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NTEN hosts regular " Ask the Expert " chats with people in the nonprofit technology field on a variety of topics. Today, the call was with Joe Green from Causes and the session was billed as " Does Slacktivism Lead To Real World Results? I had a few of both. One way is to add a TAB on your Facebook Page for your Cause.
Anna Jaeger and I will be participating in a very interesting online green IT workshop for nonprofits and foundations on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 from 10 a.m. The four hour event is open to everyone and is sponsored by NTEN and a new nonprofit green IT project that is forming called the Green IT Consortium (in which TechSoup is involved).
Here are just a few of the ways you can green your IT, or use IT to green your organization this Earth Day: Conduct a green office audit. Print green. Join the Green IT Consortium on LinkedIn. Buy green electronics. Tags: earth environment green greenpeace NPTech techsoup virtualization IT Staff.
A few months ago, I got to ask Joe Green, Founder of Causes, some questions. Now, you can get a turn thanks to NTEN. You know, YouTube videos, Facebook Groups -- a lot of the things we here at NTEN advocate. That's a question you should ask Joe Green , co-Founder and President of Causes. It's FREE for NTEN Members.
Join your NTEN colleagues ( tomorrow! ) Free and only for NTEN members. Broadband Access, NTEN Community Call (Wed, Aug 26): Learn about the issues and advocacy efforts regarding Broadband access and the nonprofit sector. Free and only for NTEN members. > Free and only for NTEN members. > Learn more and RSVP.
Each year, we at NTEN work hard to make the NTC a more environmentally sustainable event -- this year we even have carbon offsets for travelers! Check out our 13NTC Green Sponsors that help make all the NTC goodness possible: Artez Interactive. 13ntc Community event green nptech sponsors Program'
(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.) . And a green solution! Tags: community buzz nten member. Members are in bold.
Fine Blog Amy Sample Ward's Version of NPTech Beth's Blog Ext 337 Frogloop Getting Attention happykatie Katya's Nonprofit Markting Blog Mashable NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) ProBlogger TechSoup Wild Apricot Pals From Here to Autonomy Into the Studio One Love Alliance SurfPrayLove vale of evening fog Work It Out!
Anna Jaeger, TechSoup Global By now, you're probably aware that "green technology" exists. You might even be able to name a thing or two that would be considered green. In this article, I can barely scratch the surface of some of the more accessible green technologies. Green Software. Green Hardware.
Normally, I'd include NTEN member accolades in my weekly round-ups, but there were just so many NTEN folks represented on Mashable's list of the 75+ Environmentalists you should follow on Twitter , I figured it merited its very own post. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN twitter. Follow Danielle @starfocus.
This summer NTEN is hosting a series of five free webinars about cloud computing entitled Nonprofits & Cloud Computing: A Guide to Navigating the Nonprofit Cloud. The webinar series is available to everyone at no cost, whether you're an NTEN member or not thanks to a grant from Google.org. Register for the events here.
The third issue of NTEN's quarlerly journal for nonprofit leaders is free and hot off the press. Getting Started With Green IT for Your Nonprofit ," from Strategic Sustainability Consulting's Jennifer Woofter, which provides the foundation for why and how to lead your nonprofit to a "greener" bottom line.
Over the last few months NTEN has been surveying U.S. To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S. Learn More.
Karl Hedstrom, NTEN. It works out well, then, that one of my tasks each week at NTEN is the maintenance of our Organizational Dashboard. NTEN's Dashboard is a snapshot of our many different program areas and associated goals. Since then, however, NTEN's Dashboard has seen many improvements.
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! You can read more from Green America here.
Flickr: photofarmer NTEN has worked hard over the years to reduce the carbon footprint of our annual conference. This year, we''re formalizing our efforts and rolling out a new sustainability plan to help us be even more effective in ''greening'' the NTC. And we need YOU, our wonderful community, to help!
NTEN loves bringing the nonprofit technology community together, but we realize that our flagship event generates a tremendous amount of waste and CO2. As we’re all working to strengthen the nonprofit sector, it’s critical for us to be conscious of our social and environmental impact. This year – we need your help! Sound intriguing?
Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. I love Holly’s approach to technology. Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. at 7:33 pm Michelle – thanks so much.
From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing: Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTENnten members. What do y'all think?
This was followed by each of the evaluation questions (pre-recorded by NTEN's own Holly Ross) and a prompt for their answers. Tags: 10NTC Data Mobile NPTech NTEN IT Staff. We had local Atlanta phone number for attendees to call, at which point they were prompted to enter the Eval Code for whatever session they were evaluating.
Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources.
Greening Your Technology – [Cottonwood B] (#greentech). In this session, we will explain how to green your IT infrastructure and effectively use software and hardware to reduce the environmental impact of your operations. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation. Who : Speakers: Anna S. When : 1:30 p.m.
Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Tags: guest blogging nten social media socialmarketing storytelling. Now let's hear your philosophy!
There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching. For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008.
It''s official: my favorite holiday is NTEN''s Member Appreciation Month (MAM). Every November, we celebrate our NTEN Members with free webinar programs, local events, Member-generated content, and lots of prizes! Once again, NTEN Members made MAM a truly special celebration. We saved the best for last — the Grand Prize Winners!
In honor of the annual migration of children returning to school, NTEN member The Case Foundation is hosting a sweepstakes as part of their Be Fearless campaign. GOOD Maker, in a partnership with NTEN, announced Detroit's Green Economy Leadership Training (Solidarity) winner of their Use Technology for Good challenge.
Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET. Tags: NPTech community buzz online fundraising nten members.
I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. Many thanks to NTEN and Google for such a great event! The attendees I chatted with ranged from IT directors to accidental techies to the merely tech curious, all hoping to get a better handle on cloud computing. Image: Laura Dantonio.
The Dartmouth Green. One was seeing two coeds standing on either side of the road at the Dartmouth Green talking on a cell phone to each other as I walked by. At a recent NTEN chat , I pushed this a bit further, talking about the need to pay radical attention. To echo the classic Verizon ad: Can you hear me now?
As we wrap up the final week of Member Appreciation Month, we want to highlight a very special NTEN Story, from a very special NTEN Member, Beth Kanter: #NTENThanks to Beth for being such a vital part of the NTEN Community. Jay Geneske, Echoing Green. Thank you all for being NTEN Members!
There are a couple of rules: you must be logged into your YouTube account for votes to be registered; vote as must as you like, but only one vote, per person, per video, per day will be counted; winners will be identified by the highest number of green thumbs minus red thumbs. Why Vote What?
Flickr: magnuscanis This week, NTEN members are busy sharing ideas and experience on a range of topics. If you're interested in green IT opportunities , TechSoup Global is hosting a free webinar that discusses ways to save on your energy bill, new equipment purchases and how to navigate Energy Star's new low carbon IT campaign.
I don't mean some wear-a-red-outfit-with-a-green-hat, only-go-outside-to-buy-milk bullshit either. The most recent example comes from Holly Ross, Executive Director of NTEN, who is willing to loose her dignity to help $10,000 for the Nonprofit Technology Conference scholarship fund. Bunting raised $75,000! . To Rockefeller Center.
My point is that real currency, the silver and green stuff we lug around, is about to get an upgrade. And does anyone want to invest in one of these for the NTEN office? Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. Those chips clearly have nothing to do with my lack of will power.).
Of course there are some mavens and mavericks out there, including Social Media for Nonprofits keynotes and industry leaders Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Guy Kawasaki (upcoming programs include SF 11/4 , Atlanta 11/17 & NYC 1/30/12 , all produced under NTEN's gracious fiscal sponsorship).
And just last month, I used Twitter to raise $350 in a couple hours to help send the NTEN staff out for a relaxing excursion. Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. These examples show just some of the ways Twitter can enable real-time fundraising. Clearly it works.but why?
jazz, blues, zydeco) and a local green or environmental expert who can say a few things about the oil spill’s impact on the marine environment and the Gulf Coast economies associated with it." Tags: geoff livingston NPTech NTEN Social Media Program. I have a cassingle of " And We Danced " in my momento box to this day.
It’s been nearly five years since the first release of Idealware’s Consumers Guide to Donor Management Systems report, and two years since Idealware and NTEN last partnered to update the report. One of the systems we’ve profiled in detail, Little Green Light, costs less than $500 per year for a very small nonprofit.
Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it. (In
A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.
NTEN has published a useful quick “What’s This? As SFGMC continues to “go green,&# we have for the first time made our concert program available on line pre-show. Leaked screenshots indicate Facebook’s experimenting with profile or status QR code generation on fan pages, according to TechCrunch.
Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. [Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.
Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge.
Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. Don''t worry though, we can help you change that. She started the Radical Tech blog for Fast Company focusing on trends in technology and Web 2.0
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