Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Online collaboration tools and platforms give nonprofits the opportunity for connectivity and collaboration internally as well as with external stakeholders like volunteers and board members. It could be done face-to-face or as a virtual or hybrid meeting. And, that’s a good thing. Step 1: Brainstorm.

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MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. Do a Google search and you can find a great deal of research on virtually all aspects of interests, attitudes and aptitudes for Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and the Matures. A white paper related to the study is available at www.convio.com/nextgen.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A recent project by NTEN and Cornerstone, “ The State of Nonprofit Professional Development ,” uncovered that “nonprofit staff want to learn and grow in their jobs and careers and that they seek to pursue professional development even if it’s not an official part of the expectations and evaluations in their jobs.”. AfriKids , a U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The social media team includes the Deputy Director, the Special Projects Director, the Social Media Manager, the social media consultant, summer interns, and an outside content development consultant.

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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.” Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings. Encourage brainstorming.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

We''re attending virtually through the livestream. z International Foundation discussing Millennial Leadership. z International Foundation: to protect well-being of humans on planet. z International Foundation designed a program to spark what they call "joy activism" in employees. To this end, the Mondel?z

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. They help “air out the brain” and can help a tired group regain focus. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings. I often incorporate sticky notes and often have to rearrange the furniture.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

The virtual Women Who Tech Telesummit which happens via internet audio and the web provides some of the most web thought-provoking, inspiring, and skills building sessions for nonprofit campaigners and social change makers. Women Who Tech TeleSummit – May 23rd. Register now! AFP TechKnow – June 4-5th.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

We welcomed the following experts: Amy Sample Ward , Membership Director of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). During its Member Appreciation Month , for example, NTEN invites its members to share how they are using technology at their organizations to make a difference. Paula Goldman , Director at Omidyar Network.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. What little remains we will mirror up to virtual servers somewhere, possibly Amazon. David Goodman , NetHope CIO-in-Residence and Former CIO for the International Rescue Committee. Image 1: NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! I recommend good walking shoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It is caught during an internal audit. "As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation," said James Lundy , managing vice president at Gartner, Inc.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Many of the exhibitors will be giving away prizes (see below) and because we love prizes, NTEN will be giving away some exiting prizes at this show as well! Blackbaud : Visit Blackbaud in booth #66 during the Science Fair, and while you're there, record your NTEN memories in the digital photo booth. But wait, there's more!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This was especially true for those that accepted (or largely lived on) public dollars -- primarily those that provide human services, international relief, health care or educational services. Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. Charities owe it to those they serve to be effective.3. BRONX POL 'FE$$ES UP.” New York Post.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Understand your internal business processes. What are NTEN, TechSoup, and Idealware saying about the solutions? What's in the Cloud. Develop a strategic plan. A CRM solution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. Hybrid meetings are familiar for many nonprofits, particularly larger international nonprofits with many country offices or national networks with affiliate office locations. Give your remote participants a seat at the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Check out NTEN's upcoming Webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Providing the service level your organization needs internally, as it needs it, is a tall order. Cloud services are shared.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Matt McCabe, Orange Leap. [Ed. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ].

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A professional in advancement services, alumni relations, communications and marketing, and fundraising in District II To Register: [link] MARCH NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference Portland, OR, and Virtual March 13-15, 2024 Also known as NTC, this annual event spotlights essential nonprofit technology best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! There's a few recent posts on Mass Digging As Virtual Activism well worth a read. Perfect Password generator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. What would ngos look like if they were completely virtual? " Doug Jacquier, CEO, CISA, Inc welcomed everyone and gave some context about CISA's growth and services over the past few years. Good or bad thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Taking a virtual walk with Yeshi may not help you get your steps in for the day, but it will be fascinating and educational. Yeshi is part of the family of technologies we call “bots” that includes robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs and virtual reality. These bots are the drivers of the “Age of Automation.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. This YouTube video shows how to exclude your internal traffic (min 2:13) by using a filter. Young Einstein. The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts).

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

From periodic candidate updates and requests for time, money, and votes to virtual phone banks , national and local campaigns are finding new ways to mobilize a growing percentage the US's 277 million mobile users. Games – Perhaps the elections are enough of a virtual game that we don't generate more on-line election games.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

How do we tell our story and also engage Millennials virtually? As examples, check out Conservation International. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online. Instead of printed annual reports, try doing a video with interview and clips from what you've done the last year. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

The birth of CompuMentor is described in Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. In the same year, NTEN.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

When Alyson Kapin asked me if I was interested in doing a session for WomenWhoTech, I very much wanted to do a session that could showcase and hear from women in places outside of North America. I am grateful to Alyson, NTEN and other Summit sponsors for the opportunity to experiment with having a Global virtual discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? Is that why we're seeing so many charity online stores like the one from Campus Kitchens Project and Amnesty International. Then do the next best thing, take a virtual trip to Bali. Net Tuesdays are spreading around the globe!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It substitutes traditional local and long distance charges with a flat monthly per-account fee, and dramatically reduces international calling rates. A virtual private network solution allows company data to be accessed by employees from numerous locations, while keeping it entirely secure. Meetings are a regular part of work routine.

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