NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

NTEN member and nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller just released the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , based on a survey of over 1200 participants at the end of 2011. Moreso than donation databases, nonprofits value websites and email marketing as parts of their core organizational data infrastructure.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. The community manager has been around longer than you may think – and I'm not trying to be like Malcolm Gladwell by drawing (questionable) parallels to pre-Internet practices. Do you need a Communications Manager or a Community Manager for these new channels?

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Management Communication Community NTEN 90

NTEN

MAY 10, 2013

I had decided in early 2011 that moving our small company from a physical office space to the cloud would be good for our business in a variety of ways: allow us to employ and contract with top-of-the-line workers and take advantage of cutting edge technologies for both internal and external communications and operations.

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Culture Change Management Nptech Leadership 89

NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for fre e! ] By Farra Trompeter, Big Duck 1. Decide your goals for communicating in social media.

Social Media 89

Social Media Personal Professional Media 89

NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

You, dear NTEN community, know the importance of technology in meeting your missions. Manage the organizational change that technology can produce. At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion from NTEN and Microsoft. For us, technology is more than e-mail servers or software installations.

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Leadership Tech NTEN Articulate 64

NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] But if you ask for a campaign that achieves tangible goals based on a sound theory of change, then you can get that too.

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Journal Sound Campaign Digital 82

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

In 2011, NTEN, with support from the Knight Foundation , convened the CTOs for Good forum and conducted follow-up interviews with the participants in order to document and share the group’s experiences and challenges. The group addressed a number of issues over the course of the year, many of which are reflected in this white paper.

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PDF Open Source Phase Interview 61

NTEN

JUNE 28, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]

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Facebook Volunteer Effective Tools 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]

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Org Leadership Technology Organization 77

NTEN

DECEMBER 12, 2013

I had decided in early 2011 that moving our small company from a physical office space to the cloud would be good for our business in a variety of ways: allow us to employ and contract with top-of-the-line workers and take advantage of cutting edge technologies for both internal and external communications and operations.

Culture 61

Culture Change Management Nptech Leadership 61

NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012.

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Social Media Collaboration Org Media 96

NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Reap some quick improvement with these easy four tips!

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Environment Tips Create Journal 63

NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a case study that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the entire case study in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] That additional custom training was what finally got all board members up to speed, he said.

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Case Study Michigan Collaboration Studies 69

NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth In the nonprofit world, we must listen carefully to our community.

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NTEN

JULY 13, 2012

The graphic above shows the average number of organizational staff supported by tech staff (60.18) according to our survey at the end of 2011, as well as the average number reported by Small ( $10M) organizations, respectively.

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Ratio Benchmark Technology Org 67

NTEN

JULY 25, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]

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Org Share Technology Tech 52

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measure Issue Impact Survey 81

NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Using Wikispaces, we created the Technology Leadership Initiative (TLI) wiki, and invited all stakeholders to be members, including project directors, IT staff, technical assistance providers, and members of the US Deptartment of Education -- a total of 50 members. The TLI wiki is enabling us to meet all of our goals. Fast forward to Jan.

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Case Study Culture National Network 69

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Maybe there's a donor list (updated by fundraising), a volunteer list (managed by the volunteer coordinator) and a fan list (engaged by the social media expert) and never the three (or more, as the case may be) shall meet. Does your social media team track and report changes and updates to the data? Does it need to be?

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Data Time Social Media Database 56

NTEN

APRIL 4, 2011

For those of you who have read Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard , by Chip and Dan Heath – or if you were at the 2011 NTC and saw Dan's Plenary – you've probably already started thinking about the Direct-Motivate-Shape the Path triumverate for helping people change their behavior.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. And when we fail, the donor would be notified at the same time as the executive director. It isn’t perfect. In fact, we think of it like a small bicycle on a freeway. But it is exactly what we wanted to get us started.

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International Project Org Technology 60

NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

[Editor's note: Ontario 211 and NTEN asked Ontario nonprofits about how they were using technology – and how they’d like to be using technology – for their work. What’s the biggest technology change you’ve implemented in your organization in the last few years? We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts.

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