NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: August 16

Submitted by Annaliese on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 9:51am
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Flickr Photo: Caro WallisFlickr Photo: Caro Wallis(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.)

I didn't get a round-up posted last week, so I have an extra long one this week! Let's get started:

Thanks, Nancy Scwhartz, for taking the recent Russian spy saga and turning it into a nonprofit marketing lesson.

This article from Microsoft tries to tackle the IT "overhead" challenge nonprofits struggle. Hint: it's about organizational strategy, not operating costs, people! You can see the "Nonprofit IT Pyramid" suggested for planning here -- and I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn provides a partially-tongue-in-cheek reference for technology providers to consider before addressing a small nonprofit.

Maggie McGary shares this post and story about your social media efforts: your impact may be more than your re-tweets, likes, blog-comments, and video views suggest. (Tip: you may need a hanky to watch the video!)

Member organization Azavea announced a new look for their website, and made this video to help introduce it. Nice example!

Amy Sample Ward has a new article for the SSIR blog (re-posted on Amy's blog). Along with fellow NTEN members Debra Askanase and Bonnie Koenig, Amy discusses online community builing in a cross-platform social web.

Nice: givezooks! gets a nice write-up about a recent online fundraising campaign they helped implement for a nonprofit that found itself suddenly needing to replace a historic weathervane, but had no way to collect donations online.

Kerri Karvetski gave a nice heads-up about this great use of video to tell the story about a specific education project highlighted by Edutopia.org (The George Lucas Educational Foundation).

Aspiration announced the 2010 Nonprofit Software Development Summit (Nov 15-17). You should submit your session ideas!

Lisa Lane Kasperzak, from Beyond Nines, offers 5 Tips To Managing a Successful Technology Project for nonprofits.  

Yay! The 3rd annual WomenWhoTech summit was announced, and the panels are full of NTEN superstars. Please see the full list of panels and speakers for this great online summit.

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See the NTEN online community calendar for more upcoming nptech events from the community!