NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. Do you have other tips on evaluating new technologies for nonprofit techies? Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. In this age of unfettered access and. like delicious.com. While the community’s viewpoint. own, more informed, opinion.

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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. If you're like us, you're tracking your open and your click through rates, but you're not really sure what they are telling you.

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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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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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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

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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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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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.

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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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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

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. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? rating items.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites. After all, an accessible site is more user-friendly for everyone who visits the site. That experience should be positive and pleasant, inspiring trust rather than generating frustration.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Data member news Member Round Up nptech' Register now! Let us know in the comments.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Once you've got that figured out, evaluate how your audience is likely to receive that information. Tags: annual reports Calibre CMS e-books Issuu NPTech NTEN Prezi Yudu Communications. Luckily, the group was quick to respond with resources, reviews, and examples. Here are some instructions on how to do that.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Data member news Member Round Up nptech' Register now! Let us know in the comments.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2009

The information is divided into two reports—the actual Consumers Guide , which provides summaries and recommendations across all 33 of the systems we reviewed, and the Detailed Reviews , which provide the detailed evaluations of twelve specific systems. Tags: CRM Fundraising idealware NPTech.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2009

Evaluating your Email Marketing Efforts for Success (4/2/2009). We're thrilled to have Jocelyn Harmon, NTEN member and writer of the blog Marketing for Nonprofits , curating the series. Tags: NPTech NTEN jocelyn harmon webinar. Storytelling via Email (3/26/2009).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team. Current Trends.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2009

Evaluating. Series Cost: $100 for NTEN Members, $200 for non-members. Series Cost: $100 for NTEN Members, $200 for non-members. Individual Webinars: $30 for NTEN Members, $60 for. " Tags: adwords Fundraising google grants NPTech NTEN. Goals and Setting Yourself Up for Success (6/5/2009).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Now’s the time to take advantage of the opportunity to put in place an intensive evaluation process that will allow your fundraising, marketing, and communications programs to function at the highest degree of efficiency and effectiveness. Tags: mal warwick NPTech NTEN Planning Fundraising.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. Tags: email jeff patrick measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Try to evaluate your expertise objectively: do other people perceive you as an expert? Tags: Leadership Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission NPTech NTEN Planning. Since expertise doesn’t happen overnight, you can gradually work to build – and demonstrate – your expertise in your organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Security IT Staff. What sensitive data do you collect from your donors? Appropriate destruction methods such as shredding, burning, pulverizing, or melting should be employed to dispose of sensitive data.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Those of us who collect data in low resource areas continue to evaluate technology’s role in finding the proper solution(s) for collecting data. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. The cost of some technology tools and solutions has gone down. More and more people are comfortable using the tools.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. More modern and of a higher quality than comparable on-premise solutions.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

The entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges and may be recognized at the festival which is scheduled to take place on July 31 in Austin, Texas. Tags: Advocacy event nonprofit technology NPTech video. All proceeds from the festival will be donated to the organization that is the subject of the winning film.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

NTEN reports in Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report , "Staffing and budgets for nonprofit social network projects -- on commercial social networks -- are real but small, with four-fifths of nonprofit survey respondents committing at least one-quarter of a full-time staff person to these efforts. " Is it a good use of funds?

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

The next easiest way to reduce IT costs is to evaluate current IT processes and adjust where you can to save money. Then, evaluate joint IT/Business processes. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. So we're in a position of power when it comes to contract negotation. IT is not a cost center.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

First, evaluate your assets and think about where your resources are best invested. Tags: jaime-alexis fowler Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Now we've launched a new microsite, www.girl2woman.org , that is built entirely around videos -- and most importantly -- sharing them.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. More modern and of a higher quality than comparable on-premise solutions.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Many programs, when evaluated, have been shown to be ineffective or have negative outcomes. There are some key elements to look for when your organization is ready to evaluate a performance management data system. Evaluate how easy the technology is to learn and how intuitive it is to navigate. Evaluate the system's security.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

, within a year social investors will be able to use our website to not only ascertain whether a certain charity is a fiscally sound and meets basic standards of transparency and accountability, but also we will evaluate the organizations effectiveness and results. . Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. While clever, our solutions could simply not overcome the maddening math nor achieve the requisite access levels to scale.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000.

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