Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. That's why I'm so happy to see the well-written article that Ali posted on the NTEN blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector? How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems. I can bridge the gap between technology vendors and clients in a way that is pretty unusual, and, honestly, that I’m proud of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. I blogged about the content last week. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

My point is that companies like Microsoft have almost nothing to do with providing good software — the marginal gain from selling better software is miniscule in comparison with the potential income from spreading some FUD and reaping the benefits as everyone re-evaluates their risk positions. 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at. I’m creating a new practice, called MetaCentric Techology Advising.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Also, when the range of your security evaluations extends from “good&# to “excellent&# without characterizing what’s worse than “good,&# I don’t have any alternative but to treat “good&# as the worst on your spectrum. .]&# In the context of your report, I probably could have said “notably worse.&#

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. Forum One's Facebook Page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw.

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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. Well, we're bad at evaluating, for one thing. of respondents to the 2008 IT Staffing Survey evaluated the technology projects they completed that year. Why don't we do this math?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. NTEN / Washington, DC / $850.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. The previous sentence is a clumsy attempt to use langage from both parties in the conversation.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Join the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and Nonprofits Assistance Fund for this fifth annual day-long conference will offer insights, strategies and tools for staff and board members looking at your organization’s financial sustainability from diverse perspectives – from strategy and oversight to implementation and evaluation. Mar 9 - 11.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first jobs in tech 1,000 years ago was as “Text Production Lead” on a music encyclopedia CD-ROM (Google it, kids). Each equation, and each program, is continually evaluated and improved. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work.

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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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