Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 at 1:34 pm Michelle, Just curious what you thought/opinion is of widgets? at 8:03 pm I like widgets, for the most part. But there are some very cool and fun widgets. 4 Beth 11.01.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Sproutbuilder is this amazing drag-and-drop widget maker you’ve just gotta try ( invite here – just start, and it will prompt you to create an account when you want to save your sprout.) Carnet Williams, of nptech fame, did a demo of Sprout at Demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2009

I love widgets. A lot of you have probably heard about the recent success of a Toronto blogger who combined a fundraising widget from Chip-In with the networking power of Twitter to raise over $14k in about 2 days. There's so much potential for fundraising, advocacy, and general outreach. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2009

I'm proud of the team here at NTEN for putting together an event that is so valued by the community. See the nifty little widget at the top of this post? Big props, of course, to Convio for making this possible, and to Sprout for giving our account a nice upgrade so our widget would look better! . Tags: NPTech 09NTC.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2009

Here are the resolutions I have for NTEN: 1. NTEN will experiment with widgets, Facebook, and a few other things this year. Tags: nptech npecon. We should all look at what we'll need to accomplish, the environment in which we'll do it, and promise ourselves a couple things about how we'll get that work done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Social Network Fragmentation.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 SO much work on fundraising widgets, but so few vendors in the case management space and even fewer providing an open API. at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head! I can’t agree with you more.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Perhaps it was some of those that can help to account for the NTEN community's busy week. NTEN member Consumers Union announced the beginning of a closed beta cycle for their new digital storytelling platform, stori.es. "The Learn more about this neat resource and, while you're there, check out the video of the day.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets.

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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. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I especially like to look at the "% New Visits" metric, to find the topics that are encouraging more people to look into NTEN's resources. In making the screenshots for this piece, I was surprised to see how many people use the "Share This" widget instead of the straight "Like" or "Tweet" buttons. And you really should.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". That's gotta feel good.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Provide graphics, widgets, whatever is going to make their viral marketing more effective. NTEN board member Nancy E. Tags: NPTech branding marketing NTEN Newsletter web2.0 Make it easy for your network to spread the word correctly, avoiding confusion, misunderstandings, blow ups, etc. social media nancy schwartz.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Integrate your real-time communications channels into your website, for example, by using Twitter or Facebook widgets or RSS feeds that bring the live conversation to your site. Tags: kivi leroux miller Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. But only after you’ve made room for those answers, stories, and interactions.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

And, in a long-standing tradition dating back at least last year, we've made a new NTC Sprout widget you can install on your Facebook profile, MySpace page, blog, or whathaveyou. It's entirely up to you whether or not to sip a beverage as you follow along, Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN. You can find it on our NTC Live page. >

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Just click on the "Donate Now" button in the widget up there! We can add a little extra incentive as well: On Friday, February 20, one of our favorite NTEN members, John Merritt , will match our first $100 donation of the day. Behold: Tags: scholarships NPTech convio 09NTC. Wasn't that easy? Thanks John!

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

While we will be projecting coverage on the wall here at the NTEN office, those of you actually attending can help the rest of us share in the inaugural experience, social media-style. . Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Change.gov Widget. I had heard of these guys before, but finally signed up for a sample analysis of the NTEN community. Finally -- and this is not at all NPTech related, but you KNOW how I feel about bacon -- instead of a yule log this year, why not try a Bacon Log ? I'll admit, I couldn't answer a few of these.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Up on the NTEN blog! It's a widget! It's the announcement of NTEN's next Product Spotlight Webinar, "Be an Email Superhero without Superhuman Effort"! > Faster than a speeding FedEx truck! More powerful than a web ad! Able to leap. Well, no, but: you looked! It's a tweet! Register today.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 5, 2008

As we close out the year, we should probably all ask ourselves if those widgets, gizmos, and gadgets we work so hard on all year are actually working. What's your advice to NTEN members? All commenters will receive a fun prize pack from NTEN! One suggestion was: Are you sure your data is being backed up?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And even better, through his collaboration with Google, he's made his data visualization software available to everyone through GapMinder.com , and now through Google Spreadsheets Widgets. What are you waiting for?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Use free flash players like XSPF or Podcast Pickle's branded widget player to embed your latest or favorite episodes on your website. Tags: corey pudhorodsky NPTech NTEN Newsletter podcasting social media. Don't neglect to market your podcast through existing channels.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Based on some great feedback from our community, we've updated the way our voting widget displays your feedback on the 2012 NTC session proposals: Instead of showing the aggregate number of all the votes, it now shows the total of all "Up" and "Down" votes, giving you a better idea of how much overall activity a session is receiving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Some places to find this kind of information are TechSoup , NTEN , Idealware , Aspiration , and the New Organizing Institute. We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). net2 nptech Web 2.0 Mobilizing Generation 2.0 What a pain!" Cross-posted from NetSquared.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

When we talk tech, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle, or widget for fundraising. Network for Good processes donations for charities of all sizes, but because we focus our efforts on helping small- to medium-sized nonprofits with their fundraising, there is a strong representation of these nonprofits in our data.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2009

Rather than list off the top things you can do to raise money and spread your money right now, we decided to instead put our money where our mouth is - quite literally - and make a concerted effort to help the entire nptech community by raising money online for scholarships to none other than the 2009 NTC Conference in San Francisco.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Tags: NPTech data NTEN Newsletter kurt voelker.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. It's a server gone rogue. What happened? It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Tags: drupal foss jonathan hedstrom Newsletter NPTech NTEN Open Source. What do we want? Forums and blogs too! We want thumbs up and thumbs down, and images.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

AddThis, Facebook Activity Widget, etc.) While there was a ton of buzz about Facebook at the time, our particular implementation fell flat with visitors. Three years and much market research later, we now know that providing better integration for sharing tools (e.g.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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