Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. NpTech Social Media Wiki.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Brett Meyer, NTEN. Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society." Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Because it must! CivicActions blog: [link].

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. But if little ol' NTEN can pull off a BI strategy -- and we do our best over here -- so can you. Here at NTEN, we confused the two for a long time. Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. Let's bust a few BI myths.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Dahna Goldstein, PhilanTech, talked about reasons why tech changes fail: no leader/champion, no direction from the top, no context, lack of communication/poor communication and lack of involvement/empowerment. You can also listen to the audio ONLY by subscribing to the NTEN Podcast on iTunes. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. So this is the beginning of a series of posts on Web 2.0.

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