Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. One survey participant referred to her phone as a "lifeline," further adding: "With a reliable cell phone, I will be able to function as an independent person.

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TechImpact

MAY 6, 2014

The intuitively named marketing trend refers to a marketers ability to communicate a message effectively to a consumer via their mobile device. There’s been some push back lately regarding the technology behind mobile marketing, whether or not it is viable, and questions generally surrounding its effectiveness. (xAd, xAd, 2012).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

(Note: I've changed up the format slightly to frame these round-ups around your success stories, your stories about working on "getting things right" on your job and with your organization with the help of technology. Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!).

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Also, the file is landlocked, unless the most recent version is emailed for reference. In an article posted originally on Beth Kanter’s blog , according to Tal Frankfurt of Cloud for Good, making the switch to Salesforce from an old outdated Excel spreadsheet aided him in doubling the amount of donations he received in a 12 month period.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

[This is part three of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. leadership makes technology decisions based on efficiencies, with little-to-no input from staff/consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 16, 2010

But what of those Twitter users who link to yourwebsite or blog post without specifically using your group’s name? sure, Google can catch those references if you’ve set up a news alert for your website domain name – but not if the tweeter uses one of the shortened URLs that are ubiquitous on Twitter.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! " (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Teaser: The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) conducts an annual Community Survey to find out more about the individuals and organizations in the NTEN community. We want to find out how you , the individuals and organizations who make up this community, use technology in your work. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). JustGiving blog: Seven-year-old Charlie raises more than £100,000 for Haiti!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

I came across a post from Kevin Lim who writes about social technology and recently posted some information from his Intro to Blogs Workshop. His focus not on the writing process, but the importance of reading blogs and knowing what's going on out there. Technorati Tags: ntc , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag."

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tal Frankfurt has a nice round-up on his blog about #nptech articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Site Insights: 10 most visited pages on the site, top 10 referring sites, and top 10 exit pages (How can you improve the content on pages where you are loosing people’s attention?).

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Members are in bold.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2013

Give them the lowdown on the people and organizations making use of technology for the betterment of the community and YOU AND YOUR NOMINEE could win a FREE registration to SXSW Interactive (happing March 7-11, 2014). Check out their blog to see what they''ve learned. member news Member Round Up nptech' Idealware to the rescue!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Read more posts on our blog. No, no: they're all nptech-related. Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead , Charlene Li. It was a Tron: Legacy reference. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. So, congrats!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . We will use technology to stay in touch and collaborate on ideas. Together we can do it.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The article is black and white: Gladwell is clearly oversimplifying the situation, creating a false dichotomy between (social) network based movements and the hierarchical system that helped propel the Civil Rights movement forward, specifically the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 , which he references throughout the article. Yes, I'm doing it to.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. Wikis/Blogs. William (Bill) Lester, NPOKI. Mobile phones. There are bugs.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Here's an example : What next : You now have a chart that can be referred to daily, across the organization! Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program. A note about DIY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2008

NpTech Punk. Edupunk, it seems, takes old-school Progressive educational tactics--hands-on learning that starts with the learner's interests--and makes them relevant to today's digital age, sometimes by forgoing digital technologies entirely. Stephen Downes has a roundup of the references by other edtech bloggers here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Also sometimes referred to as a “Twitter party,” a tweet chat is a live discussion that happens on Twitter; tweets in the discussion thread are identified by the use of a common hashtag (for example, #nptech is a common hashtag used to discuss nonprofit technology topics). Do you know what a tweet chat is?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 In the Salesforce world, those charity technology mission components are not driving forces. On some Joolma forum, I read a reference to vtiger and Joomla, but that was from 2005! 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2005

Not too long ago, a researcher looking at early childhood and technology asked me for permission to include a reference to my post, " Mommy, what's a blog ?" Technorati Tags: nptech , nptechkids , net2 " Today, I discovered the future: Miniscobleizer !

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. The dynamics of innovation and technology mean that the next generation of charity applications are being built in the cloud. Technology, however, is never enough. A Little Dose of Caution.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. The dynamics of innovation and technology mean that the next generation of charity applications are being built in the cloud. Technology, however, is never enough. A Little Dose of Caution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs. Click To Play.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

CoP's offer groups within the nonprofit technology sector an online space to connect, as well as the opportunity to hold monthly webinars or discussion phone calls. Designed with peer knowledge sharing in mind, CoP's aim to provide an established point of reference along with a network of support and resources.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Ease of use - technologies that delight you and those that frustrate you. Beths Blog.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

References: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] The post Static Site Generators – Technical Requirements, Options & Migration first appeared on John Kenyon - Nonprofit Technology Educator & Strategist. Second, you’ll need a place to host the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and media. We wish you happy generating!

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