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APRIL 2, 2014

If you have any question, send me an email ! change management Change Management Digital Strategy intensive it Leadership Leadership nonprofit tech academy NTA social media Staffing Strategy IT Staff' Mellon Foundation, we''re able to offer the Nonprofit Tech Academy at no charge to qualifying organizations.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." If you're a member of NTEN, you can read the entire thread and particpate here.). Here are some excerpts: Amber Eastman Black, Rosenberg Fund for Children.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. So today we hosted a community community call -- recording and chat transcript here -- to tackle the need for change and what it might mean for our sector. We need a culture change.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Recently NTEN posed an interesting question to us: Is there a connection between cloud technology and innovation in nonprofit organizations? This article explores that question. Change Management Cloud Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit cloud nonprofit innovation nptech Organizational Culture Staffing Strategy IT Staff'

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

If the words "executive" or "chief" do not appear in your job title, you may think you're not in the right position to lead a successful technology change. Here are a few things you can do to challenge that assumption and become a technology change leader. Ask them questions and really listen to the answers.

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MAY 20, 2013

Because we know that the term "IT Staff" means something very specific to people, and the concept of who is "IT Staff" has not changed as rapidly over the last few years as the role of technology in an organization has. So, how did these various question formats impact responses/results?

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JANUARY 24, 2012

While NTEN can't offer a crystal ball (or insider knowledge, for that matter) about the specifics of the decisions or details about products, we CAN provide a safe, un-biased platform to explore questions, concerns, and possibilities surrounding the transition and the possible impact on the wider nonprofit technology landscape.

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JUNE 5, 2014

Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management. Here are some questions to keep the focus on what matters when making tech investments for a nonprofit. Change Management Leadership nonprofit technology planning strategic planning IT Staff'

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JULY 7, 2014

The pursuit of social change globally requires visionary thinking regarding a nonprofit's IT strategy. The question these groups must ask themselves is: why is now the time to modernize (and, in some cases, develop) an IT strategy to help achieve both the long and short-term goals of the organization? Karen Appleton.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 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've also hired a Social Media manager, which is a new position for us.

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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. Your mission?

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JUNE 5, 2012

What can the nonprofit community learn from NTEN's own journey toward demonstrating its impact with data? That is a question most nonprofit folks can answer pretty easily. Now that's a different question, one that's not as simple to answer for most of us. What does your organization do?".

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. Feature: Tools for Project Collaboration Management ," from Idealware's Kyle Andrei. Three Lessons for Avoiding a House of Cards, from NTEN's Holly Ross.

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JULY 19, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Managers need to make sure the right questions are being asked. But if you ask for a campaign that achieves goals based on a sound theory of change, then you can get that too.

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JUNE 5, 2012

NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more. > Since 2006, NTEN has produced the annual Nonprofit Technology (formerly "IT") Staffing and Investments survey and report for the nonprofit sector. Will that improve how our organization works on our mission?

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APRIL 5, 2013

Maybe there are monthly brown bag lunches where staff can ask the in-house experts questions? Jamie Millard , client relationship manager for Fast Horse , an innovative, integrated agency offering traditional and non-traditional marketing services, specializes in understanding audiences and digital media strategies. and on and on.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Think ahead for changes or growth in your organization. Ask the Right Questions There are lots of books and websites about how to answer the typical interview questions. There aren't nearly enough about asking the right questions. Any decent interview candidate is ready for the basic questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We'll include a live question and answer and a back channel discussion with experts and practitioners sharing their expertise and knowledge. The back channel will be moderated by even more experts, who will add additional insights and answer participants questions. This event is only $50 for NTEN members and you can register here.

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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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JUNE 1, 2011

NTEN's newest publication is free and hot off the press. In it you'll find: "Facebook for Volunteers," from Idealware's Chris Bernard, which tackles the question of whether Facebook can be an effective volunteer recruitment and engagement tool. Two Case Studies from Idealware and TechSoup.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

They should then immediately follow that question with: “Should they be a qualified professional?” Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

A commodity is a technology that is transactional in nature and may improve your efficiency but does not fundamentally change your business. But how often do you step back to ask questions like: How can use our website to communicate differently? How can we change our process to use our CRM better?

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MAY 27, 2010

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" You keep trying and you change your approach to meet each situation. John Merritt, YMCA of San Diego County and Steve Heye, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

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MARCH 19, 2011

[Sketch by Hong Yee Krauker created on an iPad with Sketchbook Pro The Friday plenary session at the NTC featured Dan Heath, Co-Author of Flip the Switch, and was all about organizational change. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Change is hard."

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JULY 27, 2011

One of the things we're tracking in NTEN's annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending report is where IT is located within organizations -- as in, where the primary IT staff are in the organizational structure. So these numbers beg the questions: Just how important is organizational structure to organizational technology adoption?

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APRIL 5, 2012

Read the complete article in the current issue of NTEN's new quarterly e-journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The questions that follow, and the additional reactions to my answers, have revealed five common – and costly – myths that many executive directors have about nonprofit communications.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware (Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the feature article "Boosting Board Collaboration " , which appeared in the first issue of NTEN's new publication: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. Read the entire article and the complete issue by subscribing online.)

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JULY 25, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] What became abundantly clear almost at once was that I was asking the wrong question. We'd also love to hear YOUR responses to Rebecca's question. and “who is going?” Everything starts with vision, Schert says.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Please leave your suggestions, stories, and questions in the comments below! [Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. They tackled tough questions such as: “we’ve never put together a podcast, how will we practically make this happen AND work through the learning curve?” By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

There are some new questions this year about communications goals, how you think you'll actually spend your time, and which social media sites you are likely to add or try in 2013. > We're looking forward to another year of insights from this study, so we hope you'll contribute your perspective to this year's study!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Consider using an outside facilitator to help develop questions and protocol and to help identify themes from your data. One benefit of focus groups is the ability for participants to feed off each other’s energy and bounce ideas off one another.

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JUNE 27, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. They taste many wines to find the best of the best to appropriately complement (even enhance) the food in the restaurant.

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JUNE 4, 2014

And how can tech staff change their perceived roles within their organizations? I hear this question a fair amount from tech staff. Change Management IT Planning tech leadership Tech Planning IT Staff' Why is it, then, that IT staff are so rarely invited to the table during the strategic planning process?

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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. Today's Community Manager had her start in the chat rooms and discussion/support forums of yesteryear.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations. Things are changing. Most of these management books define the problem as a lack of ownership. Is your organization?

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