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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.
On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. .
and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. We also read through all of the NTC evaluations! We didn''t want to split up these post-NTC conversations so have sacrificed brevity in the hopes of completeness. , launched into planning and logistics for the inaugural Leading Change Summit (coming this September 3-6!),
It's no surprise, then, that she's tackling the topic of " The Softer Side of Tech Consulting " at the 2009 NTC. . Anyone who's done consulting work knows that your technology skills aren't the most important part when it comes to being a good consultant.
I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. Volunteers had the option to do a strategy consult and stay at the hotel or leave the building and go on-site.
Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. In addition to the one-on-one consulting (captured by WeAreMedia Flickr BootCamp folks), a large group of nonprofit techies headed out to install two wireless networks, with equipment provided by Cisco, at the St.
Photo from the first Day of Service that Cheryl and I coordinated in Orlando 2002 with Joel Remegio. For the past 7 years, one of my gigs has been to organize the Day of Service for NTEN's NTC. We even won the Swimming Upstream Award!
I have a number of colleagues who I have been seeing almost every year at the NTC for the past decade. This year we have over 100 volunteers to install a wireless network or work with local nonprofits on strategy consults. The remaining techies will work one-on-one with almost 60 local organizations providing strategy consults.
Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. Bernard leaves 8:45 Strategy consults at hotel - 9-11 Wireless Network Installation team returns to hotel - noon Training Team for Center of St. Thursday, March 20 10:30-Noon So you want to be a consultant?
Flickr Photo by Trainer62 You may have noticed there's a lot going on at the NTEN court as of late -- new nten.org (just look around), release of the NTEN Data Ecosystem Report , NTC Scholarship Campaign , the NTC , and a great line-up of webinars ! Consultants RoundTable. Hosted by: Jeffrey Forster. February 11.
Flickr Photo: dannebrog It's more than easy for someone to spread the word -- it's STUPID easy. It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. social media nancy schwartz 09NTC.
Flicker photo: Express Monorail We're through the first week of our fundraising campaign for the #10NTC scholarship campaign , and we're getting close to halfway to our goal. . We've got a long list of scholarship applicants we want to bring to the NTC, and we need your help to do it. Catherine Algeri. Johanna Bates.
Photo by Halloween Jack. Last week when I was Society for New Communications Research conference, I ran into KD Paine , who shared a copy of an ebook by Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It?
Alternative Technologies : "The Doctor Is IN": Alternative Technologies will have a Senior Network Consultant at their Science Fair booth, available to answer any technical questions you want to pose. Idealist Consulting : Idealist Consulting will be raffling off an ipod shuffle. Charity Dynamics, Inc.
Flickr Photo by Las-Initially. I’m a consultant and university professor who specializes in pitching, for crying out loud, and I still mess up! Understand. In that order. Is this pitching stuff easy? I do it for a living. You will, too. Failing is healthy and it’s part of the deal. When in doubt, take a failure bow and move on.
Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service ! I saw that you just signed up for the NTC Day of Service (bless you).
TechSoup will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on Office 365; exhibiting at the NTC Science Fair; speaking at plenary events, breakout sessions, and a "Birds of a Feather" lunch; and facilitating networking opportunities. Office 365 for IT Staff and Consultants Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Johanna Bates, who has worked for a community organization in Massachusetts that will close its doors at the end of year, will venture in the world of consulting.
Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.
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Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. One way to show value back to management is to paint a picture of not having a community or community engagement strategy, and the associated costs and losses.
Instead of running throughout the entire conference -- and competing with everything else on the agenda -- the Science Fair takes place only on the first day of the NTC, and it's the sole focus of the conference at that time. Stop by the Convio booth to register for your chance to win a FREE Marketing Audit with one of our top consultants.
Gina, Beth, and Aliza at the NTC. ” So, was delighted that Gina was able to join Aliza and I for this year’s NTC session on the topic. My goal is to have so many of us, we need to ask someone else to take the photo. When I consult, I work at home, and use the kitchen island – thing as a standing workspace.
Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. That's enough meta for now.
Some people work one-on-one with organizations consulting on anything from technology budgeting to online social media strategy. We will continue to innovate in our communities and organizations and we will all look forward to gathering around the campfire again next year in Atlanta, GA for NTC 2010!
NTC is just days away! The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary.
Flickr photo: Gilberto Viciedo In her book " Zilch" , Nancy Lublin recounts the time she was seated next to "The Donald" at a play. The sticker-trading game at the NTC? Our roundtables for IT Staff, Communications folks, and Consultants? So you're in the not-for-profit sector. You don't find that boring?"
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