NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: First Week of October
(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.)
Michael Silberman of EchoDitto wants cause-technologists to open up and share more critique about what DOESN'T work with online campaigns and strategies, so that we can all learn from each other's mistakes. Online campaign workshop? Can you swallow your pride and take some critique? Read Michael's thoughts and example workshop campaign.
Social Fish put together a report on 6 community/social networking platforms geared toward associations and member communities. Higher Logic, NFi Studions, ThePort, and Socious were included in this in-depth conversation and look at online community platforms.
Peter Campbell is single-handedly trying revive RSS. With Twitter and FriendFeed and other new-fangled ways to keep up with news from friends, has RSS been cast off? Read Peter's excellent re-introduction to RSS for managing your online information.
Amy Sample Ward, Danielle Brigida, Robert McAllen, and Melanie Mathos joined host Chad Norman on the latest Baudcast, the nonprofit tech podcast series from Blackbaud. In this episode, the Baudcast panel discusses international fundraising and online giving.
Amergent was honored at the 2009 National Catholic Development Conference with two gold awards for marketing excellence in fundraising campaigns -- recognized for successfully combining data management with creativity to raise donations from supporters.
Avencia was honored again -- their 3rd major award this year! -- this time making it on the Philadelphia 100 list. Congratulations!
