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GreatNonprofits.org’s 2010 Science and Technology Campaign, in partnership with Guidestar, NTEN, TechSoup Global, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Association for Women in Science, Inveneo, and Tonic, seeks top-rated nonprofits who are making a difference in the fields of science and technology. read more ).
NTEN is offering a chance to win a free registration for the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference this month. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech events case studies training crowdsourcing. read more ).
Working with the folks over at NTEN , we decided the nonprofit community itself should be empowered to recognize the people of their choice to win none other than a membership to the best nonprofit technology organization around, The Nonprofit Technology Network! Tags: 09ntc nten. So what are you waiting for?
It’s time again for the Nonprofit Video Awards from DoGooderTV , sponosored by NTEN & See3 Communications. If you were at the 08NTC last April, then you probably remember the awards ceremony for the 2008 contest. Tags: video nten 09ntc events ntc. Short-form Videos : any video under 5 minutes.
The Value-add of Crowdsourcing: For me, the two biggest reasons to include crowdsourcing in your strategic design of community building or contests are: Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participate. You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link].
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 ! Finally, I love it when NTEN members pat each other on the back: Michelle Murrain gives ONE/Northwest a nice shout-out for having a helpful nptech blog.
(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . include NTEN member organization Idealist.org. Members are in bold. Jordan Viator explains.
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. Lots of NTEN folks there, so support them with your votes! ).
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. This could be your organization in 2010!
Everyone nominated will be entered to win one of 50 free NTEN memberships , compliments of Convio ! Share the contest with your peers and increase your odds of winning each time you use the hashtag #nphero on Twitter. Tags: convio hero member. So what are you waiting for?
Tags: member appreciation NPTech NTEN Social Media video Communications. Thanks to everyone who attended the webinar and a special thanks to everyone who posted videos. We can't wait to see examples of how everyone uses what they learned in the webinar to create even more fantastic nonprofit mission-driven video.
" DoGooderTV Contest 2009 - Vote for your favorite Nonprofit videos - DoGooderTV's 2nd Nonprofit Video Awards have seen almost 400 submissions from 175 organizations and causes! The winners will be announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 25 in San Francisco. Tags: roundup bookmarks.
NTEN members generally rock, but every week we try to give props where props are due. This week in NTEN member news: . " GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. Fellow NTEN member Ryan Heneise gives his "here, here!
Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner. Tags: NPTech nten members.
(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NTEN. Members are in bold.
India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! I’m also a contributor to Socialbrite, NTEN, Women Who Tech and other industry leading collaborations. Tags: challenge socialchange competition entrepreneurship india justmeans social entrepreneurs. What do you think?
This year, See3, NTEN and YouTube received over 750 submissions for the contest - a record! Head over to YouTube and: The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation , plus custom designed Flip Video cameras to all finalists.
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. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Then we switched topics to Twitter.
NTEN folks probably know we're big fans of haiku (thanks in most part to Holly's particular appreciation of the form). We're glad to see member organization ZeroDivide shares our appreciation and is deploying it for educational and rewarding purposes: The ZD Technology Haiku Contest! Winners will be announced on Friday, May 1.
We recently asked the NTEN community. Congratulations to Becky Domegan, one of our two contest winners, who told us about her challenges: "As a 1-person IT shop, I strive to educate users in advance, but often find myself educating them after a problem occurs. Tags: NPTech NTEN ontc.
Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. " I agree.
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! It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing!
For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.
The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips. We Are Media Tactical Module 1: Listening by NTEN and Beth Kanter. Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Facebook Google Reader Listening Non-Profit social media Social Media Monitoring Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools Twitter YouTube.
It only enters one social media contest a year. Here at NTEN, we're in an interesting position. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. They simply don't have the staff bandwidth for more. I wonder, though, what other choices they're making. Do they have a large scale PR effort?
The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.
I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month! NTEN has two fantastic events this month! The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. You can read a case study about the winner of the first contest here.
The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. FAQs - Answers to all your most pressing contest questions.
Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!
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.
NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) NTEN’s WeAreMedia project has taken this a step further and uses Slideshare so trainers can remix each other’s decks. (7) 6) Training. 7) Fundraising.
For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. NTEN has published a useful quick “What’s This? Also, they’re being used in books.
It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Nature Conservancy Photo Contest.
Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. Tags: direct mail email paperless choice Fundraising. You can write fundraising email copy in your sleep and hand code your e-appeal while making breakfast and watering your plants. You are fundraising email campaign ninjas!
Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful!
Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications. A jealous Quinn is bitten with the spirit to serve as well when she learns that the two will be spending every Saturday for a month together at a senior citizen's facility. She convinces the rest of Glee to stage a show that they can all perform. OK, yeah, that's horrible.
If you've got free time and some design chops, you may want to consider entering their Design for Change contest; if you have mutton chops, you may want to consider shaving. Tags: americorps design NPTech. AmeriCorps Alums wants you to design their new logo. For more information or to submit a design visit: [link].
The online contest they ran recently , hiding pieces of their new album cover on different sites around the Internet, ought to give you some ideas. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Speaking of which, here are " Ten Practical Tips for Facebook Fan Pages " Now get out there and try to succeed!
We've run a video contest with See3 Communications for three years running now, and every year, we've more than doubled the number of entries. Tags: 09NTC michael_hoffman NPTech NTEN video. At some point, somebody at your org will probably say, "I know what we'll do! We'll make a video!" " It can be a good idea.
Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?
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. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Can’t wait! tools in context.
When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" " Duh: the NTEN community! > Learn more about the contest at [link]. The grand prize is $15,000. Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.
Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! The deadline for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations'' ''Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion'' online video contest is September 27th. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!
Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. 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. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.
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