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2009 Member Appreciation: Daily Member Prize Winner for 11/17

Susan Neuman, of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

We're sending you Second Life for Dummies, by Sarah Robbins and Mark Bell, courtesy of Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishers.

Thank you for being a member of NTEN, Susan, and, considering your organization and cause, perhaps there are some new ways you can engage and educate the community about Historic Preservation -- and who knows, maybe someday Second Life will be among the communities and places your organization strives to preserve!

NTEN Member Round-Up: You're Doing NPTech Right!

(Note: I've changed up the format slightly to frame these round-ups around your success stories, your stories about working on "getting things right" on your job and with your organization with the help of technology. Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!)

NTEN in the iPhone App Business? Not Yet, But YOU Could Be!

In case you haven't heard, we're not just opening submissions for session ideas for the 2010 conference this week, we're also seeking an NTC iPhone application developed by someone in the community!

That's right, in addition to all the things you're used to -- like more amazing sessions than you can physically attend, enough networking opportunities to create those on-going partnerships and friendships, plus, you know, penguins -- we'd also like to feature an Official 2010 NTC iPhone App at the 2010 conference in Atlanta.

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Aug 28th, 2009

NTEN members generally rock, but every week we try to give props where props are due. This week in NTEN member news:

Free Nonprofit Tech Webinars and Resources for NTEN Members

Flickr: HowiePoonNTEN has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, in both membership and programming, and we have a few new free sessions you should take advantage of this month:

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: June 29th

From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing:

Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. Nonprofits can submit needs; video-savvy volunteers can connect with a cause.

Natural Resources Defense Council's Apollo Gonzales is interviewed by Eric Kuhn of the Huffington Post about NRDC's Social Media strategy. (BTW, NRDC was recently listed as a top Green Org to Follow on Twitter, so they must know what they're talking about ;)

Missoula Tech Club is on Facebook, thanks to the organizing of Jeanette Russell.

Speaking of Tech Club organizers, our Austin Tech Club rock star, David Neff, went homeless for 48 hours with the Austin Mobile Loaves and Fishes guide. The only tech he took with him was his flip camera to document.

Looks like members FreeCause and Charity Dynamics have teamed up to combine fundraising and web 2.0 solutions for nonprofit orgs.

As Brett mentioned earlier, Nancy Schwartz is ready to hear your nonprofit's tagline. Submit by July 31st to be considered for the 2nd Annual Nonprofit Tagline Awards!

And last, but not least, the Bayer Center for Nonprofits transformed their summer tech camp messaging into a song and shared it via video. Apparently their marketing manager didn't like it. What do y'all think?

Documenting the Digital Divide

Flickr: ThomasBrandtFrom the number of "out of office" replies I get anytime I send an email to the NTEN community, it looks like we're well into vacation season. If you're one of the lucky ones taking some vacation time to get out and about this summer, the folks at iwith.org have an assignment for you:

Take your camera and shoot some pics that demonstrate the digital divide.

It's the third season for this Barcelona and Switzerland-based organization's digital divide photo contest, and you're invited to participate. They'll be accepting submissions all summer -- through September 20th -- and they'll publish the selected photos on their site starting September 27th.

Read full contest details here, and you can see the 2008 photos here.

NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Sharing Resources With Each Other

Flickr: kool_skatkatIt's been a little while since I posted one of these members-online round-ups. Let's just say I've been saving up for a really good one.

There's been a lot of sharing of tips, examples, and resources among NTEN members in our online community lately, so I want to highlight those today.

There was a question on the DC 501 Tech Club and NTEN Discuss lists about Facebook vs Twitter. Here are some of the resources members shared to help tackle the question:

Nonprofit and Grassroots Film Festival: Submit and Win!

Flickr: EndlessstudioYou and your cause have been using video to capture and share stories about the work you do and the change you're making, right?

Now there's a venue for you to showcase your hard work and great results: a film festival designed just for nonprofits -- with the added opportunity to win cash monies for your cause!

Check out Lights. Camera. Help. This nonprofit film festival, the first of its kind, will take place at the end of July in Austin, Texas. You have until the end of this month to submit your work!

Here's some more information from the organizers:

2009 Bridge Conference: NTEN Members Special Rate!

If you've been following the fundraising and marketing trends over the last few years, you're probably hip to idea that the best strategies for maximizing engagement and fundraising for your organization involve integrating online and offline communications and campaign efforts.

Wouldn't it be great for all you fundraising and marketing professionals if there were a conference specifically for learning how to integrate that stuff? If experts from both the fundraising and marketing communities got together to present actual sessions and resources for maximizing campaign efforts, you'd probably want to be part of that, right?

You're in luck! The 2009 Bridge to Marketing and Fundraising Conference takes place July 21-23 in Washington, DC.