NTEN

MARCH 4, 2014

It is with excitement that I announce these new additions to the NTEN family. First, a new face on the NTEN staff, with Bethany Lister, our new Community Program Coordinator. If you have ideas about how NTEN could better deliver programs to help you and your staff, Bethany and the whole team would love to hear from you.)

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Data evaluation Leadership Nell Edgington nptech nten social velocity Strategy success Program' If each nonprofit organization is now creating their own theory of change, and their own outcome and impact measurements, how do we compare those to another nonprofit’s outcome and impact measures?

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

But how can donors evaluate whether or not a charity will ultimately deliver on their promise or mission? evaluation Leadership nptech nten overhead Richard Larkin Fundraising Program' Making outcome information readily available to donors can make the decision to donate easier.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. NTEN Programs are growing and so is the Program Team to support it. So, I'm thrilled to announce a job opening for NTEN’s Educational Program Manager.

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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. If you’re holding regular events gathering the #nptech community let me know and I’ll include you in the next community calendar! Naples, FL: How to Evaluate your Social Media Campaigns.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2014

14ntc data Data data viz nptech nten Strategy Communications' Emery, Andrew Means, and Johanna Morariu. Innovation Network.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Time is a luxury we don't have in our line of work -- which is why I think so many of us resist evaluation. Evaluation helps us do our work better, and we all want to do our work better. Why would you reflect on how you feed people when you could just go feed people? Of course, we know better.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month? Community local events nten'

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JUNE 13, 2012

Thanks to a scholarship from NTEN, I was given the opportunity to fly to Sydney to attend the ConnectingUp! Thank you once again to NTEN for providing me with this incredible professional development opportunity. She also is responsible for the NTEN Toronto Tech Club and holds a diploma in Computer Programming and Analysis from St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. "We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). NpTech Software. This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2014

There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month?

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2009

And tomorrow, we'll close the series with a webinar on evaluation of your email marketing. . Tags: blue state digital email marketing jocelyn harmon NPTech NTEN. We have learned how to get to know our online stakeholders, tactics for gaining more online donors, members, and advocates, and how to use email to tell our stories.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

On the Google Grants team, we receive a lot of questions from grantees on how best to evaluate their AdWords performance. We put this article together to give guidance around monitoring and evaluating your Google Grants account using a few strategies we find valuable. We hope you do, too! . Let's get started. Quality Score.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Do you have other tips on evaluating new technologies for nonprofit techies? Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. TechSoup's Nonprofit Technology and Total Cost of Ownership talks more on the factors in understanding. story on how a new technology worked or didn't Share it with us in the comments.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The NTEN community finds strength in numbers -- and that starts with you. As the force that defined the field of nonprofit technology, NTEN supports not only its thousands of members, but countless others in the nonprofit sector. The NTEN Research Program is a vital resource for nonprofits using technology to meet their missions.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Teaser: The NTEN community finds strength in numbers -- and that starts with you. As the force that defined the field of nonprofit technology, NTEN supports not only its thousands of members, but countless others in the nonprofit sector. Support the NTEN Research Program by making a tax-deductible donation today.

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

NTC taught me how to focus and evaluate our social media work, how to develop that into a set of actions, and how best to carry them out. Donate online or TEXT "NTEN" to 25383 to donate $10 and nominate your scholarship attendee now! 13ntc 14ntc Community nptech nten scholarship campaign Program'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. " The responses come in, ranging from specific tools to directories or resources that have lists and evaluations of tools. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. NTEN member Sean Watson brought up his concern about the lack of staffing around, and interest in, "business processes" in most nonprofit organizations. Don't just use spreadsheets, use pictures. of people, even.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Two items grabbed from the NTEN Blog. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Chris Brogan is doing an expert session over at NTEN. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

NTC taught me how to focus and evaluate our social media work, how to develop that into a set of actions, and how best to carry them out. Donate online or TEXT "NTEN" to 25383 to donate $10 and nominate your scholarship attendee now! 13ntc 14ntc Community nptech nten scholarship campaign Program'

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. Why don’t we hear “I’m not an accountant” or “I’m not an expert in evaluation” or “I’m not an expert in governance”? CEO and Co-Founder. Confluence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

(executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. Why don’t we hear “I’m not an accountant” or “I’m not an expert in evaluation” or “I’m not an expert in governance”? CEO and Co-Founder. Confluence.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2010

To help them cast an analytical eye on technology decisions, NTEN and The NonProfit Times came together to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey. It gives us a good look at the state of nonprofit staffing, and helps us provide organizations with information to help evaluate the state of their IT spending. >

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. On a daily basis we listen, we connect, we share, and we evaluate -- all steps in a solid social media plan. It's necessary to have a place to document and track the evaluation of our experiments. What makes it official?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. NTC is just days away! There's also dogooder.tv

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The infographic below (you'll want to view the whole thing) connects the dots between some specific actions – like having a technology plan, evaluating the ROI of technology projects, and investing in training for staff – and overall organizational effectiveness when it come to managing technology for your mission.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

After some good conversations with NTEN Members and consultants who have their heads in these systems, we began thinking about the links -- or the missing ones -- between the different systems nonprofits use to track any number of tasks on a daily basis. . Tags: CMS CRM data ecosystem dms NPTech NTEN. Managing Volunteers.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. " The good news is that organizations like NTEN are helping nonprofit professionals learn about, evaluate and adopt technology that can make you more efficient and effective.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2012

NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more. > Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly "IT") Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. However, only 7% are evaluating ROI rigorously or regularly. >

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2009

NTEN partnered with the NonProfit Times on this survey to offer a closer look at the current state of nonprofit IT staffing in general, and to give organizations the information they need to evaluate and improve their own IT staffing. Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN reports. > Get the Report.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2011

Connect with NTEN on Twitter by following @NTENorg. The Twitter stream is pulled directly into myNTC, our online conference community, so you can participate there too: Participate in myNTC When you’re at #11NTC, use these hashtags to evaluate each session. There are 2 ways to evaluate a session: Text the Evaluation Code to 69866.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) What do you think?

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