NTEN

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Flickr: Julia Folsom As the clear skies of autumn give way to winter's moody precipitates here in Portland, Oregon, we can feel cozier by staying connected to our communities. GreatNonprofits announced the launch of its "community-sourced" Top-Rated Awards. Claim or update your nonprofit and invite reviews to participate.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nikka Melt Every year, after we've had a chance to take a post-NTC breather, we pull together some of the best-rated sessions from the NTC and turn them into webinars. . Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN. Check out the line-up: Best of NTC: Mobile Giving Works, Learn How - August 5.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Then, in December, some of the sector's top rating agencies, including Guidestar and Charity Navigator , agreed that a new measure is needed.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2010

Flickr photo by Giorgio Montersino You probably already know many of the advantages of working virtually: no commute (saving money, time, and the environment), fewer office space requirements, improved morale, or maybe even an office on the beach. and we hope you takeadvantage !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. NTEN has also used a similar crowdsourcing techniques to shape the NTC conference agenda. Internal Brainstorm: The team held a brainstorming session to identify topics and ideas that has been highly rated at past conferences. The call goes out to people to design sessions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Then, in December, some of the sector's top rating agencies, including Guidestar and Charity Navigator , agreed that a new measure is needed.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Flickr: theirhistory Summer sun and vacation days haven''t slowed down the NTEN community! This edition of Member Round Up shows folks busy doing research, releasing reports, and unveiling a new community platform to help nptechies connect and learn. Miss out on #GivingTuesday last year, but considering participating for 2014?

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: nasmac You probably know that Google Grants gives out free AdWords accounts to nonprofits. Tags: advertising google grants NPTech NTEN. If you're already past this stage, we also have an Advanced AdWords series coming up in June. And, while polar bears look cuddly, but I wouldn't recommend trying to hug one.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2009

Flickr Photo: maher berro But we're glad you did! At this rate, we're poised to host the biggest NTC ever - more than 1200 people - in a time when many conferences are seeing double-digit declines in registration. I also need to take a moment to thank the amazing team here at NTEN headquarters.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: zadro. Beth Kanter and NTEN have spent almost a whole year working on the We Are Media project, and we've learned a few important things. We know what our open and response rates typically are and use them to determine which efforts are working to mobilize our base, and which are not. social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

What is Facebook's burn rate? I am not sure what a burn rate is - if you can define, I'd be happy to see if I can share the information. More of my photos and videos on Flickr. The big barrier right now is privacy issues, but our product team is hard at work on improvements. Allan Benamer). James Young).

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Flickr Photo: mfilej I've spent most of the last three months on airplanes, so I'm a little behind the times here, but I still want to talk a bit about a report released this Fall, "When Did We Start Trusting Strangers?" " (We're guilty of it at NTEN, too: see the NTC agenda as evidence!). It's a bit of a misnomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. It's essential that they hear from us.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. rating items. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. That can make it difficult to navigate. commenting on any item.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: Voetmann Personally, I like New Year's resolutions. Here are the resolutions I have for NTEN: 1. NTEN will experiment with widgets, Facebook, and a few other things this year. There's no need to treat your web stats or email open rates like the recipe for Coca-Cola. Sure, they're kind of cheesy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. Open rates and click-throughs are holding steady.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? for his blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. How do they rate your organization and other service organizations in town? Kindergarten used to be less about academics and more about the socialization kids need to survive in school. Things have changed – don't get me started, my daughter is in kindergarten – but the socialization part is still there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. Key Report #6: Site Bounce Rate The Bounce Rate report reveals the number of visitors who stayed just a few seconds. In short, your bounce rate is your failure rate. What does the IT department do? -

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. They would much rather keep you as a paying cutomer at 85% of your current rate than lose you altogether. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? We're tracking open rates, web site hits, blog comments, people served, high-dollar donations, staff productivity, and thousands of other things across our organizations. 16% retention rate . You have to give as good as you get. It's feast or famine.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. Forum One's Facebook Page. click to enlarge).

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

And speaking of images, we want to allow people to add notes like Flickr does. Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter. Managing Technology To Meet Your Mission Book from NTEN will be published in 2009. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2007

Just finished the flickr session. I am having lots of computer/Internet access issues and am now able to find this photo via Chris - who was a able to post to flickr! Most of the people in the room are folks who aren't participating in the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group and were new to flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Technorati ???Authority???

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Flickr photo: Dom de Oliveira If you've ever implemented a technology project at a nonprofit, you know it's true: technology is 90% psychology. In the last decade, poverty rates in the Midwest did not increase incrementally, they DOUBLED. Success rarely hinges on the hardware and the software; technology hinges on the humans involved.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Obviously NTEN can't fit in all these great panels in three days, so if I had to pick my top 10 favorite sessions, they would be – drum roll please: 1. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. Editor's Note: Nonprofits can learn a lot about mutli-channel events from this session.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

At the rate memory capacity of devices are increasing, in a couple of years we will have an iPhone which would hold 256GB of data. An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Well, less than 24 hours after the camera of was in the hands of the activists from Common Knowledge, I received this comment on the Flickr photo of my camera from Karen Apricot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" want to waste some time. don't click here. UPDATE: Okay, so that's the bleeding edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. What is the rate of change your organization can tolerate? Sony Bolsters Web Presence with Social Networking Features by PR Week. Culture Change.

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