Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. The people with skills are out there.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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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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JUNE 17, 2009

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. The Student Conservation Association : @the_sca. Follow Danielle @starfocus.

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MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. Here at NTEN, we're in an interesting position. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. Do they have a large scale PR effort?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And, as the NTEN Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology highlights, “…technology does not and cannot succeed without an organizational culture that supports it”. DBG Detroit empowers students to be positive and productive members of society through education, athletics, mentorship, and intervention. Take A Courageous Pause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. An easy way to do this is to pause or take a breath after ten minutes to answer questions or give participants something active to do rather than passively listen.

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JULY 22, 2021

Their backgrounds and experiences are equally diverse, from an Iraqi immigrant to a first-generation American, a student currently pursuing a degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and a polyglot who speaks three languages. The post Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows appeared first on NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some have fewer features, but all have some basic qualities: Ability to handle multiple courses (or activities) and enroll individual students Courses can be done either with specific deadlines, or at any pace Course calendars Messaging (between teacher and students and between students) Group discussions Document repositories Assignments and grading (..)

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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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M+R

MARCH 19, 2021

Our upcoming NTEN session and public Roundtable will demonstrate how to not only better reach your known audiences but find the hidden markets that may hold the key to your future fundraising success. ICYMI: Takeaways from our Roundtable on lifting the Pell ban for incarcerated students. Register here. Related Links.

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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). There is a great psychological benefit to this style of training because it helps eliminate notions of superiority and inferiority, and brings the teacher to the same level as the student. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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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

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

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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JULY 1, 2011

But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world. The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly!

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In order to ensure the work and concepts that emerged throughout the workshops had a launch pad, we created the Idea Accelerator as the final day’s focus, pushing those ideas into possibilities.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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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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MAY 20, 2011

Holly Ross, Executive Director at NTEN did a great post over at Mashable that highlighted five nonprofits who are innovating with mobile. “And it doesn’t take an expensive investment in a custom built application to make mobile work,&# said Ross. Check out the full article here.

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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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DECEMBER 17, 2014

A recent sexist Barbie book about girl coding encouraged a Georgia Tech student to personally rewrite it. Finally, we here at NTEN HQ hope that 2014 brings you joy to its last second of existence and that your socks remain dry. Google is encouraging girls to paint the White House Christmas tree lights with code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.)

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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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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