Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. It may seem like so much fun to round up friends and record a video about why you are all so passionate about a cause, then edit it with catchy backgound music and effects, and post it on YouTube. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ].

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APRIL 27, 2012

Flickr: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology We're still catching our breath from the NTC earlier this month, but the nonprofit technology community is as active as ever this week! Learn more about these stories and all the ways NTEN Members are amping up the awesome. Check out the campaign’s use of Flickr and Tumblr !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. It isn??????t

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Flickr: hellojenuine Member Appreciation Month, or MAM, as we affectionately refer to it around NTEN HQ, got off to a strong start last week with some great free for Members events, lots of #NTENThanks sharing, and of course, prizes! Tis the Season to go Mobile: Fundraising On-the-Go. Successfully Engaging Volunteers on Tech Projects.

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MARCH 28, 2011

Artez Interactive For Fun Did you miss Rob Cottingham's cartoon coverage of the conference? And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2009

Will you be at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference April 26-28 in San Francisco? Just go to www.nten.org/ntc-live to find out how to follow along on Twitter and Flickr, and for information about the webinars, streaming video, and liveblogging happening during the event. I hope you'll stop by if you're at the conference.

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MAY 2, 2012

Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Michael DeLong. NTEN Trends, Cloud Reality, & More , Matthew Eshleman. Social goldmine: NTEN's crowdsourced conference notes , Denise Graveline. Session Blog Posts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

One aspect of the campaign is a Starbucks Flickr petition. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. flickr petition coffee fair trade oxfam Supporters have uploaded photos of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian farmers." So far, 186 photos have been posted.

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MARCH 6, 2012

poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. NTEN is hosting the Nonprofit Technology Poetry Slam at SXSW. Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ). We can't wait!

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Flickr: Amanda_SG Even though it's been unseasonably warm in the northeast where I am, I feel completely immersed in the Thanksgiving spirit. I'm thankful for NTEN members every day of the year, of course, so it's fun for me to be able to spend each day in November expressing that gratitude with prizes and free stuff for you all.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. The folks at Idealist recently shared their obsession with drawing the actor Nicolas Cage in their post, Doodling Nicolas Cage: How we keep work fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Don't forget to upload all your NTC photos to Flickr and tag them "08NTC" - and then visit the online photo album. Looking forward to having fun in New Orleans! With so much on the agenda for the NTC, here's how you can add it to your favorite calendar. Find out more.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Flickr Credit: obLiterated On the one hand, I've had a lot of fun giving stuff away and talking about how great NTEN members are these past few weeks. Today I get to give away a 2009 Season Pass for NTEN webinars ! . This means Lisa gets to attend as many NTEN webinars as she wants between now and 12/31/2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

All this week for NTEN's WeAreMedia project, we've been focusing on the tools that let nonprofits share their story social media style!   I've been a big fan of flickr and a collected many nonprofit examples and add-on tools for flickr over the past three or four years since I've been a flickr addict. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! These projects don't require deep technical expertise and are always a lot of fun. Michaela Hackner , a talented photographer, was on hand to document the Day of Service on Flickr.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Need evidence: this photo of Net2 organizers Mel Findlater, Stephen Blyth, Jeremy Foreman, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Roshani Kothari, and NTEN’s Megan Keane was taken in Washington, DC during 14NTC. So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the fun. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

Flickr Photo: RXAPhoto Last week, I received a nice email from Wes Trochlil at Effective Database Management. What's your advice to NTEN members? All commenters will receive a fun prize pack from NTEN! Many moons ago, Wes helped us select our association management software.

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MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. Along the way, we make it fun. Tags: 09NTC awards NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Used strategically, retweets can be a simple way to share useful/fun/relevant information and promote conversation at the same time. See pictures on our Flickr stream”.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. By Jamie Millard and Lori L. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. " I'm beginning a project with NTEN in the next few weeks that focuses on social media, nonprofits, and curriculum development. Human Elements: Trust and Fun matter. Quote from Beth Novek, "Fun matters. And you do that making things fun."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Flickr Credit: wednesday181 Wow. I've had fun recognizing NTEN Members for their dedication to their work and this professional community. Today I get to give a complimentary conference registration to an NTEN member, just for being a member: Molly Mayfield Barbee , come on down! Giving away free stuff was nice, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. The topic is how to do have fun and do good! Fundraising 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us So we’ll see how it works.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2009

Flickr Photo: maher berro But we're glad you did! Thank you, for coming together again in record numbers, and for all that you do every day to support our NTEN community, and your communities at home. I also need to take a moment to thank the amazing team here at NTEN headquarters.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Flickr Photo: Natassia A Davis I spent some time at SXSW this weekend, hanging with my NPTech peeps. It's been so much fun letting folks know they can attend the conference -- a real highlight for me. . Tags: scholarships beyonce NPTech NTEN 09NTC. But more on that later -- though I did get one video.) Other questions?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 3 KJ 08.09.07

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JULY 15, 2010

Flickr photo: Brigitte Let me start by saying that I love the phrase "accidental techie." " It's fun to say -- and, in the early part of this century, it was the only way we could describe the growing legion of people who suddenly found themselves mastering a new vocabulary of acronyms: LAN, ISP, RAM, CPU, CRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. I’m trying out some new themes soon. {

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JUNE 11, 2010

Flickr photo: Chris.Corwin Nothing gets done without leadership. Together, the NTEN community is going to make those proverbial thousand flowers bloom. We hope that we'll be able to inspire and inform you, but also have a little fun. Leaders are the ones who find the peaks we need to climb amongst those clouds.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Flickr Photo: Dunechaser I'm shovelling my way out of both snow and email this week. . The email in-box project has also been surprisingly fun: I found quite a few tidbits -- or this n'at , as Pittsurghers would say -- worth sharing. I had heard of these guys before, but finally signed up for a sample analysis of the NTEN community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2008

NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup host webinars that will answer many of your burning nonprofit and technology questions! They could be a fun way to do trainings for volunteers, fundraiser table captains, house party hosts, and concerned citizens who want to learn more about the issues you are working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

This week in NTEN 's Nonprofit Blogging Affinity Group , a new member asked for a list of nonprofit blogs. Fund for UNICEF Urban Sprouts Women for Women International F ull disclosure: I am volunteering as a nonprofit blogging and podcasting expert this fall for NTEN's Office Hours. nonprofit blog.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. That can make it difficult to navigate. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. I shared the story about the American Stroke Association's use of Twitter as a listening tool.

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