NTEN

APRIL 10, 2014

Today we give a huge thanks to our mighty team of NTEN Community Champions : you helped to collectively raise over $30,000 for the greater good of the #nptech community! To recognize the tremendous work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Instead, it brought in independent experts to understand why the measurements were so different.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A logic model helps to visualize those details and highlight the connection between a program's purpose and the programs results, and it helps you make sure you're measuring the right things so you can show success! Ananda Roberts Data Leadership logic models nptech nten Communications Program'

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes. In the spring of 2013, NTEN and Avectra surveyed nonprofit communications, fundraising, and leadership staff about their engagement data management practices, findings, and future plans.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month? Community local events nten'

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NTEN

JULY 25, 2013

If you’re really ahead of the game, you’ve identified some goals and concrete ways to measure success. Forum One Communications Michael Rader nptech nten Web Sites website website redesign Communications IT Staff' The paperwork is finished, and your web team is buzzing excitedly about new possibilities.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2012

No matter what anyone tells you, it's almost impossible to measure the success of your social media campaigns by using only one measurement tool: accurate reporting relies on a suite of analytics tools (most of which are available for free) and a fair share of thoughtful analysis. But that isn't to say it's simple.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2012

We're coming to the Boston area on September 13th to put on a one-day workshop that will explore ways you can make data easier to manage, more useful, and mission-focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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NetWits

APRIL 6, 2012

I just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. The conference was amazing! My suggestion.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2014

There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month?

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

Flickr Photo: _ES Amy Sample Ward lays out 5 strategic steps for measuring the ROI of social media for your organization. There are no easy equations, but this is sound advice on how to go from identifying the problem (or goal) to measuring the impact of a social media strategy (or tool). What do you know, NTEN made the news!

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2012

NTEN's going to head up I-5 to Seattle on August 8th to put on a one-day workshop that will explore ways you can make data easier to manage, more useful, and mission-focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. NTC is just days away! There's also dogooder.tv

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

The third issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. Featured in this issue: " Measuring Your Social Media Success ," from Idealware's Andrea Berry, which provides guidance for measuring what matters when it comes to social media for your nonprofit.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2013

In February we introduced you to NTEN''s Communities of Impact (CoI), a pilot program whose 19 participants are spending this year looking at ways nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. Though this is not an official NTEN survey, we hope you will share your experiences and insights with the CoI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. " What do you think about measuring social media? More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

In the NTEN community, the concept of "IT Staff" has been more fluid and inclusive, but we also know that many nonprofit professionals who have information technology responsibilities are either not given formal "information technology" titles, or don''t self-identify as "IT Staff" -- and often both cases are true for an individual.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. This is going to make the response rates and causality that we can measure today become more difficult in the future. Tags: Community convio Data E-mail NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.") Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Through expert-led sessions, worksheets, and review of your work by both peers and experts, we'll walk you through creating an overall strategy, writing a series of emails, defining the email and online donation tools that you'll need, and creating an approach to tracking and measuring your success. . NTENers receive a 15% discount!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

November 17: Transforming Data into Knowledge: Measuring Performance, Outcomes, and Social Impact. The information presented in each session is independent of the others. Series Session Include: November 11: Defining Data: When Data is Everywhere, Where do You Start? December 1: Data Visualization: Tools and Tactics.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Tags: NPTech NTEN. Let's create a Ning site! No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed. Well, playtime's over. You just don't know it yet!)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Beth Kanter. Beth's Blog. What are the skills and mindsets that nonprofits need to embrace data for social change? What are the types of funding and capacity building that philanthropy should support to make this happen?

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NTEN

APRIL 6, 2012

To be honest, for NTEN staff, the bar for this show was pretty low. Working Internet and a hotel staff that actually like you were our biggest measures of success. More than NTEN will be able to address in the coming year. You all have them, and I was the beneficiary. than I came with.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

[Editor's note: Ontario 211 and NTEN asked Ontario nonprofits about how they were using technology – and how they’d like to be using technology – for their work. We use technology really well in a measured and strategic way. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. If you’d like to share your stories, click here.].

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Long-time NTEN member and supporter, Atomic Mobile , recently reached a big milestone of 200 clients on the new TapFunder mobile donation platform - check it out ! Knight Foundation helped launch the Norman Lear Center Media Impact Project (MIP) which will attempt to measure the social impact of media. and James L. Sound challenging?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Measuring your results instead of just counting clicks, opens, and tweets. If you can’t measure it, then you can’t manage it. It all starts with measuring your own performance. Tags: 10NTC 5 questions NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @smaclaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) What do you think?

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2009

We sat down for five minutes to define ROI for nonprofits, talk about the challenges of measuring intangibles, and how to use ROI to your advantage: And if you want to learn more about ROI and how to use it in your organization, be sure to register for the Online Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

That’s just a taste to whet your appetite - we’ve got lots more stats you can use to measure your organization’s Facebook page in the full report, plus key recommendations to help you craft a cutting-edge social media program! To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As with anything you’re trying to get better at if you don’t measure it you’ll never know if you’re improving. Here’s a great report by NTEN and M+R on non-profit emarketing benchmarks as well as a quick look at what the open, click through, response and unsubscribe rates look like. Lacking Analytics. What am I missing?

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Spend a little time clarifying your funnel, specifically that last bit about measurable value and the second to last bit about how Facebook users will get there. Once you've got your funnel in place, you can then set to measuring each stage. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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