NTEN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here’s a Thing We Love: Ash Shepherd is NTEN''s new Education Director ! We’d welcome him to the party, but he’s been rocking the NTEN party for a good long while already. Truer words … If you feel like (re)making history, the British Museum is looking for help to create its own digital clone in Minecraft.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

Did you know that in his six years at NTEN, Brett has sent more than 6 million emails? It is with the same combined emotion of being impressed and knowing it's true that I announce today that Brett will be stepping down from his role as NTEN's Communications Director at the end of February. Outside of work, the NTEN staff love to eat.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. When you are sharing news or calls to action, be sure to provide relevant context and history or links to where people can learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

For example, my colleague Shai Coggins from Connecting Up (the Australian version of NTEN), who always brings me Tim-Tams. After a wonderful video tribute, she said, “Thanks NTEN, you have my back!” I have some many friends and colleagues that I only get to see once a year at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki. I got hear the legends in the nptech sector in the early days talk about their work and was inspired.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2015

This launch has been a long-time coming — read through the process in previous case study posts: June 23: Case Study: NTEN''s Website Relaunch August 14: Case study update: NTEN''s site relaunch August 28: NTEN''s Website Redesign: Survey results from the community November 13: NTEN''s New Homepage: Share Your First Impressions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!” ” Now certainly development professionals have a history of using research – think donor research for big endowment campaigns.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2011

Aroneanu garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a pool of finalists that included founders of Kiva.org and KaBoom, as well as leaders of Network for Good and Watershed Company. org 's simultaneous event in 181 countries, to fight global warming which CNN called "the largest day of political action in the planet's history."

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2011

You've just wrapped up the biggest Nonprofit Technology Conference in your history. Where are you going to go now? Just a few blocks away, actually. But fortunately, not much farther from our favorite food cart pod.)

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

The NTEN Community consistently learns and shares from each other, creating opportunities to highlight the work that we all do. The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14.

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MARCH 30, 2022

CA: As an “accidental” fundraiser originally focused on securing an advanced degree in art history, I can say without hesitation that you do not. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so. Q: Do I need an academic degree?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. NTEN www.nten.org/blog. My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset.

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Biggar, who founded and leads Leadnow , garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a formidable pool of finalists. It launched with distributed house-parties to set its direction, and it has organized one of the largest distributed protests in Canadian history to protest dangerous pipeline proposals.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

Something similar happened a few years back when NTEN scheduled NTC over Passover. Now I'm on the Board of NTEN and Holly and I joke about my being the "calendar police" since she almost scheduled a NTC over Passover again another year and I caught it in time. It's how I met Holly Ross in the first place.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Luckily, the NTEN Community is full of advice on places to go, things to do, dishes to eat, and how to navigate NTC like a pro. NTEN Education Director, Ash Shepherd recommends connecting with folks you may have heard of or interacted with online, but never met in person. 15NTC community Community nptech NTC nten tips Program'

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. Successful community organizing across history has always been networked. I definitely recommend them both!

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

To build a supportive environment for your online community, we should incorporate what we've learned from history, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. So, how might we create and nurture our digital communities by incorporating the lessons we’ve learned from history, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy? Little Bird.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

Something similar happened a few years back when NTEN scheduled NTC over Passover. Now I'm on the Board of NTEN and Holly and I joke about my being the "calendar police" since she almost scheduled a NTC over Passover again another year and I caught it in time. It's how I met Holly Ross in the first place.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] A knowledge of this history can feed confidence and help direct young women into the field. I appreciated the opportunity to meet the remarkable women surrounding me at NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. We each tackled a different aspect of resilience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] This might include the types of projects they’d like to help with, when they’re available, and their history volunteering with the organization.

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NTEN

APRIL 4, 2014

How can nonprofits harness the potential of the most popular tool in history for social change? And we’re addicted to these devices: 58% of smartphone users can’t go an hour without checking their phone, and 91% have it within arms reach 24/7. mobile Mobile mobile matrix mobile technology strategy Strategy'

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

We know it can be hard to be the new gal or guy at a big event, but please trust us when we say that the NTEN community is the one of the friendliest and most fun out there! Here are some Community Day highlights: Lobby Day : For the first time in NTC history, NTEN has partnered with Free Press Action Fund to coordinate a Lobby Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history. And, of course, I continued working on a number of volunteer projects, including serving as a board member to NTEN, LLC and on the advisory committees for IFC-Asia, and NonprofitReady.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

presented by iDonate 4:00pm-4:30pm: Building a Stronger Community with Customer Service presented by Zendesk 4:30pm-5:00pm: Hyperconvergence for the SMB presented by Scale Computing Thursday, March 4 12:00pm-12:30pm: Build Your Website in the Cloud presented by Amazon Web Services 12:30pm-1:00pm: Brief History about Public Interest Registry and the.ORG,NGO (..)

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. The “current state” responses above reflect the complexity and history of the social good sector. The goal was twofold: To educate on the current value of benchmarking in the social good sector and.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

It had had a really interesting history before that though. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. International Women's Day came about in its current form in 1975. That year, the United Nations declared International Women's Year , and began sponsoring International Women's Day every March 8.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It’s a way to take all that data you’ve collected about the great things your organization does, and use it for social good purposes – to illustrate timelines, histories, relationships, the impact of a program, and much more. With their unique combination of images and words, infographics are a powerful storytelling tool.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 31, 2012

As some of you may know, my podcasting history extends back before I started posting on the Connection Café For several years I published a podcast called the 501c3Cast which gave me some amazing opportunities to meet entergetic, smart, community-focused people in the nonprofit sector. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

In this article, I''ll share a few insights gained through my work on three nonprofit apps: Public Art PDX with the Regional Arts & Culture Council Des Moines Public Art with the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation PDX Social History Guide with Know Your City.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

And now, dear readers, NTEN will respond. He also ignores the many network and community based movements that have been successful throughout history; check out the list Patrick St. Tags: activism Advocacy Collaboration Malcom Gladwell NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. John came up with on the echoditto blog.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I had to look way back into my conference history to a time where this happened. I’ll get another swing at this at SXSW in Austin next month (and hopefully NTEN and few other places throughout the year). I did one work call that I couldn’t escape from and I answered maybe five emails, one personal.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2012

Last year, our organization, Games for Change , put together the largest Festival in our 8 year history. In today's world, cloud technology can allow most nonprofits with an Internet connection to access hundreds of files, manage multiple teams, and keep track of others whether they are remote or across the office.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2009

In a scenario ripe for Hollywood exploitation, protests have erupted in Guatemala over the slaying of a lawyer.

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2015

The typhoon, which was the deadliest in the country’s history, left the area littered with rubble and in complete darkness. The response to the disaster made history, too: It marked the first time that unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, were used to save lives and provide relief in the aftermath of a storm.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

At the Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center (MAH) in Santa Cruz, California, community engagement is central to both mission and vision: to create a thriving gathering place for Santa. Kimberlee Roth.

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