Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset. An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. NTEN www.nten.org/blog.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

Using data to drive your digital marketing campaigns is essential. Without the discipline of data, your digital marketing success is based more on hope than strategy and execution. Our corporate marketers understand the criticality of data all too well, especially retailers. Use small data (i.e. Use small data (i.e.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. That means all the knowledge behind NTEN resources – the how-tos, best practices, strategy tips, recommendations, etc. how do your train staff to use it?

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 12, 2011

NTEN just published a short piece of mine on data management in their Change magazine. The topic they gave me was managing decentralized data entry. It's in their DIY series -- short tips for implementing something for your organization without extensive tech know-how or extra budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Earlier this month I co-facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about storytelling with data from Alexandra Samuel.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Accounting & Operations Coordinator NTEN seeks an experienced full charge bookkeeper with nonprofit experience, also a natural and well honed talent for managing details and problem solving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

So first, what is data portability? Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

Data Collaborative. With a Cloud Platform, you can build a web application that will allow you to enter the exact data that is appropriate for your program, and then produce the exact reports, charts, emails and other output that you need. Eric Segal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

There is a fundraising software that will help your staff manage fundraising campaigns and donor data efficiently and engage and grow your donor base. Goals can include: Gain insight into donor data through reporting and data analytics. Cleaning up your database so you can “start fresh” with a new system. 2) Training.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Tim O’Reilly has a bang-on post about the fact that OpenSocial does not mean that users can have data portability. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2012

If you can use your data to better understand your audience and your activities, you can not only improve your outreach, but you can work more effectively towards achieving your mission. Here's what you need to do.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

By Holly Ross, Executive Director, NTEN Funders and donors alike have been chanting the same mantra recently: prove it. Data management will be one of the most important skills in our sector over the next decade, with implications that reach far beyond simply understanding our own organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

And by "it," we mean all of your legacy data, of course. No data migration project is easy. Data migration projects involving donor data (read: “highly degradable”) and the nonprofit industry (read: “technology shy”) are even more challenging. constituent database Data data migration Fundraising'

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Candid

JANUARY 9, 2025

This is what we at NTEN call technology effectiveness: staff reporting they have both the tools and the skills to use the organizations technology systems to do their job and meet the mission. Organizations need to realize that treating technology as a peripheral expense actually limits mission delivery and effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. Where are you finding/sharing data for your organization?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The increasing pressure on your nonprofit not just to do good work, but to prove your impact – coupled with the increasing use of databases and online services – has led to exponential growth in data within the nonprofit sector. Series Session Include: November 11: Defining Data: When Data is Everywhere, Where do You Start?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] The ability to easily see how all your constituents interact with your organization, and with each other, makes for an attractive, ideal vision of what a database should be. Include them all.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2013

Change Management Cloud cloud database cloud technology Data infrastructure in the cloud Leadership migrating to the cloud nonprofit IT infrastructure nptech IT Staff' Here are my top ten (and a bonus one at the end).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2014

Look to cloud-based solutions for your data woes. Over the years we’ve seen that the nonprofit world has particular difficulty with data accessibility. With limited human resources, the first priority of any nonprofit is (and should be) serving your mission, not shuffling data around.

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NTEN

AUGUST 27, 2012

As recently as the year 2000, especially for small nonprofits, the central database usually lived on one computer in the office. Once you got that list, you were lucky if your database had a report that helped you print mailing labels. Your best bet at understanding your data was having a staffer with pivot table skills.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Research and reports from NTEN that cover everything from the way fundraising tools are used to data integration, databases and vendors: [link] And if you’re looking specifically for information about various database/CRMs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 3 trackbacks } Product Blogs » Blog Archive » CiviCRM comes out on top in NTEN Survey 12.14.07

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

NTEN is looking for technology, community, and event lovers to join us in our work serving the nonprofit technology sector. Accounting & Operations Coordinator NTEN seeks an experienced full charge bookkeeper with nonprofit experience, also a natural and well honed talent for managing details and problem solving.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

[Editor's Note: We're talking about fundraising this month on the NTEN blog, and when you're fundraising, you've got to collect and track information about donors and donations, right? A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. Can you enter free-form notes to be referred to to later?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Data silos also create problems. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. An organization that owns its data and manages it correctly owns its distribution channels.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

As more data becomes available to us and the tools to understand it all become more user-friendly, nonprofits have an opportunity - even a duty - to use data to gain a more robust understanding of our work, the communities in which we work, and the impact we're making. Consider the case of the Portland Red Cross. Livestream Schedule.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

NTEN is trying to get a handle on all of this, and find out what people use, and how much they like what they use. I can’t wait to get my grubby little fingers on the data on CiviCRM and Salesforce. It’s such an interesting space, and there are some really intriguing things happening with software in that space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. The API is SOAP. apps out there.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

But what we really need is data. It seems like a simple thing: get out in the community, collect the data, do the math. But data collection can be painfully slow, and in some cases, lack of speed can mean the difference between life and death. Sure, we need will, we need vision, we need money. We need a lot of things.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) has a helpful definition of the cloud, stating, “Any software accessed over the Internet can be considered cloud software, including everything from Facebook to broadcast email tools … to online accounting systems and constituent databases.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet. Make sure access is secure. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Candid

JANUARY 9, 2025

This is what we at NTEN call technology effectiveness: staff reporting they have both the tools and the skills to use the organizations technology systems to do their job and meet the mission. Organizations need to realize that treating technology as a peripheral expense actually limits mission delivery and effectiveness.

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Policy Practice Technology Training 98

The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 18, 2025

Your nonprofits donor database has been compromised. Source: NTEN, Nonprofit Cybersecurity Report ) 70% of nonprofits lack a formal cybersecurity policy , making them easy prey for hackers. Source: Candid ) The average data breach costs nonprofits $200,000 money that could have gone toward your mission.

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