(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.)
Even on vacation, Beth Kanter manages help nonprofits become more tech-savvy! How does she do it? Why, by inviting guests to blog! Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging and geo-locating tools and their potential for nonprofit application, so we are thankful for this guest post on Beth's Blog about 10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World.
This post was written earlier this year, but it made the rounds on Twitter this week, so thanks, again, Small Act and Annie Lynsen, for writing up a helpful how-to about transitioning from a Facebook profile or group to a Facebook fan page.
Amy Sample Ward is great at aggregating news and notes about nonprofits using and learning to use social media on her blog. Her latest weekly round up of "great reads" is up, and NTEN member Idealware is included.
I think we'd all do ourselves and our audiences a favor if we read this article from Jake Brewer and The Sunlight Foundation: "Rethinking Advocacy Email." It's pretty provoking -- but at the same time, says what I think most of us email-campaigners have been thinking and asking ourselves for a while. Join fellow NTEN members Jon Stahl and Chris Tuttle in the comment discussion!
Azavea was named a finalist in the Winning Workplaces and Inc.'s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. Congratulations!
Speaking of kudos, Beyond Nines was given a nod in a recent FastCompany article about web hosting companies. Here's what the reviewer had to say about their specialized focus on serving nonprofits: "Beyond Nines gets my Point of Difference award for Hosting with a Heart, and snagging a sector that needs help because they dedicate their lives to helping others."
Don't forget: IdeaEncore is wrapping up its July "Share it Forward" share topic, but you still have time to share! Please share examples, templates, or links to other resources online regarding nonprofit employee policies regarding tech -- anything from hardware to social media!
We're really excited to announce the newest NTEN 501 Tech Club. Please welcome the Northern Colorado 501 Tech Club! (That's NoCo, for short!) Thanks to Joyce Raby for organizing the local nptech group for her community. Stay tuned to NTEN online community calendar for upcoming 501 Tech NoCo events, as well as other nonprofit tech community events.
Speaking of upcoming 501 Tech Clubs:
If you have an up-coming NTEN 501 Tech Club not listed here -- we need to get it on our calendars! Leave a link in the comments here, or add on the community calendar here:http://groups.nten.org/cal.htm