Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Washington, DC: DC Real Estate 2.0 - Leveraging Online Tools, Creating Community. Image adapted from Happiness is an ice cream cone as big as my head , creative commons licensed on Flickr. With meetups in 50 cities there’s probably an event near you! Tuesday, July 16. Denver, CO: Is Your Website User-Friendly?

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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. Washington, DC: Happy Hour: Celebrate Spring & Tech. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr. See you soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C., This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Meg Biallas is a Communications Associate with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in Washington, D.C. She blogs about social media on her personal blog , Meg Goes To Washington. ). It was a fantastic laboratory to explore the power of peer learning and the right mix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. Andrew Knight and Markus Baer of Washington University conducted a study on stand-up meetings versus sit-down meetings , rating the ability of participants to work together, share ideas, and produce quality work. How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. Meg Biallas is a Communications Associate with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in Washington, D.C. She blogs about social media on her personal blog , Meg Goes To Washington. ). This post was originally published here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft partnered with Facebook and Washington State to develop the MyVote Facebook app. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Youth APPLab is a Washington, DC-based organization that helps high school students build their own Android apps.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2012

Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. If you're in the Washington, DC area, the early bird registration rate for the AgileDC 2012 conference expires September 1.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. If you’re an organization that’s looking to analyze and visualize data about your work, or needs assistance in using data to further your mission, then you should apply to be part of the Washington D.C. Change.org was featured in the Washington Post for being an influential advocate on issues from bullying to bank fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. It’s almost Spring and a thousand theories of change are blooming like the cherry trees in Washington, DC. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

NTEN Members are our heroes (Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Don't miss the ICT4G one-day conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by NTEN member organization Catholic Relief Services. Members are in bold. There are a bunch of NTEN members scheduled to speak!

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Travlr After I sent out a message announcing our Drupal Webinar Series , my in-box filled up with "Isn't the first one of those scheduled for Inauguration Day? The Washington Post has a nice one , including the parade route and locations of the always popular portable restrooms. Aren't you going?" Tag things!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

Washington, DC NetSquared Meetup. Liz Kearley via Flickr. Monday, January 20. Vancouver, Canada: Raiser’s Edge Therapy: Year-End Tax Receipts. Tuesday, January 21. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Wednesday, January 22. Tuesday, January 28. That’s all for now. See you in February!

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2012

Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. Winners will be announced at the Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits in Washington D.C.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Just distill the message you want to test down to a Facebook ad, and then run that ad against various groups: married women over 40, students living in Washington and Oregon, Canadian kayakers and so forth. ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

flickr: Beach650 Most days, we're hiding from the rain in our Portland, OR office. October 16-19 in Washington, DC : The PRSA International Conference, Powering PRogress will feature over 80 sessions across four tracks. But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. Are you going?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2010

Flickr Photo: Paraflyer. Our conference hotel, the Washington Hilton was just up the hill from the metro station, so I kept walking down Connecticut to get there. (Or I was in DC last week with the famous Anna Richter getting our 11NTC ducks in a row. Or to the Chipotle; I may have set a record for burritos consumed in one trip.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Michaela Hackner , a talented photographer, was on hand to document the Day of Service on Flickr. See you in 2011 in Washington, DC. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr. And, I saw a few thank you tweets from local organizations in Atlanta too! Thanks to all who participated and helped make this year's Day of Service a huge success.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Flickr: magnuscanis This week, NTEN members are busy sharing ideas and experience on a range of topics. It takes place October 3rd outside Washington DC and you can be part of the steering committee by submitting session ideas, speaker recommendations and more! Have m ore news to share? Check out the events schedule and get signed up

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APRIL 22, 2011

Flickr: gareth1953 As you know, this Spring has seen some new faces at NTEN – including mine! During the transition, one thing has fallen from the blog: the regular member round-up. Well, don't fret! It's back now and here to stay. Feel free to add it to this week's comments by sharing a link or message in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. At last month’s Social Media Week Washington, DC 2013 , the SM4GH leadership team presented Benchmarking: Stop Comparing Apples to Potatoes. This event when over initial findings and had detailed discussions around emerging themes to see if these were consistent with what was discovered in the survey results.

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NTEN

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. Salsa Labs announce a new director-level workshop at their annual Community Conference this October 9-10 in Washington, DC.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

The movement started last June with the first Crisis Camp barcamp held in Washington. magnitude earthquake leveled Haiti, folks mobilized quickly via Facebook and Twitter to hold Crisis Camps January 16 in Washington, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. These preliminary efforts paid off.

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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. Additionally, the Regional Representative will receive a trip to the 2013 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington, DC.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2009

Flickr: kool_skatkat It's been a little while since I posted one of these members-online round-ups. Sarah Davies , ACLU-Washington , just so happened to have recently been on a panel discussing Twitter and Facebook. Let's just say I've been saving up for a really good one. She shared the video of the session.

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MAY 1, 2013

Real World Supporter Engagement from MomsRising and the Washington Trails Association , Debra Askanese. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. Video Clip from 13NTC Session #13NTCcur8 , Red Racoon Interactive. Digital Storytelling at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 , Michael DeLong. From 13NTC: Stranded , Rob Cottingham.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting).

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted? How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar? Tweets on Twitter.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

Real World Supporter Engagement from MomsRising and the Washington Trails Association , Debra Askanese. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. Video Clip from 13NTC Session #13NTCcur8 , Red Racoon Interactive. Digital Storytelling at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 , Michael DeLong. 13NTC Community Pictures on Eventifier.

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JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

  I flipped through my flickr images and settled on this basket of apples from last year.   (You can see an example of a slideshare (and some early contributions) here.)    She is hoping to raise $10,000 for a group of female entrepreneurs in the Philippines. So, simple a request, yet difficult. 

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AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. Once I graduated I took a job at a large consulting company in Washington, D.C. I was just a tech girl with limited knowledge about the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2007

They created a Flickr petition where they asked people to post a photo of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian coffee farmers." Now Starbucks has added Arizona, southern Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington D.C., Then Slashdot talked about it, and the number of views doubled in a week or two to about 50,000 views.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

While I was attending the Direct Marketing Association of Washington’s Social Media Day a few months ago, I decided to strike up a conversation with one ofthe presenters. Where they’re from (this happens often in DC as my city is a spot tourists love to visit!) or the derivation of their message T.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? Flickr: Setup a RSS feed to track photos that are tagged with your organizations name on Flickr (one of the most popular photo sharing sites). ” Think about it. Word of mouth, etc. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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