Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

NTEN has just announced its forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. It was written by NTEN members for nonprofit leaders who want to harness the power of technology to support their work. . Each chapter was written by an NTEN member including me!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. I'm honored to have a chapter in the book about ROI and you can hear geek out about it here. I did a panel presentation at the NTC conference in April on the chapter as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

NTEN is hosting the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference taking place on September 16 and 17th. If you are on the fence about signing up, NTEN is offering up 25% discount. My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. Tags: nten ROI. You can register here.

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MARCH 28, 2011

, Susan Chavez Managing Stakeholders: The art of managing up, down, and across , Sadie Honey Mixing Business and Pleasure: Managing your personal and professional brand in social media , Martin Dooley Mobile invasion , Susan Chavez My first #11NTC Conference , Noland Hoshino Notes from Nonprofit Blogging affinity group , Emily Weinberg Pros and cons (..)

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MARCH 19, 2013

Last year, for her work on NTEN's Change journal, she received the 2012 Publishing Trendsetter Award. Last year, for her work on NTEN's Change journal, she received the 2012 Publishing Trendsetter Award. Please join me in congratulating Annaliese on a terrific tenure at NTEN and a great new chapter.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Don't worry about expanding or altering the policy for different audiences such as board members, key volunteers, or chapters until you have a good basic policy written. NTEN Community Values. white lindy dreyer maddie grant Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Refer to other organizational policies in your social media policy. Mayo Clinic.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. " Unfortunately, no one from NTEN will be in-person at the event, but Holly will be Skype -ing in for a session. One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese. Tags: Fall Conferences holly ross NPTech NTEN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In the book, this section (taken from Chapter 2 ) is twice the length seen below. A good social-media manager is a regular reader of Mashable , TechCrunch , Social Media Today , Social Times , Mobile Marketing Watch , All Facebook , About Foursquare , Nonprofit Tech 2.0 , Beth’s Blog , TechSoup , NTEN , and other such blogs.

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MAY 4, 2011

When I took the helm of NTEN just a few short years ago, I really wish someone had handed me a book that outlined all the stuff I was now supposed to worry about: finance, legal, human resources, and of course technology.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Tags: Advocacy christine egger NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes.

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MAY 3, 2011

I contributed a chapter to this book and what I really loved was my editor, Darian Heyman’s formula. NTEN is hosting a webinar with Darian to discuss the book and share some of the wisdom. Start with a framework to help structure thinking around the topic, but share your best wisdom, tips and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

We began the Book Club by carefully crafting a couple questions per chapter, and focusing on about one chapter per week. We quoted the book, took inspiration from the questions listed at the end of each chapter, and attempted to lead a traditional book club on Facebook. It was working pretty well as planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the NTEN team: John Kenyon. John has been with NTEN since the early days when we were just 200 members. John authored the chapter “Effective Online Communications” in the NTEN book Managing Technology to Meet your Mission (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2009).

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MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It caught my eye because we’ve working on a chapter about how nonprofits can make the shift to a “data-driven culture. &#. Holly Ross at NTEN and I chatted about the myth of data-driven nonprofits and how this is slightly different with mission-driven organizations.

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APRIL 27, 2009

From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. He’s got a whole chapter dedicated to this subject in NTEN’s new book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission ! Takeaways: 1. Resources: Further information and relevant links are at the Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission wiki: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

At a small organization like NTEN, a leader has to be ready to do just about everything, from fundraising to janitorial services. I'd been at NTEN for five years before I took the ED job, so I was lucky enough to know what I was doing -- mostly. Chapter 1: Mission First: Achieving IT Alignment (Steve Heye). PART TWO: THE TOOLS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

There's the NTEN member reception at noon. My friends at the Nasscom Foundation will be attending the conference and have a fantastic networking opportunity. There will also be six book signings at NTC and I've contributed a chapter or been an author of four of them!

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MAY 23, 2012

Consider Habitat for Humanity (HFH) – in this case, a mid-west chapter. Their main argument against it was that while managing all the information in one location is tempting, it not practical if the organization has multiple complex processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Feedburner.

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JUNE 12, 2014

NTEN 501 Tech Clubs are informal, local groups that meet regularly in many cities. In honor of our June theme of "Tech Leadership," we asked NTEN''s great Tech Club organizers to help us understand why they answered the call to nonprofit tech leadership in their communities. I learned about NTEN when researching for this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2017

What I like is that each chapter includes a good summary of the content, plus an imagination challenge where we can work our imagination muscles. So, I wasn’t surprised to see a chapter on this important topic, but appreciated how Brian’s thinking about it has evolved.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

For John Kenyon , who authored a chapter on this topic in Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , that's the key to a strong web presence. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast. Tags: email enewsletter NPTech NTEN ontc webistes website. As nonprofit staff, we're passionate about our work; we have to be!

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JUNE 18, 2009

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. That's the topic of the book chapter I'm currently writing. Use pilot projects to get credible numbers. So, stay tuned.

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MARCH 19, 2009

And when I say "we", I mean the NTEN community. Fourteen NTEN Members contributed to the 11 chapters in Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. Ten of our authors will join us on the line to talk about their chapters and answer your questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My colleague, Steve Heye ,and fellow chapter author for the NTEN book, Managing Your Mission To Meet Technology , created the above slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career. Lots of great stuff here!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined this quarter''s NTEN Town Hall! I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. NTEN Update NTEN staff met in Portland for our winter staff meetings earlier in January. We call it the "rain drops".)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! NTEN has two fantastic events this month! Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast. Tags: Fundraising madeline stanionis NPTech NTEN ontc. " Madeline Stanionis wants you to know that this is NOT how you raise money online. In fact, one of the maddening things about online fundraising is that there are so few rules, so few things that will work for every organization. .

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JUNE 28, 2012

Fortunately, the NTEN community is making it easy this year. Submit your ideas for the opportunity to win a $2500 grant and a free NTEN Membership. In her words, Jenica "took many of the skills that [she] learned in the NTEN leadership academy and from the 2012 conference to put together a script and small communications plan."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. NTEN has also used a similar crowdsourcing techniques to shape the NTC conference agenda. The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone.

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JULY 16, 2014

Learn how a chapter of AHA took their online content on the road and to fundraising success. Tim Sae Koo. No one puts The American Heart Association's website in a corner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. And, the prices is right: free.”.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A frequent speaker at national events who also donates his time to serve on several nonprofit advisory boards, Casey is currently writing two books on technology and philanthropy, and has contributed a chapter to “Do Your Giving While You Are Living.". Tags: Leadership NPTech NTEN Social Media.

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