(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.)
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society launched a new campaign (with the help of NTEN rockstars at BigDuck) to raise awareness and support, and it's getting a lot of attention. Amy Sample Ward praises the campaign for what it's doing right, and offers some thoughts on how other organizations can learn from it and tweak it for their own causes.
Speaking of Amy Sample Ward, congratulations on your SSIR top post in 2009! Of course, we already knew you were a rockstar.
Idealware.org says they will be rolling out a new site soon. (We feel you on that one! How does our new site look, btw?) Congratulations! We love -- though we're not surprised to see -- that so many NTEN individuals and companies pitched in to help Laura Quinn get it done: props to Jeff Herron and Beaconfire, Sam Reynolds and Michael Weiss of Imagistic, David Guilhufe, Carl Diesing of DNL OmniMedia, and Peter Campbell.
M+R released their latest white paper on the effectiveness of buttons, specific dollar asks, landing pages, text vs images in emails, etc. It's getting some high praise in their ProgressiveExchange forum.
Beth Kanter (blogging from Mumbai!) addressed the question of whether (and how) CEOs and Executive Directors should be in the social media space. She gives examples -- Holly Ross is cited for her Twittering and Blogging, as well as The Case Foundation's Steve Case -- and provides some really helpful tips and considerations.
In NTEN Tech Club news: the NYC and the Long Island clubs are both having events next week (but at different times): Join the NYC crew for some Q&A with Ben Rattray of Change.org (details and RSVP here). Grab some lunchtime wisdom with the Long Island club to talk data, sweet sweet accounting data, and how you can use the tools at your fingertips today (like Excel) to better see, plan for, and afford your mission's progress (details and RSVP here).