By visualizing their data, nonprofits are driving donations, increasing engagement with their issues, and creating better-informed communities.
This three-part series will walk you through understanding the strategy about what data to visualize, how to visualize it, and putting those visualizations to good use internally and externally.
Thanks to the generous support of Google, we’re able to offer you this awesome series for free!
What nonprofit technology issues does your organization most need help with? How helpful are NTEN's resources to your work? How does your organization incorporate technology into its work?
It's an open secret that George Lucas based much of Star Wars on Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. By using archetypes, Lucas tapped into something elemental in human psychology and created a cultural phenomenon.
So, why don't we try the same thing? At our upcoming webinar, "Using Brand Archetypes to Find Your Voice in Social Media", we'll help you match your organizational voice to one of the 12 major brand archetypes. By focusing your voice, you'll strengthen your brand and better engage your supporters.
When it comes to technology, it's often assumed that smaller organizations just don't have the resources to use the tools and services that larger nonprofits do. Fancy databases? Too expensive. Up-to-date computers on a working network? Not enough tech savvy staff to keep it going. While there are exceptions to the rule – and cloud services are helping make more of those exceptions – it's generally the case.
We see it year after year in our IT Staffing Survey – unless, as it turns out, you are talking about social media.
By John Hoffman, Director of New Markets, ZeroDivide
Since the moment that President Obama stated that he supports same-sex marriage, there’s been a flurry of social media activity, both pro and con, on the issue. It’s obvious by now that social media has played a huge role in shaping Americans’ attitudes toward LGBT issues. But I would go a step further. Despite the unavoidable struggles and setbacks that lay ahead, the inherent qualities of social media make the passage of same-sex marriage and equal rights for LGBT individuals and families inevitable. Here’s why:
Flickr:MarkusramWe can feel it - the season is changing! How do we know? NTEN members are providing more educational opportunities, asking for more help on amazing projects, and announcing even more technology tools than ever before. With all the change going on, make sure you learn about all the ways NTEN members are making a difference in the world.
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Would you trust a volunteer to help maintain your organization's servers? Okay, probably not, but what about taking out an iPad to collect constituent data? Or setting up wi-fi hot spots after a disaster.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of many a nonprofit, and there are many ways you can engage them in technical roles – but it requires a special skill set to manage them. We'll explore the pros and cons of a volunteer workforce supporting technology at our upcoming webinar, "Engaging Volunteers in Technical Roles".
Our friends over at Blackbaud, in association with Constant Contact, have been running a great series on email marketing, Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together. There are still two live events left (and they're free):
Seats are going fast, so be sure to head over and check them out.
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We've already established the successes and failures of the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, but what about the straightforward facts? In the interest of maintaining transparency (and fueling our nerd fire), we thought we would give everyone more of what we all love: data!
In today’s digital world, the question is no longer “What is the cloud?”, but “How do I choose cloud tools that will help us do our work more efficiently?”
Our latest Nonprofits & Cloud Computing webinar series tackles the issue of how to choose and leverage cloud tools for a variety of different uses in your organization: fundraising, communications, programs, and operations.
By John Hoffman, Director of New Markets, 
