NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A grant money giveaway and a renowned speaking event are just a taste of the goings-on: In June we learned that as part of their 'Be Fearless' campaign, NTEN member the Case Foundation would be a primary sponsor of TEDxMidAtlantic 2012 and that the event's theme would also focus on 'Be Fearless'.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

What is the cost of alternatives or not investing? Compare costs of alternatives, cost/benefit, and cost of not doing. This article is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's new book , " Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission " which includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for successful ROI projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I'm hoping you've already heard some of the buzz about this, but in case you haven't, November is all about NTEN showering our members with appreciation (and free stuff!). And,voila: So, congrats, Ashli Cooper, from Eckered Youth Alternatives , you're getting the book, which was donated by Wiley/Jossey-Bass. NPTech nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

The 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , conducted by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN , examines data from 55 nonprofits in sectors ranging from rights to environmental issues. Some more alternatives and discussion from nonprofit folks here. This year’s study – the seventh Benchmarks report – analyzes 1.6 Retweet Lab.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

We're big supporters of democracy here at NTEN, so we encourage you to use all the tools at your disposal to help you make your decision and get it counted. As an alternative, voters can always use our 50 state map to find their state’s official poll finder tool or the phone number for their local election office.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2013

Let us do a quick dive into this term and discover what responsive design is all about, why it is important for nonprofits and, most importantly, what your alternatives are if responsive design is not the best fit for your organization. It is 2013, and the mobile buzzword is “responsive design.” What is Responsive Design?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

It’s been nearly five years since the first release of Idealware’s Consumers Guide to Donor Management Systems report, and two years since Idealware and NTEN last partnered to update the report. There are lots of lower-cost alternatives profiled in the report as well. You can download the free report here.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

On a smaller scale, NTEN's own web analytics show that, by and large, our carefully considered, better written, longer blog posts yield much longer time-on-page, particularly during the first few days they're up, than our regular, written-for-the-web fare. Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. He is, of course, correct.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. What are costs of alternatives? Next, consider the costs of alternative solutions including competing providers or different approaches. What are the costs of doing nothing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

It seems cool, and a great alternative to freconference.com. And it’s free, too. Asterisk made it possible for the company to provide this service without huge infrastructure costs. I look forward to seeing more of what kinds of new and interesting tools can be powered by Asterisk under the hood.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

An alternative pattern to any technology network is “hub and spoke”, where all computers, devices and peripherals are connected to a central computer or hub. NTEN has a great resource to help you think about your data strategically – I highly recommend it. For example, financial, outcomes, fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Weather forced the cancelation of ASAE's Tech10 conference , but in a matter of days, nptechies organized an alternative, the UnTech10. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Fresh, hot 10NTC podcasts. You can subscribe on the front page of our new web site. Materials are available online , with a side of awesome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.)

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

Luckily NTEN members never cease to contribute their wealth of knowledge to the nonprofit tech community. Idealware expressed their disappointment and points to some alternatives to Google Reader to consider. We all want to make a difference and even the most expert nonprofiteer can always use guidance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

There were several snags: A bug in Ubuntu which prevented the “visor&# driver from being loaded at startup Gnome-pilot/evolution can’t sync more than one calendar category or one addressbook, or one to do list category, even though the palm has multiple categories Another bug in Ubuntu which causes sync to crash if there are to do items (..)

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

For others, it’s about taking a thought leadership position and leveraging that position to speak at prominent tech conferences, or embracing a set of ideals and finding open source alternatives to address your technical needs. digital inclusion equity Leadership tech leadership'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2011

Alternately, you can also ring a cash purchase or input the number of a card that refuses to swipe. You tap on the photos of the t-shirt and the book to add them to the sales slip. Then, you swipe the customer’s card, have them sign the next screen with their finger, and input their email to send a receipt.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

There are also CAPTCHA alternatives to consider, such as Mollom , Akismet , and Defensio. Provide text alternatives: Whether using the ALT attribute on an image , furnishing a full transcript of an audio podcast , or embedding captions in a video , every media file must have a corresponding text version available.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Photo by Cell105 Note from Beth: Last week, I hunted down the nonprofit panel proposals for SXSW including one submitted by me on crowdsourcing social change (see the NTEN blog post ). There was a panel on slacktivism which caught my eye and later I spotted this post by Ali Cherry unpacking the concept.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

PCI Compliance - are there good alternatives to having your own / any good? Cross fertilization in leadership groups like NTEN and AFP - suggestion from phone: bring in Fundraising (or other, per topic) expert from other organizations (like AFP) to participate or help plan content for that track. "I built it. why didn't they come?"

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

Many of the exhibitors will be giving away prizes (see below) and because we love prizes, NTEN will be giving away some exiting prizes at this show as well! Alternative Technologies specializes in providing computer networks, telephone systems, copiers and security cameras to nonprofits across the Bay Area. Charity Dynamics, Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

NTEN , Idealware , and Connecting Up also offer social media training for nonprofit professionals. Of course, Canva and PicMonkey are low-cost, do-it-yourself alternatives, but having a new media manager skilled in Adobe Photoshop is very valuable. Experiment with Crowdfunding. Take regular breaks from technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

My husband and I would alternate stealing minutes anywhere we could work, and it wasn’t adding up to much. The post An Unlikely Story of Digital Success in 2020 appeared first on NTEN. My boss had been tracking my progress and gave me permission to be totally honest about my situation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In the four years that I’ve been responsible for planning and negotiating conference A/V and other technology expenses for NCFR, I’ve had my eye on mobile broadband as a potential lower-cost alternative for providing internet access.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

If you don't want your news "pre-chewed"; by large corporations, your only alternative is the Internet. Tags: digital divide network neutrality Newsletter NPTech NTEN sheldon mains. Pew Internet and American Life Project. The Internet and the Recession . Save the Internet project of Free Press.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS. The number of situations where one can still argue on a functional and cost level that proprietary software is a better bet get fewer and fewer.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

Fortunately, we have a great alternative: the Online NTC. So, if you've been putting off that registration, don't wait much longer. We hate to turn people away, but we won't have a choice this year.

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