Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? nptech opensource socialmedia. Tags: Technology Zen Web2.0 Using free services is fine, but know why they are free. Are they free because the company behind them is an ad revenue machine and uber profitable (Google)?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2005

" It is defined as: Continuous partial attention is that state most of us enter when we're in front of a computer screen, or trying to check out at the grocery store with a cellphone pressed to an ear -- or blogging the proceedings of a conference while it's underway. Ah, so the nptech community is an attention stream!

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Learn and Serve America > Press Release - Detail: "Washington D.C. NPtech NPSocialNetwork. Tags: NPWeb2.0 Aiming to tap the skyrocketing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to promote social good, the Corporation for National and Community Service today announced $2.3

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 24, 2009

In the current economy, obviously, every nonprofit organization has a pressing need to trim expenses and our group is no exception. Tags: event managment Associations Best practices Non-profit Communications nptech. Recently I’ve had a small role in helping to organize the annual conference.( read more ).

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2009

Tags: CRM Fundraising idealware NPTech. The information is divided into two reports—the actual Consumers Guide , which provides summaries and recommendations across all 33 of the systems we reviewed, and the Detailed Reviews , which provide the detailed evaluations of twelve specific systems.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Nonprofit donors have more options for giving - Fort Worth Business Press: "While these may be traditional ways to drum up money for a cause, such methods tend to be labor intensive for both the charity and for donors, said Aly Burroughs, the corporate marketing director for the American Heart Association’s Start! Tarrant County Heart Walk.To

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

The Associated Press: Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program: "Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child ProgramBy MAY WONG – 10 hours agoSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Tags: NPtech NPTechtools NPOLPC. AP) — Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. AP) — Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz nten members. Members are in bold. Thanks, Peter! Did your org make it?

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2009

Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, says, The future of the Internet as we know it depends on maintaining freedom and openness online," said. Tags: broadband access internet net nuetrality NPTech NTEN. Last Friday, a bill to make Net Neutrality law made it's way to Congress. Check it out: . .

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

Tags: Advocacy free press Leadership net neutrality NPTech. You can support the cause by signing the individual letter of support. Tell your friends and colleagues by sharing these links through email, Facebook, and Twitter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

We also dedicate a hash tag to the coverage so that our followers can easily follow what other live-tweeters are saying. Hash tags are also a must if you're going to track the impact of your efforts and conversations afterwards. Tag Team. Gain press coverage? Tags: NPTech NTEN. Practice Makes Perfect.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

If you're an NTEN member and have nptech news, don't forget to tag your posts "NTEN member" or "nptech" -- and give me a heads-up! You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here ! S ee their latest press here.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2010

Free Press, Moveon.org, and other partners have organized a rally at Google headquarters this Friday -- that's tomorrow! -- at Noon. Tags: Google Leadership netneutrality NPTech Policy verizon. A couple of things: Tell FCC Chairman Genachowski to denounce the proposal. Tell Google that compromise not acceptable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples.

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2009

You can read more about Stephanie Cuskley in NPower's press release. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten member. We want to give a big welcome to Stephanie and send our best wishes to the NPower network, long-time members and supporters of NTEN and important contributors to the nonprofit technology community.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2010

Facebook held a call with the press today to outline a shift in their privacy settings. Tags: facebook NPTech NTEN privacy Communications. At NTEN, we think the line between public and private is fascinating: witness our upcoming event, The Evolution of Privacy and the Social Web. What do you think?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Tags: NPTech orange leap mpower NTEN fame. Never again will Holly have to say, "No, 'M' as in 'Mother' Power, not 'N' as in 'Nancy' Power" That's probably for the best. " Congrats to Orange Leap!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions. Tags: 10NTC NPTech see3 Social Media video Web Sites youtube Communications. Expert Judges - See who will be selecting the top 16 videos that will be voted on by the YouTube community. Contest Rules - The fine print and more.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

I learned about the public comment period in an email from Free Press. Read the quick facts below, see Free Press for more info, and comment today ! (If If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Misty Perez , Campaign Coordinator at Free Press.). Competition and Choice.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2010

SILENCE July 16 - Apple holds a press conference , delcares that there will be free cases for all (that's the fix) and Steve Jobs says "It's not like Apple has had its head in the sand on this. Tags: apple iPhone NPTech Social Media steve jobs Communications. June 26 - Complaints about antennae problems start to pour in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger. Find my profile of Jason here including his list of NPTech heroes and where he gets his info. Here in the U.S., Image five: NTEN.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Our Twitter hashtag became a news outlet; featured on the homepage of the local newspaper’s website, CharlotteObserver.com, and one media official even contacting a colleague in regards to a ‘tweet’ that went live prior to an accompanying press release to confirm its validity. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

When pressed for details, though, many in the nonprofit community can't offer much of a definition. Tags: Advocacy Leadership network neutrality NPTech NTEN steve maclaughlin. You should. It might dramatically impact your nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs can give you the press you seek. blog nonprofit net2 nptech. Tags: nptech. Rather than crossing your fingers that a reporter will cover a story about your work, blogs can help you create your own coverage. How has having a blog been beneficial, or not beneficial to your organization? Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

It made me think of Dave Winer's post about digital preservation and the nptech history wiki. " Tell stories, stop sending crappy press releases. NpTech Random Bytes Susie's Blog gives up a Joomla and a fashion prediction crocs are out, the template has been loaded. Ruby is talking about digital preservation and blogs.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Fundraising. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Ben Rigby is the CTO & Co-founder, The Extraordinaries and the author of Author of Mobilizing Generation 2.0 , (Wiley Press), The “Mobile Technology” chapter in Internet Management for Nonprofits , (Wiley Press), and Setting up an SMS Campaign from your Desktop (MobileActive.org).

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AFP Blog

MAY 30, 2008

PRESS RELEASEPress Releases: "Blackbaud, Inc. Tags: NPtech. Announces Acquisition of KinteraCharleston, S.C. – May 29, 2008 – Blackbaud, Inc. NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, announced today that it is acquiring Kintera, Inc.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 24, 2008

PRESS RELEASENewsGallery - Australian charities turn to Facebook generation for survival: "'I'm in no doubt that the tools of the social web are going to be a crucial part of online life for nonprofits in Australia as they are in the USA,' Ms Kanter said.'Whether Tags: NPWeb2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

But, too often, we populate our websites with re-purposed press releases. Tags: roger burks NPTech NTEN Newsletter writing. We work with, around, and for some of the most amazing people in the world. Their stories inspire us. They're the very reason we got into this business. Dry program language. Those things don't inspire us.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 10, 2006

The discussion there led to some interesting offline conversation about "what REALLY ARE the pressing technological needs of non-profits at this point in time?" Tags: nptech , techsoup Back in October, TechSoup held an online forum on Web2.0 for non-profits in their Emerging Technologies forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. We still need to hear from idealware and the nonprofit tech blog - and many other nptech folks. I will summarize more in the weekly nptech tag summary. So be sure to tag your write ups with nptech. Check twitter.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

PRESS RELEASEFirstgiving Opens Social Networking Site to World of Online Philanthropy: "SOMERVILLE, Mass., PRESS RELEASEFirstgiving Opens Social Networking Site to World of Online Philanthropy: "SOMERVILLE, Mass., Tags: NPtech. Firstgiving's new application.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Turn your press releases into social media releases , which are both keyword rich and easy to share across the social web. Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 "Find us on Facebook") on direct marketing pieces (including both mail and email). Seed and nurture community.

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