitter, or catching up on our RSS feeds, to check out the conversation and learn from the people and organizations that we're following (including lots of NTEN folks). Tags: how-to NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Make it known.
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76 Five Tech Tips for Every Executive Director
NTEN
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
I can also email a link to the file to anyone else, like a collaborator on the document or a staff member that needs a copy. As part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month, we'll pick a commenter at random to win a very special prize! I save all my presentations into Dropbox, so I can download and edit them on any computer or tablet.
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Is Web Accessibility a Social Responsibility?
NTEN
JULY 28, 2010
Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites.
10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads
NTEN
MARCH 19, 2010
This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Are you a 501c3 who will be visiting us at NTEN? Lots of prizes.
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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads
NTEN
MARCH 19, 2010
This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Are you a 501c3 who will be visiting us at NTEN? Lots of prizes.
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