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Next Tuesday, I’m running a webinar with NTEN discussing “More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals.&# As always, I hope it’s a fun and informative session, but it’ll also have space for sharing and lots of questions. Or login to your NTEN account.).
Photo by JD Lasica. Holly Ross is the dynamic leader of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), the membership organization that supports nonprofit technology professionals. She’s raising money for NTEN , so if you want to celebrate Holly’s birthday, let’s make her birthday wish come true!
Teaser: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. After a lot strategic planning, much hard work (and not a little luck), we've managed to grow our membership, help more nonprofits learn nonprofit technology skills through our programs, and connect the NTEN community more than ever before. Let's find out!
NTEN staff in the Portland office headed to the Peculiarium yesterday afternoon for our holiday party. Lindsay will be staying with NTEN through the 2014 NTC so you don''t have to say goodbye to her yet. You''ll have to excuse the washed out photo; we didn''t think to check it and take one with flash. Here''s to all of you!
Flickr photo: niallkennedy. 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. After a lot strategic planning, much hard work (and not a little luck), we've managed to grow our membership, help more nonprofits learn nonprofit technology skills through our programs, and connect the NTEN community more than ever before. Also cat videos.
Here at NTEN, we were shocked and saddened to hear the news that last week our colleague, Michael DeLong, passed away very suddenly. Michael was an active member of the NTEN community, NTC speaker, colleague, friend, and an all-around great person to know. This photo comes from that event.". Photo credit: Krista Caldwell.
Photo by Trav Williams. Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Kudos to NTEN for breaking the template on the typical type of events it has hosted.
We''re so excited to welcome our new Content Manager, Steph Routh to the NTEN team! You may have also met her at the 14NTC, where she was working with the NTEN team behind the scenes. see photo below). How did you first become involved with the NTEN Community? Another thing I hope to bring to NTEN is adaptability.
flickr photo: woodleywonderworks November is member appreciation month, and we set today aside specifically to thank our amazing NTEN members, and to help them celebrate each other. If you're on Twitter, just thank your favorite NTEN member(s) and include #ntenthanks in your update. NTEN is so much more than a community now.
Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. NTEN Programs are growing and so is the Program Team to support it. So, I'm thrilled to announce a job opening for NTEN’s Educational Program Manager.
It's time to get your geek on, NTEN community! You could win a $2,500 grant from GOOD and a free NTEN Membership! Tell us how you would use your unique skills and ideas to sync up your community, and you could win a $2,500 grant from GOOD and a free NTEN Membership; there will be two additional prizes of free NTEN Memberships.
This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. That may mean it is a quick text-based response, a photo, a very short video, or a good sized video, respectively. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. That’s a much better tone to set.
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Photo credit: ToastyKen ). These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. If you have a topic or question you’d like to explore in an upcoming chat, feel free to let me know anytime!
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Create an NTEN Auction Item In each of the last two years, with generous matching support from Convio , we've raised $20,000 to send over 100 people from small nonprofits to the NTC for the best learning and networking opportunity of their careers! All we need to know is what you want to contribute, so please: Create an NTEN Auction Item.
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Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. Why the dog photo? Well, that’s my dog and he’s pretty cute, but Beth and Katie are also running a dog vs cat photo contest. Here’s a case study of my own! To Link or Not to Link.
Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN , mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who “like&# their page may post on their page, or on their own walls.
As the Membership Director at NTEN , and as a speaker at this year’s SXSW Interactive , I hope to be able to connect with all of you that may be coming to Austin for the festival or based in the Austin area. I’ll be joined by NTEN’s Community Manager, Sarah Janczak, too. Connect with NTEN.
Flickr photo: andercismo The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. Number of fundraisers (including NTEN): 21. Average gift: $65.23.
" Care2 Impact Prize | NTEN – A group of inspiring, talented people! Any member of the NTEN community is welcome to vote, but only one vote per person, per IP address will be counted." The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."
Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! Congratulations to NTEN Members named as Laureates in the 23rd Annual Computerworld Honors Program , including Inveneo and Microsoft ! Have more news to share?
photo: Robert Weiner Today, I am excited to announce that the application for scholarships to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is officially open. One of our core beliefs here at NTEN is that we are only as strong as our community. The icing on the cake is that it's you, the NTEN community, who support each other so well!
On April 16, the NTEN team in Portland spent the afternoon volunteering at Schoolhouse Supplies , in belated honor of National Volunteer Week. Of course, it wouldn’t be any fun at NTEN if we couldn’t dish on some data. We put this photo of Megan doing a hand stand post-volunteering because… it’s so Megan! check it out: [link].
NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. Photo: Paul Linton. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. .
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Here’s how: On the NTEN Blog We’ll be streamlining coverage of 2012 NTC on the NTEN blog. On Facebook Like NTEN on Facebook , then join the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference event to make sure you catch all the updates coming out of the conference. We’ll post conference news, photos, and more throughout the week.
The photo above is of Rob Stuart in 1997 at a meeting in Montana to create a plan at what eventually became NTEN – thoughtfully documented in photos by Gavin Clabaugh and included in the nptech history wiki. I got hear the legends in the nptech sector in the early days talk about their work and was inspired.
Rather than sharing photos of o ur food on Facebook , we’ll share our gratitude for this year and in anticipation of #GivingTuesday how to give back. 3 at 9 am on my LinkedIn Influencer blog for a chat with NTEN CEO Amy Sample Ward where we will discuss collective philanthropy and why you should donate to the NTEN Challenge.
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Congratulations to NTEN Member the Humane Society of the United States for reaching 1,000,000 Fans on Facebook! That is quite an accomplishment – and since it's Member Appreciation Month here at NTEN, I'd like to let them know how much we admire the examples they've set in social media outreach.
And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.
I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results. The question reminded of a screencast I created back in 2007 for NTEN and Salesforce Foundation that covered Google Adwords campaigns).
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Here are the latest highlights from your fellow NTEN Members making news: Well, Ello there! NTEN Members save 25% with the promo code: NTEN-Members. Kivi Leroux Miller has teamed with BC/DC Ideas to create a photo a day challenge for Instagram and Twitter to help nonprofits share their mission through daily photo prompts.
Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw. What do you think?
Each week during November we'll kick things off by featuring different NTEN staff members sharing about how we use technology to meet our mission here at NTEN. We'll feature the photos and videos on our blog throughout the month.
NTEN Members never fail to inspire us. There''s a terrific schedule of sessions and an all-star lineup of speakers (including NTEN Members, Steve McDonell of ACHIEVA and Beth Kanter ) planned for the Bayer Center for Nonprofits '' upcoming Tech Now Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Two words: photo booth. 500 list this year!
We are, of course, sad that it means the NTEN office hasn’t moved to Chicago to be with her. In her time at NTEN, Julia shared many lessons that we will continue to learn from and laugh about for years to come. She will continue to be an active NTEN Member, so it’s not goodbye! Have any special “Julia” moments? And herding cats?
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