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Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. In contest news, NTEN member organization ZeroDivide has launched a great contest that combines poetry, social media, and good causes: the ZD Technology Haiku Contest ! 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.
The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. It isn??????t
Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;). Voting's open till Monday!
Flickr Photo: Paraflyer. Taglines are incredibly powerful, which is why I'm always so excited when our fantastic board member Nancy Schwartz launches her tagline contest, and now she's back for round three! . Tags: Getting Attention nancy schwartz NPTech NTEN tagline Communications. Say no more.
Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. NTEN Member Knight Foundation announced their latest Knight News Challenge: mobile.
NTEN members generally rock, but every week we try to give props where props are due. This week in NTEN member news: . In case you missed it, See3 staff have been guest-blogging on Care2 's Frogloop NTENny Beth Kanter captures online crowdsourcing, of a kind (Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg) this week. " to the post.
Flickr: Chad_Norman I'm a little late in getting last week's round-up up, but better late than never, right? M+R Strategic Services released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ( with NTEN ) last week, and Allyson Kapin wrote up some top take-aways. Tags: NPTech nten members. See more here.
Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. Take advantage of the summer special rate!
Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together! Interestingly, social media comes last.).
Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Sign up for the event or learn more here.
flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is.
There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.
Flickr: ThomasBrandt From the number of "out of office" replies I get anytime I send an email to the NTEN community, it looks like we're well into vacation season. It's the third season for this Barcelona and Switzerland-based organization's digital divide photo contest, and you're invited to participate.
poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. NTEN is hosting the Nonprofit Technology Poetry Slam at SXSW. Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ). We can't wait!
Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. You can write fundraising email copy in your sleep and hand code your e-appeal while making breakfast and watering your plants. You track metrics while you're on the treadmill (without falling off). You are fundraising email campaign ninjas!
There was an overwhelming amount of talent and stories shared through the contest! Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. On Wednesday, March 28 in San Francisco – and live-streamed online – TechSoup Global will screen and award the top photo and video entries.
3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting).
e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest.
Flickr Photo: licolnian Direct mail has been, and still is, the cornerstone of nonprofit fundraising. That's why we're excited to see a fantastic new contest out there: the Paperless Choice Challenge. . That's why we're excited to see a fantastic new contest out there: the Paperless Choice Challenge. .
Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. It's another thing for NTEN to lead in this area. Participatory. Collaborative. Good things will follow.
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. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.
Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. The question is "When is video a good.
We launched a digital photo contest through Flickr in 2005, not because we thought it was going to raise a ton of money, but because we thought we could launch the whole effort in just a couple of days.
Flickr: reid. Many of you know Annaliese as a great resource for any questions regarding all aspects of NTEN’s resources and nonprofit technology in general. Last year she changed her focus at NTEN to became our Research and Publications Director, and she’s already receiving huge honors for her work.
Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.
It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Flickr makes it easy to get started! Balderdash! Or the Women's Museum. ways to tell a story.
See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Details here.
Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Four years ago, web 2.0
Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." Hold contests. If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. Forum One's Facebook Page.
While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Several NTEN Affinity Groups have formed around social networking tools, including one called Social Networking Tools.
I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. I've organized social media workshops that also "give away" some equipment or software usually a contest. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week.
Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Details are here.
The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.
Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.
Oh, and Causes is an NTEN member, too!). Wiley is donating books to Mashable's #Stories4Good contest , a social media for social good initiative. You can see their Flickr photostream or available sessions slides via SlideShare. You can see their Flickr photostream or available sessions slides via SlideShare.
I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. A couple of years ago, NTEN articulated how broad adoption of open API’s could help nonprofits spend more time on their missions and less time de-duping their databases.
I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. A couple of years ago, NTEN articulated how broad adoption of open API’s could help nonprofits spend more time on their missions and less time de-duping their databases.
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