Upcoming NTEN Webinars

Product Spotlight: How to Implement an Online Community That Integrates with your Constituent Management Database

Anna — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:13:21 -0400

Start: 07/13/2009 - 11:00am

End: 07/13/2009 - 12:30pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

ThePort’s Social Media Solutions allow nonprofit organizations to implement online communities that drive new constituent participation, increase online fundraising and are integrated with your constituent management database - including Convio’s Constituent360.

Attend this webinar and join Common Knowledge, Convio and ThePort for a discussion of how to build, implement and launch an online community that is integrated with your constituent management database. The webinar will begin with a discussion of strategy and best practices for launching and managing an online community. Then, we’ll look at a real-world example of how Sierra Club launched an integrated community that features socially-enabled causes and actions that are integrated with Convio’s Constituent360. Finally, we’ll discuss technical considerations for launching an integrated community, including a discussion of Convio and ThePort’s APIs, single sign on, and how to host a community on your existing website.

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Presented by: ThePort Social Media Solutions, Common Knowledge, Convio

About Product Spotlight Webinars
Product Spotlight Webinars are presented by sponsors. In these sessions, you'll have the opportunity to learn about products and services, as well as some of the latest trends in the sector. Content in these sessions has been developed solely by the sponsor.

Making Media: Your Teleconference Could be the Next Internet Sensation

Sarah — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:43:27 -0400

Start: 07/15/2009 - 11:00am

End: 07/15/2009 - 12:30pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

Everywhere you turn, you'll find nonprofits using video and audio to build and engage their audiences online. While these shiny newfangled things seem like a great idea, most of us don't have the skills, the time, or the budget to produce them. Enter your tele- and web- conferencing service. You're already using these services for your live gatherings, but you can also use these services to create a wide variety of content with few technical skills, and only a little time. In this session, we'll talk about some of the ways you can extend your conferencing service to create all kinds of media to engage your stakeholders. You'll get new ideas and real examples you can implement tomorrow!

Presented by Shawn Cardinal, ReadyTalk and Holly Ross, NTEN

This event is FREE for everyone! Register Now!

Idealware Online Seminar: Editing a Website without Technical Skills

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:32:31 -0400

Start: 07/16/2009 - 1:00pm

End: 07/16/2009 - 2:30pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

If you need a way to update your website, but you're not sure where to start, this is the session for you. In this online seminar, we'll talk about what content management systems are, and look at various affordable options for updating your website text and images, including using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get software like DreamWeaver and Contribute, website-in-a-box tools like Homesite, blog tools like WordPress, open source tools like Joomla and Drupal, and more. Register at: http://tinyurl.com/luvqy7

2010 NTC Community Planning Call

Anna — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:11:14 -0400

Start: 07/16/2009 - 11:00am

End: 07/16/2009 - 12:00pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

Yes, it's time: Time to start talking about the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. And you know us, we love your 2 cents!

Actually, we think it's worth way more than that. Your insights are what make NTEN what it is -- a community of folks using technology for social good. Your insights are also what will make the 2010 NTC the BEST place of the year to connect, learn, and change the world through nonprofit technology.

We hope you'll join us for our first community call to talk about hopes and dreams for the 10NTC. (We admit that 10NTC doesn't have quite the ring that 09NTC does, but what are we to do? Maybe that's one of the things we can talk about on the call.)

> Sign up for the NTC Community Call!

This will be an open call/live chat with a loose framework to get your feedback into the different program areas of the NTC and to hear your fresh ideas for making the NTC better than ever.

Idealware Online Seminar: Choosing Broadcast Email Software

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:33:51 -0400

Start: 07/22/2009 - 1:00pm

End: 07/22/2009 - 2:30pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Mass emails - for eNewsletters, fundraising appeals, or action alerts - are a great way to reach out your audience, but it can be complex to send and track thousands of emails. We’ll walk through what you need to know and talk about some of the reliable and affordable (even free!) tools most useful for nonprofits. Register at: http://tinyurl.com/qcmpx7

Product Spotlight: Managing the Life-Cycle of Your Donors: Understanding Business Rules and Fundraising Automation

Sarah — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:53:50 -0400

Start: 07/29/2009 - 11:00am

Timezone: US/Pacific

Have you ever struggled with timely donor acknowledgement? Ever wished you could easily target cultivation to key donors in a consistent, systematic way? Processes at many organizations can be sporadically implemented and sometimes capricious having evolved organically over years.

These flawed processes leave the nonprofit highly vulnerable to sub-optimal constituent management because each organization's business rules for this mission-critical function -- the standard operating procedures and routines that have evolved into the group's best practices -- mostly exist in the institutional memories of individuals rather than in the infrastructure of the organization. In addition, the reliance on individuals to consistently remember and properly execute on key processes -- like timely acknowledgements with versioning by gift-level and donor type, new donor welcome series via mail and/email, or cultivation and upgrade appeals based upon a donor action like event attendance -- presents a serious risk that donors and other constituents will have inconsistent treatment, which results in current as well as potential income loss.

This Webinar will look at how implementing business rules in Orange Leap can automate your fundraising cycle and actually manage the donor life-cycle for you, leaving you free to focus on strategy, personal outreach and your mission

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Presented by: Leo D'Angelo, CTO Orange Leap; and Matt McCabe, Vice President of Community, Orange Leap.

Leo D’Angelo, CTO, Orange Leap

A technology visionary with a longstanding passion for open solutions, D'Angelo has more than two decades of broad ranging experience from founding successful high tech companies to developing innovative software and systems for some of the biggest names in Corporate America. At Orange Leap, D'Angelo heads software development, services and support functions.

D'Angelo established himself as a leading-edge technologist in the 1980s when he designed and implemented a groundbreaking, open technology infrastructure for Fidelity Investments next-generation equity trading floor. With financial backing from Fidelity, D'Angelo then launched a subsidiary company, Devonshire Technologies, to market similar solutions to the broader investment community.

Subsequently, as CTO of J2 Global Communications (NASDAQGS: JCOM), the world's largest online fax services company, Leo developed and managed the first service for sending and receiving faxes anywhere one can access email. As part of the management team, he helped lead J2 during a period of tremendous growth to more than 9 million customers and from $5 to more than $35 per share. Leo joined J2 after the company acquired the firm he founded, Timeshift, which created and marketed a communications platform for purchasing online communication services.

Most recently prior to Orange Leap, Leo was CTO of Dragon Media, which offers email, Web marketing and lead generation solutions for higher education and whose clients include University of Phoenix, the largest online university. Before Dragon Media, Leo served as Vice President of Product Development for Corprasoft, a top software vendor for Fortune 500 in-house legal departments. At Corprasoft, Leo worked with Aetna, Boeing, BMW North America, Goldman Sachs and Honeywell, and helped orchestrate the company's acquisition.

Matt McCabe, Vice President of Community, Orange Leap.

Matt is one of today’s leading nonprofit consultants, with nearly a decade and a half of experience helping charitable organizations around the world optimize their online marketing and fundraising, integrated marketing, business process and organizational strategy, direct mail, and media and print campaigns.

His clients have included a “who’s who” of nonprofits, among them, World Vision, The Children's Society (UK), Tearfund, The ONE Campaign, American Red Cross, UNCF-the United Negro College Fund, Jewish National Fund, National Wildlife Federation, National Association of Realtors and Habitat for Humanity.

At Orange Leap, Matt is in charge of cultivating a vibrant community to ensure that all users get the most value from the company’s open source software and can easily partner with one another on development as well as share applications and knowledge.

Prior to Orange Leap, Matt was a Principal Consultant for Convio, the online constituent relationship management (CRM) company. Before Convio, Matt was Director of New Media at London-based Premier Media Group, where he helped implement a CRM system across the company’s properties, including several radio stations, an online television channel and four print magazines.

A recognized industry expert, Matt is a frequent speaker at nonprofit conferences and also writes for nonprofit trade publications and Web sites. He is on the Board of Directors of Cambridge, Mass.-based The Pendulum Project, which empowers grassroots organizations that support children in AIDS-affected regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, Matt is a member of the Institute of Direct Marketing in London. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Wheaton College.

Social Media and Your Website

Anna — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:36:07 -0400

Start: 08/04/2009 - 11:00am

End: 08/04/2009 - 12:30pm

Timezone: US/Pacific

All too often social media is seen as something that happens 'out there,' somehow divorced from the rest of your online communication goals. In this session, we'll discuss strategy and tactics for better integration between your organization's website and your efforts on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other channels.

Takeaways:

1. A model for understanding of how social media and organization websites can work together
2. Examples of what some organizations are doing now
3. Some specific implementation ideas that you can try right away!

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Presented by: Jay Moonah, ‘Noisy Apricot’, Wild Apricot. Jay Moonah is VP of Marketing for Wild Apricot, web software for small and medium nonprofits to manage their website, member data, contact info, event registrations and donations with a single easy-to-use and cost-effective system.

Jay is responsible for marketing and communication efforts for the company, including community outreach through the Wild Apricot nonprofit technology blog as well as the social news/bookmarking site Association Jam.

Jay has more than 15 years experience in Internet development, marketing and training. Prior to joining the team at Wild Apricot, Jay worked on strategy and analysis at the digital marketing agency 58Ninety as well as at Sun Media, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

Outside of work, Jay is an active podcaster and musician. You can find his personal website at http://jaymoonah.com/