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Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#
Enter NTEN''s 501 Tech Clubs. Tech Clubs are driven by local leaders who step up to organize and plan group events with the support of NTEN. They created a Google doc with information regarding event promotion, logisitcs, and planning as a resource for speakers. PDX organizers.
Director of Security Consulting. If you use Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Salesforce, or Yahoo mail, you’re in the cloud. Matt Goche. Sungard Availability Services. How can a nonprofit protect the data it holds in the cloud?
At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.
[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The social media team includes the Deputy Director, the Special Projects Director, the Social Media Manager, the social media consultant, summer interns, and an outside content development consultant.
The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. QUESTION: NTEN just held an online fundraising benchmark webinar, where they talked about email open rates being low, and organizations raising something like $17 for every 1000 emails sent. Many people like using them. GARY: Ditto.
I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.
We're still not sure what the right way forward is - more straight up service projects, back to the one on one consults? NTEN has grown a lot in the last couple of years, and for the first time, we had different departments working on different aspects of the conference. NTCFail 4: Online agenda.
And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use?
This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant.
I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.
Use Google docs to share information and materials. She has more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and nonprofit consulting and serves as a strategic consultant to Ketchum and Pursuant Agency clients. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. In person, email, fax, mail, Twitter? You can read her full bio here.
Read the entire case study in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware When [NTEN Member] Andy Wolber worked for NPower Michigan—first as a consultant, then later as executive director—the organization had a geographically spread-out board of 10-15 members.
On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications. Here''s what they said.
This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). These capabilities, combined with the wealth of tools that can be plugged into a workflow, mean that staff can do in an afternoon what used to require and RFP and a paid consultant.
In the last month, NTEN staff have rested and recuperated (Jessica even traveled to China!), I realized that NTEN focused on people, not just technology, and I felt very welcome. I can''t believe that just one month ago we were wrapping up the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. Want to re-live the magic?
In Allen "Gunner" Gunn's opening plenary at NTEN's cloud computing event last week , he spoke passionately about the potential for cloud computing to transform organizational boundaries and barriers ( see the video of the session ; Gunner's keynote starts at 29:50).
Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content.
I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Can’t wait!
I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. I thought my name would link to email, alas no, so please email me at tspann [at] convio.com if you’ve got a case study of online/offline campaign integration. 12 David Geilhufe 01.27.09
And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password.
Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. Net Tuesdays are spreading around the globe! Tis the Season Is mobile fundraising the next frontier? There's a good case study of LinkedIn.
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