Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

at last week's NTC conference in Washington, a woman took the microphone to comment on a conundrum her non-profit is facing. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. At a session on Web2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. The Big Surprise.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2011

I have interviewed hundreds of people in my career. Don't wait until you have an opening to start looking. Ask the Right Questions There are lots of books and websites about how to answer the typical interview questions. Any decent interview candidate is ready for the basic questions. In most cases they already have one.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

I usually come away from the NTC with one theme that is connected to multiple sessions. This lead to a fabulous question about how to accomplish that when the issue is sensitive and people may face serious repercussions for being open about their experience publicly. Full transparency isn’t a luxury that everyone enjoys.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

Flickr: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology We're still catching our breath from the NTC earlier this month, but the nonprofit technology community is as active as ever this week! There is an amazing position open with an even more amazing company! Too many NTEN members to name were interviewed in Convio’s recent video survey.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

In follow-up interviews we discovered that many nonprofits were using cloud-based software without even realizing it, so the adoption rate could be even higher. The TechSoup Survey will be open through March 23, 2012. If you’re coming to the upcoming NTEN NTC 2012 conference in San Francisco next month, I hope to see you there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. Here's my interview: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. The Big Surprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service ! Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? I saw that you just signed up for the NTC Day of Service (bless you). tools I used here 4.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Thanks for including the NTC !). While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. Marc Osten interviews Gavin Clabaugh -- two NTEN superstars, I must say! Jenn Thompson lists the conferences she's looking forward to attending in 2009 and why she recommends them.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. We also read through all of the NTC evaluations! We didn''t want to split up these post-NTC conversations so have sacrificed brevity in the hopes of completeness. As one of you noted in the survey: My favorite thing about the conference is how open to sharing everyone there is.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). They interviewed key stakeholders. Tip #3: Be open to anything. And each of us explained it a little differently. Big Duck looked at everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

and have had a number of formal and informal debriefs together about the NTC. Thank you to everyone who took the time to share feedback both in session evaluations and the overall NTC evaluation. It is important to us that the NTC figuratively and the plenaries literally serve as a stage to highlight the diversity of this community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community? Penguin Days.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Session voting for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference is open, of course! . Tell Better Stories With Your Data : You’ll learn how to interview your data to find compelling storylines. Get excited for the NTC and vote today ! According to NTEN , only 80-100 sessions will be selected and voting ends on 12 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He summarized some learnings from NTC sessions he attended and the keynote by David Pogue.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). They interviewed key stakeholders. Tip #3: Be open to anything. We focused on action and making change for the patient. And each of us explained it a little differently. Big Duck looked at everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. Anyone reading this have that and willing to share with me via an interview?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It could be as simple as opening up a google document and dropping in a few bullet points or cutting and pasting a comment. Yesterday, I interviewed Jake Brewer who is the Internet Manager at the Energy Action Coalition about how they use metrics to generate insights about their YouTube Channel. “We More on that later.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

In the most futuristic presentation at NTC, Shahed Chowdhuri from Microsoft showed off the HoloLens. Users can speak, "bloom" (open their palms), and "gaze" (look in a particular direction). See our short interview with Chowdhuri to get a glimpse at Microsoft's next big thing. More from NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

(Wouldn’t a failfest be an awesome session at the NTC 2013?). He shares some thoughts about the Open Data Handbook. There is an informative interview with Mayur Patel, who leads the Knight Foundation’s evaluation efforts. My big takeaway from Mayur Patel’s interview was the question about future trends.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Surfrider Foundation’s podcast often has interviews out in the field so you hear the ocean or birds and it adds to the recording. Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. interview volunteers, staff, directors. Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. The Online NTC takes place September 16-17th - get a special 25% discount here. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. It's open to 501c3's serving U.S. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

Gina, Beth, and Aliza at the NTC. We’ve had a great time sharing tips and discussion with many other nonprofits professionals in an open Facebook Group called “ Take A Walk “for nonprofit professionals interested in walking meetings and other ways to bring movement into their nonprofit workplaces. And my butt hurt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

If you want to dig in, you can learn more here: Interview in the Guardian. He said that Facebook is on a mission to make the world more open and connected. “A fully connected world gives people access to life long learning and economic opportunity. My blog post with slides and links. Storify with Tweets and Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

I had the honored of moderating a free wheeling plenary discussion on Day #3 of NTC on “ Innovation and Nonprofits.” Brian Reich’s Interview About the Panel. I had the honored of moderating a free wheeling plenary discussion on Day #3 of NTC on “Innovation and Nonprofits.” Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Another example is the campaign Holly Ross, at NTEN, just finished to raise $10,000 for NTC scholarships using social media tools and a lot of her personality. Last month, I did a reflection interview after the event with her to discover what worked and what didn't. Or maybe just as a marketing strategy.

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