NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Whew, what an NTC! We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. All of you - the community - are the special sauce that makes the NTC the amazing event it is. NTC in Numbers. It just wouldn''t be a post-NTC update if we didn''t share some of the highlights in numbers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2011

With over 2,000 attendees NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) was buzzing with lots of exhibitions displaying technology on offer as well as workshops and side events (which even included free massages provided by PICnet ).

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2008

Finally back from New Orleans and the NTC and Penguin Day. This was my 8th NTC and I had a fantastic time and learned a lot! I will be posting all my write ups, photos, videos, utterz, and reflections over the next week. So, stay tuned.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

I spent the last four months preparing for Drupal Day , a Drupal-centric, day-long workshop that ThinkShout coordinates as part of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). community Community drupal NTC Open Source Open Source thinkshout Web Sites website IT Staff' Here are my key takeaways for those looking to dive into Drupal.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

Whew, what an NTC! We''ve been reading, reflecting, getting inspired, and learning a lot from all of you. All of you - the community - are the special sauce that makes the NTC the amazing event it is. NTC in Numbers. It just wouldn''t be a post-NTC update if we didn''t share some of the highlights in numbers!

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by edtemeles As Holly notes, it would be silly to try to sum up the NTC in one blog post , so I'll give you something digestable. As the Program Coordinator at NTEN -- the one trying to wrestle everyone and everything together to bring you the NTC -- it's fitting that I evaluate the program side. We Are Media.

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2011

The 11th NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference), a three-day gathering in Washington, DC starts today. Every year NTC brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and discuss nonprofit technology, strategy, leadership, and communications.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

While our complete evaluation is quite long, we’ve summarized reflections and commitments for 2022 from every area of our commitments in practice. We hired two new staff in 2021 and engaged the new staff and their managers in reflection about the onboarding and hiring process. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2021 review highlights.

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2013

Last week, at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Minneapolis , Forum One attendees were busy making the most of the annual nationwide meet up of technologists and non-profiteers. Our conference presentations included data strategy, mobile strategy, Drupal upgrades, and Drupal Administration.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2011

The NTC is packed with opportunities for rubbing elbows with your best friend in the nonprofit technology space, and for making five new best friends at the same time! Here's a run down of some of the best ways to get connected in person this year: NTC Orientation - RSVP in myNTC! Member Reception - RSVP in myNTC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2007

David Weinberger , despite being really sick with the flu, gave an inspiring keynote at the NTC Conference on Thursday morning. Sonny Cloward has an excellent summary and reflection over at the NTEN Blog and looks like we're also puzzling over the same issue: I???m Click To Play.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

14ntc Community NTC press' , VisionLink Nonprofit Technology Conference: NTC14 — The Best and Biggest Ever!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day. View more presentations from burowe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2014

Michael was an active member of the NTEN community, NTC speaker, colleague, friend, and an all-around great person to know. I only met him in person twice, both times at NTC, and wish I''d had the opportunity to know him better. He was an understated quiet man with a keen intellect and fine sense of humor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

Geoff Livingston had a great suggestion of using the Google Reader closing for a moment of self-reflection and to pivot and purge what you’re reading. I’m doing a session on that with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith at NTC, so expect more that topic as well. ” moment. If so what are they?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Why would you reflect on how you feed people when you could just go feed people? At the NTC, she'll share her experiences at her session, "Evaluating Outcomes: Real Techniques for Measuring Civic Engagement and Technology Fluency " She spoke to me about it: Tags: Evaluation NPTech programs NTEN 09NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. And then reflecting at the end of the day for 5 minutes about what you accomplished. challenge for the NTC Conference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

What I like best about the book is that the narrative is accompanying by terrific reflection questions and worksheets so you can easily adapt all the wisdom shared in the book. It is also packed with resource lists and stories. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? The report out was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time.

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NTEN

APRIL 19, 2013

I think the 2013 NTC proved we need a creed of equal match for this community. This community came together at the NTC to have a conversation with Dan and Beth, and to help co-create the content of, and resources from, every session on the agenda. Thank you to this community for helping us make a terrific NTC!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Migration: a way to reschedule tasks following reflection and a reassessment of them. Among them: Have a place to plan, reflect and think offline. Custom collections: BuJo is designed to become whatever you need it to be, be it a fitness tracker, food log, diary, sketchbook etc. Reduce over-planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

that better reflects the multidirectional relationships across the organization, including both program and support relationships. Do you want to volunteer at the NTC and help us coordinate the largest nonprofit technology gathering? NTEN Research Update We''ve got a committee for Membership, the NTEN: Change journal, and the NTC.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. Roger Burks, Mercy Corps. You have to play in their space.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Our workplaces should reflect the values we're working for -- because it's the right thing to do. You remember the flap over the iPad , right? Most women certainly do. It's a clear reminder that technology is a man's world. Of course, it shouldn't be, especially in the nonprofit sector. It's also the sensible thing to do.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Stephen is a NetSquared ambassador from Wellington, New Zealand and attended the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in March. Reflecting on climate change and #nptech. Attending NTC in person, in Washington DC. This is a cross-posted with permission from NetSquared ambassador Stephen Blyth's blog, Common Knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. PRIORITIES. Are there competing priorities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I find inspiration from reading about new techniques, observing them in action by masters, writing about it, trying it, and reflecting on it. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design. Tips Training Design'

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Our members embrace one another, sometimes literally (I have heard stories of weddings that began with registering for the NTC!) and get started on the NTC and other events in the pipeline. So, as the manager of the conferences and events here at NTEN, I am driven to produce the best NTC ever. I must say, I love the love.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup." There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? " Its not that there is a lack of technology vendors and support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Try tweaking the strategy for several months in a row by building in reflection time.

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