NTEN

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Each year, NTEN recognizes a member of this community who has furthered the work of the nonprofit technology field through dedication, innovation, and leadership. This year, we are thrilled to honor Judy Hallman for her work with this award. It’s that determination that has allowed her to help so many people and nonprofits over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Training Design' Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara. Please become an NTEN Champion and help us raise $15,000 to support the many free programs we provide the larger nonprofit community, like our research and reports and local events. Here’s David Krumlauf’s page – he’s a huge NTEN booster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. Become Someone’s Homework: If you have a college or university in your town, why not become someone’s homework? The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The Lifeline Program is funded through the Universal Service Fund via contributions from telecom companies (and their customers). This spring, NTEN launched its Digital Inclusion Fellowship Program in which 16 young community leaders in eight Google Fiber communities will have paid internships for a year with local charities.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!):

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. Increasingly, a wide variety of training opportunities are being delivered via LMS. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

All of us here at NTEN and in the greater nonprofit technology community were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden and tragic loss of Dan Scharfman, a long-time prominent member of the nonprofit technology community. Well, this isn’t a fair universe – at least, not yet. However, there was much material for reflection.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the latest episode of npVOICES , NTEN''s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, shares how she began her career in the nonprofit sector as an accidental techie at an organization while in college. Register now! Check out their work at [link].

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2015

It provides best practices training for community-based organizations committed to including children with and without disabilities into their recreational, child development, and youth development programs. Julie Leary, digital strategy whaler at the Whole Whale and Whole Whale University in New York, sent us her recommendation via Facebook.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2014

Previously, she ran online programs for the New Organizing Institute, trained thousands of progressive organizers in digital best practices, and ran online constituency outreach for the 2012 Obama campaign. She''s a proud graduate of the University of Iowa and spends her free time at dance class.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2014

Bridget is the Digital Training Manager at the New Organizing Institute (NOI). Before joining the team at NOI, she taught full-time at Howard University where she developed a curriculum that integrates new media and digital platforms into writing instruction. Based in Washington, D.C.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. But what that really means is that nonprofits in more than 75 cities have access to free training and networking events every month! You like numbers? Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

How much individuals are on board with the project, how much training they've had, and how much people know about a technology change can make or break a project. Training & Education. The George Washington University. The George Washington University. It seems so easy, doesn't it? 1 Grady, V., 1 Grady, V.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. Here’s quick sampling: LA Universal Preschool. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Read more about the challenge , including links to the webinars, training resources, and featured products. Nancy is also a board member of NTEN, a columnist for Fundraising Success, and the curator of the new Nonprofit Marketing 360 blog hosted by Philanthropy.com. Elliot Harmon Creative Commons , Communications Manager.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. Larger corporations have training departments and a multi-prong syllabus. 3) Partner with colleges and universities. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Search LinkedIn and Google groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

5 Pitfalls That Ruin Your Productivity (and Sanity) by Megan Keane, Membership Director, NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network writes about some common challenges that get in the way of our personal productivity and suck our energy like powering through your work day without taking a break. Train the brain to deal with chaos.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Abuja, Nigeria: Office 365: Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Abuja. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts In Cameroon. Upcoming Events. Africa and Middle East.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2008

" (Search for that title on the Universal McCann site.). Every time I glance at my inbox, I see another message about trainings like "Raising Money with Twitter" or "Fundraising in Facebook." " (We're guilty of it at NTEN, too: see the NTC agenda as evidence!). It's a bit of a misnomer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Mobile + Desktop = Universal Apps. Mukono, Uganda: Second Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. We hold free weekly webinars on topics like GrantStation and how to develop a tech training plan. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. The conference was similar to NTEN???s His post would be the perfect blog post.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester, and one of the premiere scholars in the ICT4D space, describes this shift aptly as a transition from ICT4D 1.0 To achieve this, it’s important first to ramp up efforts to strengthen university computer science departments. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

After receiving his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from George Washington University, Bob went to work in the nonprofit industry. Driven by the mission of "keeping customers for life", ASI developed iMIS to be easily upgradeable while also creating a world-class, global network of trained customer support staff.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The delegation included representatives from women’s rights foundations, a medical doctor and lecturer, a university vice-chancellor, and the head of the Women’s Status Unit of the Istanbul Governor’s Human Rights Department. Peg has international experience in education and training that provides her a unique perspective.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

A universal service for the masses. My one request is that vendors who comment on this blog take a moment to step back a bit from their myopia, and look at the ways in which they can contribute to a vibrant, active ecology of choices, rather than fight for their own little piece of the pie. { at 5:00 pm I think you make a GREAT point!!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's one of her training presentations. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. One last thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Amy Sample Ward from NTEN shared, from their recent Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report that only 4% of an organization’s budget, on average, was devoted to ‘technology’. Head to Training Central to sign up for our three-hour instructor-led Financial Edge: Grant Management class. People Are The Focus.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is universally perceived as grim stuff. Technology needs to be supported, and people need training, so we engage in a range of other activities like webinars, blogs, and forums to help nonprofits effectively use these donations. Award" from the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) and. expensive then).

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. A regular on the conference circuit, Amy has spoken at numerous conferences, workshops, and training days in the US, the UK and beyond.

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