Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5% of use in very large organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

NTEN is trying to get a handle on all of this, and find out what people use, and how much they like what they use. Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. { It’s such an interesting space, and there are some really intriguing things happening with software in that space. So, let your voice be heard!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.) But, I’d send the query to both the nptech-related groups (like nten-discuss and nosi-discussion) as well as the Sugar folks – you might get some answers. 2 admin 04.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

As you know, NOSI is doing a survey on the use of FOSS in the nonprofit sector. I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. Also, we have been accused in creating a biased survey. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

CiviCRM ranked #1 in satisfaction in the recent NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. { CiviCRM ranked #1 in satisfaction in the recent NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. { Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

at 7:21 pm What did you get out of this survey? [poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In fact, a survey we conducted indicates many people expect help to arrive within one hour of posting a request on an emergency organization's Facebook page. Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman. Please bring them water." Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! I’m spending about 1/2 of my time being Coordinator of NOSI. As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been pretty busy lately. Lots happening!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. I emphasized the importance of knowing your audience. They're done on the phone and chat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. That's why I'm so happy to see the well-written article that Ali posted on the NTEN blog.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I’m twenty-five years old, have a bachelor’s in Psychology, love music, gaming, and I spend way too much time on computers – with a particular talent for breaking them. A 2003 survey of employers found that the cost of adaptation to accommodate employees with disabilities was $500 or less. So, how about a little background? Dixon, K.A.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project. " Mechanical factories of the 1920s makes me think of Metropolis and (I got distracted. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. Wordpress (which was not originally in the survey, they parsed this data out from the “other&# category) was at 2%. Anyway, the survey report, and survey data are worth looking at if you are shopping for a CMS. { Ok sorry for evangelizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to BlogAds 2005 Blog Reader Survey , 43% of blog readers had incomes greater than $90,000. The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. (Full disclosure: I am on ChipIn's nonprofit advisory board). Why not ask them?

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2009

Technology is a big part of "overhead" It's the music program of the nonprofit industry, the first to get cut and the last to be reinstated. 54% of respondents to our last IT Staffing Survey told us they're understaffed in IT. Tags: fuding itstaffing NPTech NTEN spending ssir. Why don't we do this math? Only 21.5%

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Before the end of the year we conducted a survey to find out what the Games for Change community believed were the best social impact games of 2010. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. Mar 11 - 20. SXSW / Austin, TX / Price varies.

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