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New Study Finds Differences Between Reality and Perception of Nonprofit IT Staffing
January 29, 2007
A new study released this week finds a gap between nonprofits’ perceptions of being understaffed in IT and the reality of actual staffing levels. Organizations that feel they are in trouble when it comes to technology are overwhelmingly more likely to report being understaffed than organizations that feel ahead of the technology curve. Yet the struggling organizations reported slightly higher staffing levels. The most striking difference was not number of staff, but the length their employment, and the number of IT staff that had been at their jobs less than one year in particular.
The report is freely available at http://nten.org/research/it_staffing.
January 17, 2008
Data portability, privacy, and communication between software platforms are quickly emerging as key issues in the future of the internet. While big consumer companies like Google and Facebook are making headlines by engaging with these issues, nonprofit organizations have long relied heavily on data about their supporters. A new report and an evaluation tool aimed at propelling nonprofits into the future of data and software integration is now available from the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) in partnership with the nonprofit research firm Idealware.
“Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features” is a new guide to data portability. The guide is available at http://nten.org/research/talking and includes a comprehensive report and evaluation worksheet.
2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards at the NTC Announced
January 14, 2008
See3 Communications (www.see3.net) and NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network (www.nten.org) announce the co-sponsorship of the 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards. Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV (www.dogooder.tv), the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The grand prize winner will be announced at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans on March 21. The winner will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to the 2009 NTC to be held in San Francisco.
NP.IT: Information Week covers our event with Google
On Thursday, July 12, NTEN co-hosted an event with Google where the announcement was made that Google is extending its Google Apps Education Edition to nonprofits. Read the full article, then read more about the event.
TXT 2 VOTE: NTEN on the Swamp
Katrin Verclas, NTEN's executive director, spoke with the Tribune media group's "The Swamp" about mobile campaigning. Read the article.
NTEN is Educational Partner at the 2007 Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference, July 8-10, 2007, at the Hilton Washington in Washington, D.C., June 28, 2007.
More than 1,000 nonprofit fund raisers and direct marketing professionals will discuss the most effective and innovative ways to reach donors, including best practices in online fundraising. NTEN is the educational sponsor at the conference, featuring a track of sessions on online fundraising and technology in development. Read the joint press release.
Technology for Good: NTEN on ABC
NTEN's very own Executive Director, Katrin Verclas, filmed a short spot with ABC a few weeks ago addressing how nonprofits are making use of some cool technologies to further their missions. Watch the video.
Wiffiti Gives Nonprofits Ability to ‘Text out Loud,’ eNews Channels
April 4, 2007
LocaModa Inc., a pioneer of interactive out-of-home social media, today announced that Wiffiti, their proprietary text messaging platform, will be a part of the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, DC on April 4-6, 2007. The conference, focusing on Reinventing Politics: Creating Social Change From the Ground Up, will bring together over 1000 representatives from the nonprofit sector. Read article.
Also featured on EarthTimes.org.
Groups offer ringtones with a statement, USA Today
February 27, 2007
Environmental activists, among others, are using their cell phones for education and inspiration - via ringtones. And there's still a lot of room for experimentation in using cell phones for advocacy, says Katrin Verclas, executive director of NTEN and coordinator of MobileActive.og. Read the article.
Also featured on MSNBC.com and in the Jackson News Tribune.
The Journal Report: Technology, The Wall Street Journal Online
November 27, 2006
The NTEN community gave their list of recommended readings - resources, websites, books, and online tools - to The Wall Street Journal Online to spread the word and ways to leverage technology for social change. Read the article (PDF).
Make Privacy a Public Matter, Fundraising Success Advisor
September 26, 2006
Katrin Verclas, NTEN's executive director, talks about how integral collecting people's personal information is to the world of fundraising, and how with that information comes the responsibility to protect it. Read the article.
Women in Mobile 15 - Katrin Verclas, m-trends.org
July 27, 2006
In this edition of his series, Rudy De Waele interviews NTEN executive director Katrin Verclas about her work, passion for mobile technology, and her views on how mobile phones will impact the future and help make the world a better, more just, and more equitable place. Read the article.
Where it's @, Fundraising Success Magazine
July 1, 2006
Fundraising Success interviewed NTEN executive director Katrin Verclas on her views about online fundraising and what nonprofits should be doing to improve their e-philanthropy strategy. Read the article.
