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Nonprofit Tech Blogs in the Carnival

Submitted by Visitor on Mon, 07/17/2006 - 12:41pm

This weeks Nonprofit Consultants Blog Carnival is hosted by us here at NTEN with a focus on nonprofit technology as befitting our community of people using and deploying IT in the nonprofit sector. We received many a great entry and picked the best of the best for this week's Carnival. (If you want to learn more about Blog Carnivals, check here for more than you ever wanted to know!)

Jeff Brooks who runs a Donor Power, a blog focused on fundraising, writes about how nonprofits need to pay attention to their

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Report: Getting Started with Blogging Software

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 07/14/2006 - 1:09pm

I just got back from delivering a little ditty about the powers of blogging for nonprofits at a local event here in San Francisco hosted by the Community Technology Network of the Bay Area. It reminded me that I never posted about one of the greatest little gems to come along in a little while: Idealware's new report. Go get it if you're looking into starting a blog. "

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More Opinions on Congressional CAPCHA Puzzles

Submitted by Holly on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 2:21pm

A few weeks back, we did a free webinar on the new logic puzzles that some House members are starting to adopt on their email web forms. There's a lot fo back and forth on this issue on the N-TEN discuss list, as well as on this

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NPTech Blog Carnival: Your Blog Posts!

Submitted by Visitor on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 2:16pm

N-TEN community:

We are hosting this week the blog carnival for consultants started by Kivi Leroux at writing911.com, focused specifically on technology. We are looking for the 'best-of-the-week' submissions on all things tech in the nonprofit world and technology consulting. If you would like to be included in this weeks Carnival as a featured entry, please email me the URL blog post

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What does the nonprofit of the future look like?

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 11:39am

N-TEN member Paul Lamb is a Man on a Mission and is hosting a discussion over at the Skoll Foundation site:

Please join a discussion and participate in a citizen journalism project on "Nonprofits of the Future: NGOs of 2016". The idea is to paint a picture of what a technologically empowered nonprofit will look like a decade or so from now. The forum is being hosted by the Skoll Foundation's Social Edge. Check out http://www.socialedge.org

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Development Gateway Award: ICT and Youth

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 7:14am

A call for nominations for the Development Gateway Award. If you know an organization that focuses on ICT projects for the empowerment of youth, you can nominate it by August 11. The prize is $100,000 for the winning program.

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Net Neutrality Overview on NPR

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 6:03am

Last week, NPR aired a pretty decent overview of the Net Neutrality issue. The commentator is definitely on the side of Net Neutrality, but gives a pretty fair overview. I liked this piece particularly because it raises some of the social arguments surrounding the issue, not just the economics.

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Building your list is about retention

Submitted by Holly on Wed, 07/05/2006 - 5:42am

I've been pouring through conference agendas right now seeing what the tech community and the nonprofit sector are up to, in preparation for 2007 NTC planning. One of the things I see a lot of is an old refrain - sessions on how to build your lists. Having an opt-in audience is a mania that is second to none, if you go by the conference agendas I'm looking at.

What's interesting to me is that there

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The Chronicle on: Charities Urged to Monitor Congress Internet Debate

Submitted by Visitor on Mon, 07/03/2006 - 4:32am

N-TEN and the Innovation Funders Network, together with the Surdna Foundation and the funder affinity group GFEM, recently hosted a funder briefing with John Podesta, Ben Scott (Free Press), and Mike McCurry on Net Neutrality; laying out the main issues and helping funders understand the significance of the debate. The Chronicle of Philanthropy in its 6/30 issue features an overview of the call. The article is available to subscribers only - if you want to see the full copy, please contact us: Continue reading >

M&R Research: Do Images Help or Hurt?

Submitted by Visitor on Sun, 07/02/2006 - 3:54pm

M&R put out a useful analysis documenting whether images help or hirt in your email campaigns. Bottom line: Images do not boost response rates (not even those of charismatic mega fauna, such as cute polar bears) and in, in fact, hurt your delivery. The full article is here.

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