Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Our donor partners are sharing the love too! As you stroll through the Science Fair, look for TechSoup sign s identifying our donor partners. Join us at 600 Congress Avenue, 24 th floor (between 6 th and 7 th Streets) for Free Drinks , fiesta food, music, prizes, mustache photos, ping pong, and more. NTC logo: NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

For instance, I’m reading the book, Made to Stick , and this week’s post by Jeff at Donor Power talks about taglines that organizations use – how they make internal sense, but don’t make sense to people outside. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. I wholeheartedly agree. Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

Every year I look forward to one very special conference - the NTC conference organized by the awesome NTEN team. This translates into thousands of organizations with similar names and missions competing for advocacy, donor, and foundation support. Dance the night away to 80''s music by DJ Tea Jay, complimentary food, and drinks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. Time will tell. {

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

All alone, by itself, it's a useful and important part of the ecosystem of services that help donors make choices about the Internet. The problem, in Perla's mind, was that the average donor would still have to spend additional time finding her site to get the information. The idea was solid and the service is great.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Join us and hundreds of fundraising and marketing professionals at the Washington Nonprofit Conference, a two-day event where you will exchange innovative marketing and fundraising ideas, generate insightful solutions and think creatively to help you make the relationship with your donors even stronger. NTEN / Portland, OR / $899.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Join us and hundreds of fundraising and marketing professionals at the Washington Nonprofit Conference, a two-day event where you will exchange innovative marketing and fundraising ideas, generate insightful solutions and think creatively to help you make the relationship with your donors even stronger. NTEN / Washington, DC / $899.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I also tend to think that while the paradigms differ, a donor, a member, a constituent in the end is not that different in terms of business processes from a client or customer. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Would this help: 1) gain donors? And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? 2) communicate the message? 3) keep stakeholders informed?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

During this time, we need to get creative in ways to reach and engage our donors, as well as raise income, when we can’t physically host an event. With CauseVox it’s easy to turn your current campaigns and appeals into peer to peer fundraisers by encouraging your donors to set up their own online fundraising pages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

If you have an email list captured by one application, a donor list captured by another, a social network in another, and you give them all equal “weight,&# then you’re asking for trouble. The key, I think, is to make sure that one repository of data rules them all.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Donor relations. Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Donor Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. She reads 4 blogs a day, five hours a week. The median mom blog reader is a 29 year old woman with an annual family income of $70,000, reading 5 blogs a day for 4 hours a week.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These things play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, and set alarms. GuideStar launched gold and platinum tiers this year so charities have much more opportunity to make their performance case to donors and funders. Good job, NTEN community! Don't forget Google Home and Apple HomeKit.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. As you dive deep into the world of storytelling and connecting with donors, we also want you to have a great time and feel inspired when you leave. 11/10/2016.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2009

Technology is a big part of "overhead" It's the music program of the nonprofit industry, the first to get cut and the last to be reinstated. Donors also want all of their donation to go straight to programs. Tags: fuding itstaffing NPTech NTEN spending ssir. Somehow, effective has become synonymous with low overhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I listened to music to get into a meditative state. But another reason I set that low goal was because the Causes birthday wish software did not give me the flexibility of setting a goal without attaching it to a gift amount and number of donors. NTEN's Holly Ross's Birthday Blog Post. I did not eat chocolate. Conversion Rate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

" There is no question that technology in general has created sea changes in the ways in which organizations get and use information, reach donors and constituents, create campaigns, etc. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

And the concept is one that is increasingly prevalent: donors get to choose exactly where there money goes, and there is some competition between worthy projects. What happened to our school system that an organization is formed to provide a place for thousands (yes, thousands ) of projects for school kids? So they can learn.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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