NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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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. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We need systems for sharing our effectiveness data, and it has to be public.

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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. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We need systems for sharing our effectiveness data, and it has to be public.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Sign up for the event or learn more here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2010

Flickr Photo: Lawrence OP A couple of years ago, I talked to Ed Granger-Happ about his philosophy for running the IT shop at Save the Children. years I've been at NTEN. Tags: Change Management do something george weiner NPTech NTEN IT Staff. To me, that makes Ed a hero. . But I've met very few with Ed's point of view.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. We also ask people to share personal messages though initiatives like Facing AIDS for World AIDS Day (December 1), where people can submit photos to a Flickr group that say why they are facing AIDS. Make it known.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

flickr: Brit. And now, dear readers, NTEN will respond. In doing so, he leaves no room for the discussion of other types of systems or power structures. Tags: activism Advocacy Collaboration Malcom Gladwell NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. No, it's not the newspaper. John came up with on the echoditto blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. There's even a bacon bra on Flickr, but you'll have to search for that yourself. Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. Yeah, you kinda have to see it in action to understand. We're not sure if it's helpful, but it is really cool looking.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by lodev. Tags: virualization peter campbell NPTech NTEN server. Wiktionary states that to virtualize is: to run a program in virtual storage; to simulate (or make virtual) some effect or condition on a computer; or. to make or conform to a virtual reality. > Learn More and Register Today!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I’ll be posting pics to flickr, for sure! { It will be my first international open source event, and it’s an amazingly interesting topic. So I am so excited to be going. I have been tasked to be “use case librarian&# which is very cool, since I am a real fan of use cases.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc. You can also use it as a blog editor, which I am going to start trying out. It’s amazingly good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is a good sign that things are going in the right direction. I’ll keep you posted, for sure. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2011

flickr: dnnya17 A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2010

Flickr: mi.chael If you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater. Tags: charlene li facebook JetBlue NPTech NTEN open leadership Social Media Steven Slater Communications. We would all do well to remember that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. Until recently, the main way to deal with this was cumbersome import and export of data from one system to another. Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Green Moon Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems. Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN Open Source peguin day. Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. and Drupal.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. Hard to use.

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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

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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. Tracking the second part is harder, but we can create systems to at least approximate where new supporters come from. Or, you can build your own glasses. social media.

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. It's this month's topic here at NTEN (and you should subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive the compiled "best of" version of these articles later this week). From the article: ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

When can I create a FB event from a remote system? If you mean mobile phone by "remote system" - there are different apps that let you do that. More of my photos and videos on Flickr. 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. James Young).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, I’m trying out some new themes soon. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 3 KJ 08.09.07

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. The photos and video coming out of the region are awe inspiring and scary. Our hearts go out to the people of Japan. Data emerged as the most important asset to any disaster response.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. You can only gather "wins" - and both qualitative and quantitative ones if you've set up your hard data tracking system and also gathering qualitative information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. at 4:51 pm Brilliant write-up, Michelle — and thanks for being not only the author of the NTEN White Paper but also a fellow board member!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. And, yet another login and password. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2010

Too many people fear their website redesign or implementation projects, especially in the relatively unknown realm of Open Source CMS systems. Flickr - heathergm. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? . Website - [link]. Twitter – @hgm.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. There's lots of examples in this blog. The Case Study.

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