NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

HaitiAidMap from InterAction (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Members are in bold. project Haitiaidmap.org.

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MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Beth Kanter and NTEN have spent almost a whole year working on the We Are Media project, and we've learned a few important things. How would you measure the ROI of the video? . There are some emerging companies working their way toward tracking this third dimension of social media ROI. Tags: NPTech roi web2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2009

Proving ROI to your managers. Tags: NPTech sxswnp roi measurement sxsw. Some of the issues our poets raised: Combining qualitative and quantitive data. Using measurement as a learning tool. Whether or not online mom communities are mean. So if you missed it, here it is!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). NpTech Software. This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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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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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2009

Flickr: cwalker71 The 2009 Women Who Tech panels were announced this week, and we're glad to see so many NTEN members representing the women who nptech! Fellow Aussie NTEN member David Jacquier has already made the long trip to the US to attend the SxSW conference in Austin. That's a long flight, y'all!

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. NTEN member Sean Watson brought up his concern about the lack of staffing around, and interest in, "business processes" in most nonprofit organizations. Don't just use spreadsheets, use pictures. of people, even.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

about the early days and evolution of nptechies working with the web, and you'll probably see some names your recognize, including current and past NTEN members like Ami Dar of Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. NTEN member organization MPower rebrands itself as Orange Leap (and NTEN's Holly Ross appreciates it ).

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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. What do you know, NTEN made the news! NTEN members rock when it comes to being generous with their awesomeness!

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MARCH 16, 2009

Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET. Tags: NPTech community buzz online fundraising nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Alternative Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. I'm honored to have a chapter in the book about ROI and you can hear geek out about it here. A free copy of the NTEN book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission ($40 value).

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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. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. blog thought it was cool too.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The infographic below (you'll want to view the whole thing) connects the dots between some specific actions – like having a technology plan, evaluating the ROI of technology projects, and investing in training for staff – and overall organizational effectiveness when it come to managing technology for your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Nonprofit Eye walks us through how to compute the ROI of ITC for nonprofits. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2012

NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more. > Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly "IT") Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. However, only 7% are evaluating ROI rigorously or regularly. >

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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. DIY ROI: Use this checklist from Network for Good's Tanya Lee to make smarter technology investments for your org.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Given the multiplicity of nonprofit-related examples -- including the past 2 issues of NTEN Connect -- crowdsourcing may very well be (part of) the future of nonprofit problem solving. Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? And the future of Old Spice Man?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

If you haven't been attending the Storytelling & Social Media series , presented by Techsoup Global and NTEN, you've been missing out! . Danielle Brigida from NTEN Member organization NWF gave a great introduction to using social news and bookmarking tools to help "create buzz" for your organization's news and issues.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

If you liked our look at the ROI of NTEN's Facebook ads , be sure to check out Groundwire's post on using ads to find likers for your fan page. Apropos of nothing, this video of a talking dog has been cracking up the NTEN office for weeks. Pass judgment on us in the 2011 NTEN Community Survey. Read more posts on our blog.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth. We were fairly proactive in the content of our messaging but less so in the technologies to deliver them," said Sandeen.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. tags: nonprofit nptech ). Upcoming events in the series include podcasting, video creation, creating social buzz, and social media ROI. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN. Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas. Deanna Zandt. Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach. and so much more. When : May 12, 2009. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Where : Everywhere via phone and web. Women and Open Source.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

We also invite you to join us for the remaining webinars in the NTEN and TechSoup Global Social Media & Storytelling Webinar Series : Podcasting (1/28/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Corey Pudhorodsky. Social Media ROI (2/18/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Beth Kanter . Social Media ROI (2/18/2009, 11am PT) Presented by: Beth Kanter .

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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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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" How do I measure the effectiveness (ROI) of social media? Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

NTEN is very lucky that Dahna Goldstein, founder of PhilanTech , wrote the chapter "Managing Technology Change" in our about-to-be-published book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Tags: NPTech bev magda dahna goldstein NTEN change management 09NTC. I could not agree more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Holly Ross, publisher of NTEN Your job isn't going to exist in a few years, and it ain't the economy's fault. Is the ROI all about the web metrics? I loved the report so much I twisted MarshallK 's arm -- OK, I just asked -- and he gave us three copies to give away free to NTEN members! Blame it on social media.

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MAY 15, 2009

Nonprofits in the study segmented in some pretty interesting ways, increasing their ROI along the way. Tags: Advocacy benchmarks email Fundraising m+r marketing metrics newsletters NPTech NTEN. Will gift size increase with an economic turnaround? Small is the new big. We're increasingly savvy in our list segmentation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

If there's one thread that runs through nearly every discussion in the NTEN community, it's something like: "How do I convince folks higher up the ladder that this is worth pursuing?" " We hear a lot of answers, answers that involve ROI, patience, and the like. Flickr: elyob. I've dished out plenty of platitudes myself.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

More in-depth, financial metric focused ROI, perhaps in a Roundtable discussion format. ROI on Fundraising Metrics -- fundraising sessions need to incorporate concrete fundraising metrics, even when focus is communications strategy. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN. Back office technologies and management. Fundraising.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. ROI of Social Networking. Tags: NPTech womenwhotech WWT IT Staff. Among the sessions: Launching Your Own Startup. Female Ferocity.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

That's why we're about to offer " The Email Fundraiser's Toolkit ", covering storytelling, subject lines, list building, the best tools for the job, ROI – pretty much everything your organization needs to make your campaign a success. After all, up to one third of all online giving happens in December alone.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Epicurious has one listing seasonal produce available in your area by month. (If If you have an iPhone, you can get an app that takes it one step further , with links to nearby farmers markets.). Geek poetry.

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