NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we do every year after the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we reviewed evaluations, debriefed the entire conference as a team, and brought ideas to our various committees to help us plan an even better event the next time. Topic suggestions will open in February. Learn what all of our excitement is about: Community Conversations.

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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

APRIL 1, 2009

And tomorrow, we'll close the series with a webinar on evaluation of your email marketing. . 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. Tags: blue state digital email marketing jocelyn harmon NPTech NTEN. > Learn More and Register Now!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined this quarter''s NTEN Town Hall! I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. NTEN Update NTEN staff met in Portland for our winter staff meetings earlier in January. We call it the "rain drops".)

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. But we explained that we can’t evaluate tech options like a new CRM without first knowing what they needed to accomplish with the technology.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

Evaluating and determining what barriers your organization’s volunteer programs have and then working to break them down is a solid first step in attracting and retaining a more diverse and welcoming volunteer workforce. The post 5 Ideas for Developing More Inclusive Volunteer Management appeared first on NTEN.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2013

For my first NTC, everything I''ve heard about the NTEN community was spot on. Caring, stylish , open, direct , funny, warm, outspoken, sporting , innovative with solutions on the fly , and coffee-lovin'' were just a few of the adjectives that flew around the Hilton Minneapolis, through the miles of skyways, and over social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2007

Michelle Murrain has set up a new NTEN Affinity Group called Open Content Business Models. The description: There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology community about open content. Open content is content (papers, articles, presentations, graphics, etc.) t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. In 2020, tech nonprofit NTEN announced that they were pulling their advertising from Facebook due to its data-collection and content-moderation policies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

When professionals acknowledge not knowing and reach out to a colleague, it not only opens us to learning, but it signals to others. Using social media and networked approaches successfully requires a culture shift away from learning in private to learning public or what Nancy White has called “ Over the Shoulder Learning.&#.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When the lockdown happened, we found ourselves momentarily in the air, waiting for our parachutes to open. As I evaluated our content and the possibilities for growth, I could feel the wheels starting to move beneath me again. The post An Unlikely Story of Digital Success in 2020 appeared first on NTEN. Keep on asking.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

While there are always lessons to be learned as we gather feedback—through evaluations, emails, and conversations with members of the Community (yup, we really do read them all)—we wanted to take a moment to share some of the highlights. We will be sharing these in blog posts and free webinars prior to opening up submissions.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Every year NTEN uses a community-driven process to develop the agenda. Voting is open to everyone and ends October 25th, so be sure to mark your favorites now! We’ll share benchmarks from other nonprofits you can use to evaluate your own communication. Go ahead and vote on the sessions you’d love to see at the conference.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Flickr:Andy Field We’re officially six days into the new year, and the NTEN office is bustling with productivity. In the first week of the new year, NTEN members are already hosting free events, saving a domain, and even blogging about robots! But, in the next year, the Internet is opening up to allow for new Internet extensions.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. I’m looking forward to it. I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye. Be Helpful.

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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. Open Rate : The percentage of recipients who opened your email.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

As Holly wrote in the #NTCFail blog post outlining the things that didn’t go as planned at the event, we value being open and accountable at NTEN. These quotes and the rest found in this post are from the NTC evaluation.) We didn’t realize quite the risk we took booking the Extra Action Marching Band to open the NTC, though.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

With just two weeks until the event, MobileCause (the co-host of Innogive) has decided to extend this deal to the NTEN community and enable 50 additional nonprofits the chance to attend the conference for just $99. Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied.

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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

We like to live by ours, which include being accountable to you, and being open and transparent. One of the most common complaints on session evaluations is that the session was to basic or too complicated, or that they came prepared for a lecture, but got a discussion. We're big on values around here. NTCFail 1: Cultural References.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Many nonprofits have evaluated this group on the thinness of their wallet and written them off. The points are eye opening and shatter many misconceptions about how to engage this generation. What causes are missing is that this is the most passionate, most connected group of fundraisers yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2009

So, the question continues to be: "How can I get my message to stick out and be opened in a cluttered inbox ?" 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. to get success stories.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

In the " 2010 Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey Report ", we found that only 40% of respondents had a formal technology plan -- and only 22% had ever evaluated their return on investment from technology projects. This will be the last time the Leadership Academy is offered in 2011.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . Certainly there were concerns initially, and there are limits to how open we can be. What does it feel like to be an open institution? It's work, but overall feels really good.

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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? Be Helpful.

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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? Be Helpful.

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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. I’d like to do more of all of it.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. If you open up comments to all users, you are going to get spammers. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations -- whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs -- and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much. Cheaper Start-Up Costs.

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