News from the NTEN Connect Blog

13NTC Sketchnotes: Placing Small Bets (Friday Plenary)

Submitted by Rob Cottingham on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 11:24am

Face-plants can be good for the soul... and even better for your non-profit's mission.

The 2013 "NTEN" Award: Maddie Grant

Submitted by Annaliese on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 10:06am

 

NTEN isn't an organization, we're a community – a community with a shared set of values, including authenticity, sharing, and of course, laughter.

Each year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, we get the chance to celebrate one individual – of the many! – who embodies those values and enhances the NTEN community. These individuals, recipients of the annual NTEN Award, are the people working hard to move NTEN's mission forward from within the community: always ready to share a case study, idea, or contact. They support the community by writing articles and presenting sessions and webinars. Oh, and they make us laugh, too. In short, they embody NTEN's Values.

The 2013 NTEN Award Winner:

 

The 2013 Rob Stuart Memorial Award: Invisible People, Mark Horvath

Submitted by Annaliese on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 9:30am

The Rob Stuart Memorial Award honors the spirit of the man who was so pivotal in creating our community. Rob was a builder - of communities, of ideas, and of movements. Central to all of this work was the idea that technology can accelerate the pace of change, making it possible for movements to grow overnight and for change to be created in new and suprising ways. 

Each year, we celebrate Rob by selecting a community that uses technology to disrupt the status quo.

The 2013 Award Winner:

2013 NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Lauren-Glenn Davitian

Submitted by Annaliese on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 9:18am

 

The NTEN community is filled with amazing individuals who change the world every day. Each year, we honor an individual who has been instrumental in shaping the field of nonprofit technology, and paved the way for the rest of us. Past winners have had a hand in creating and funding the biggest organizations in our space, built nonprofit technology communities large and small, and are exploring and sharing some of the most interesting and innovative technology models.

The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner:

13NTC Sketchnotes: Secrets of the Content Marketing Sorcerers

Submitted by Rob Cottingham on Fri, 04/12/2013 - 11:24pm

Fine-tuning content for your different audiences, making editorial calendars... and topping your broccoli with cheese.

Mobile Technology and Events: Keys For a Successful Mobile App

Submitted on Fri, 4/12/2013 - 7:00am
Mobile event apps are just one type of mobile application gaining huge popularity. That's because event details are accessible on the move through these apps and not reliant on a WiFi connection.

Responsive Mapping Techniques And Mobile Geolocation

Submitted on Thu, 4/11/2013 - 7:00am
Content delivery in the future will happen less and less through a traditional web browser and you need to prepare now.

A Survey from the Communities of Impact: Data Practices in the Nonprofit Sector

Submitted by Julia Smith on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 6:11am

The NTEN Communities of Impact participants are conducting a survey about how nonprofits use data. Learn more here, or if you can spare a few minutes, go straight to bit.ly/COIsurvey. Thank you!

At the 13NTC: Announcing the NTENnies

Submitted by Annaliese on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 6:10am

While we’re grateful to all members of NTEN, there are, of course, those of you who go beyond the proverbial "call of duty" and impact the NTEN community by providing extra time, resources, and wisdom to assist NTEN's work in this sector. We call you "rockstars" here on this blog (a lot), but each spring, at NTEN's annual conference, we like to do more than that. We like to annoint a new crop of these nonprofit tech warriors with their very own set of aNTENnae, signifying their special contributions to this special community.

Today, at the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, we unveiled the #13ntc NTENnies and their unique contributions to the NTEN community:

Most likely to . . .

Case Study from Breastcancer.org: Choosing between responsive web design and a separate mobile site to improve mobile visitors’ experience

Submitted on Tue, 4/9/2013 - 6:35am
The world is going mobile, and visitors to nonprofit websites are no exception. We knew by looking at the growth curve of website traffic that Breastcancer.org needed a mobile-optimized website.