NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Not only is the student learning about analytics and giving back to the organization, but the organization is learning from the student as well. And you should.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NTEN is also fortunate to have the help of two great San Francisco-based organizations, VolunteerMatch and TechSoup Global , to help make the 2012 event a celebration of volunteer spirit. We need your help to get The Stride Center students interview ready! Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The movie also includes a mostly true scene featuring Zuckerberg’s anger-fueled all-night coding and hacking session at Harvard which produced Facemash , a site allowing viewers to vote on the attractiveness of female students which yielded 22,000 votes in one day, demonstrating the incredible coding abilities of then 20-year-old Zuckerberg.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. The Dartmouth Green. For another generation it's a convenience.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2012

NTEN's going to head up I-5 to Seattle on August 8th to put on a one-day workshop that will explore ways you can make data easier to manage, more useful, and mission-focused. Where : Student Center, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. When : Wednesday, August 8th, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Pacific Time. Cost : Free!

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2012

" A couple of years ago, my colleagues and I were spending over 150 hours a month on the phone trying to reach high school students in our program. Of those 6 minutes, less than a minute was actually spent talking to the student. The average call would take approximately 6 minutes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While on my site visit, Bogii did a presentation to a group of mining students (who are also hunters) to pre-test her poster and share her latest campaign updates. Tags: Mobile NPTech NTEN Program. Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

While we’re encouraged by some statistics our members released regarding nonprofits and technology, we’re also thrilled that anyone could like us this much: Thank you so much for all your help in the NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign , Corey Pudhorosky ! Charity Dynamics released statistics that made everyone here at NTEN excited!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Why do Imagine Cup students develop more field-based IT innovation in 9 months than nonprofits in 5 years? You can also listen to the audio ONLY by subscribing to the NTEN Podcast on iTunes. Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast. Tags: Leadership Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission NPTech NTEN ontc Planning.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Shirky observes that his female students tend to miss out on career opportunities because they rarely promote themselves like "arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks", as his male students seem far better able to do. Last year, Clay Shirky wrote a now-infamous blog post called " A Rant About Women ".

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Are our students learning? . Tags: NPTech NTEN data visualization 09NTC. Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

We're big supporters of democracy here at NTEN, so we encourage you to use all the tools at your disposal to help you make your decision and get it counted. With election day coming right up, Nonprofit VOTE was kind enough to share with us a bunch of ways technology can help you cast your ballot.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2012

We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. There's a high likelihood that you're not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

We want students to engage in learning because the learning itself was motivating to the student. As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Here are some examples: William Reynolds of the University of Virginia is going to teach his student council how to use social media to better communicate with students. Tags: mozilla mozilla service week NPTech Volunteers. First up is an “ Internet Health Check” with easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated. Technorati Tags: nptech

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an educator (and a social media neophyte), I was dismayed that – despite the scant five students in class – the instructor never asked us to introduce ourselves and discuss why we were there. She got pulled into #nptech as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Teaming for Technology 12 years ago, and has been asking "So what?" ever since.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

for engaging college students, faculty, and nonprofits, to involve them in helping develop, implement, and evaluate Research Matchmaker. Tags: 10NTC beth kanter dos NPTech. Group #040 - AIS for Health, Inc. Augmenting and Integrating Systems). Gail Heaberg | [link]. Consult Details: 1. Cheryl Daugherty | www.phcdc.com.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. . # 4 Interro-bang Since the dawn of the YouTube and Twitter age, we've seen people do some amazing things with this technology. Interro-Bang challenges young players with tasks that are centered on making a difference in the world.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

In Los Angeles, they"re hosting an event called "Access to Teknowledgy" for parents, teachers, students and staff at a local school. Tags: digital divide digital inclusion nathaniel james Newsletter NPTech NTEN onewebday. Please check out our Web site, send me an email, and follow us on Twitter @OWD.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Our members are researchers, parent/family educators, college faculty, students, therapists, counselors, and more. I work for the National Council on Family Relations, the premier professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. That's how I started my blog, by Googling, 'How to start a blog" There are also a lot of nonprofit technology resources out there where you can find more information like: NetSquared TechSoup NTEN Idealware Aspiration NPower Beth's Blog Wild Apricot Blog Four More Tips. Ask for help.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Upcoming Events. Or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The time invested, is hard to say.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The time invested, is hard to say.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why he got the award. Image five: NTEN. He had just turned 40.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes. up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity. Primary Pad. "Alright, who. Where do these people find the time?

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

Primary Pad is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity. "Alright, who inserted 'Bobby is a doody head' into my essay on climate change?"

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. And increasingly this includes High School students down the street. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Some rural areas, like the Missouri county mentioned by Kelvin Simmons, Commissioner of the Office of Administration, have "absolutely no broadband access," which keeps students from doing homework assignments that are placed on school websites. Tags: NPTech NTEN. FM , a community radio station serving the Kansas City area.

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