Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This post originally appeared on NTEN's blog. In this age of unfettered access and crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site like delicious.com. New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Joistke tagged me with the 4x4 game activity. Full Circle Blog Netsquared Nten Blog Blogher. 4 People I tag. And, no, Joistke, I haven't done this before. So, here goes. 4 places I lived: Atlantic City, NY Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, MA Bennington, VT. 4 Web sites I visit regularly. So, here goes. 4 Web sites I visit regularly.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying NTC is just days away!

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Sound advice on how to evaluate which tech projects need to be done the exact same way that a for-profit would and which ones can be done creatively, with a deep dive into what “creatively” means. Tags: liveblogging 09ntc it planning strategy.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills. It seems we have a battle to undertake on many fronts: Helping nonprofits with their evaluation skills.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills. It seems we have a battle to undertake on many fronts: Helping nonprofits with their evaluation skills.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important. It’s definitely worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

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 !) So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. And if you???re

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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. You can learn more about web accessibility, including guidelines for implementation, at [link].

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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. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). 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." In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community. Tags: ROI. View more presentations from kanter.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2010

Mark Becker, Cathexis Partners Here at NTEN, we run this little event every year, the Nonprofit Technology Conference. And we were doubly pleased because the session focuses on data and data evaluation as a means to making it happen. Tags: 10NTC cathexis Data mark becker Program.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2014

In the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, we disucss the pyschology of fundraising. Some people may find it easier to focus their fundraising pitches on social media and tag people directly. The endurance event stats are not suprising. Does it work? Ask people on both channels.

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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

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

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

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). Optimizing.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? tagging capabilities to keep things organized. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. Tags: training materials.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Thanks again to Allyson Kapin and the Women Who Tech team, as well as all those at NTEN who made the webinars happen!

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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. Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Register now!

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Register now!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Tags: Information Coping Skills. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. Take Breaks.

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