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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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Today we''re giving a big thank-you to the dedicated members of NTEN''s committees. NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. NTEN Research Committee. Rebecca Reyes, Communications Manager, Everyday Democracy.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer? You will need to be flexible and patient.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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#14LCS Facilitator Series: Meet Londell Jackson

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If you register for NTEN’s first-ever Leading Change Summit this September (#14LCS), you’ll be asked to choose one of three tracks— Digital Strategy , The Future of Technology , or Impact Leadership —and you’ll spend quite a bit of time with your track-mates at the Summit.

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Using SMS in the Field

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The Mobicom partnership comes with access to their SMS website, which allows Bogii to track the messages that have been sent, how many were undelivered due to connection issues, and to see audience responses to the message. Easy to use website to track messages and responses. Tags: Mobile NPTech NTEN Program. What didn't work.

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A Rant About Accidental Techies

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Shirky observes that his female students tend to miss out on career opportunities because they rarely promote themselves like "arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks", as his male students seem far better able to do. And how did you move to a more intentional career track? But I don't think that's the only explanation. If so, why?

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Free and open source tools #1 – #100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You don’t have to code to do what should be basic tasks using the tool (for instance, this eliminates a good time tracking program, which at some point I might blog about, but that you have to learn scheme[1] to get customized reports with any complexity. )