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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: August 16
Flickr Photo: Caro Wallis(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) I didn't get a round-up posted last week, so I have an extra long one this week! Let's get started: Thanks, Nancy Scwhartz, for taking the recent Russian spy saga and turning it into a nonprofit marketing lesson. This article from Microsoft tries to tackle the IT "overhead" challenge nonprofits ...
Steven Slater & JetBlue Make a Great Case for Open Leadership
Flickr: mi..chaelIf you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater. Slater is the (previously employed) JetBlue flight attendant who, upon allegedly being assaulted by a passenger, effectively quit his job with a tirade of expletives over the PA system before grabbing a beer and making a grand exit out the emergency chute (luggage in hand) at JFK airport. Slater was promptly arrested and the media blitz began. For many organizations and individuals, this would have been a disastrous situation. In the age of Charlene Li's Open Leadership, however, it ...
Net Neutrality Update: The Google/Verizon Proposal
When last we tuned in to the soap opera that IS the net neutrality debate, the fate of our Internet had been left in the hands of FCC Chairman Genachowski, who had architected a process he hoped would lead to some action. Things weren't moving quickly, but they were moving, and down a definable path. (Thanks to the nearly 500 NTEN community members who signed the nonprofit petition!) On August 4, the New York Times broke the bombshell that Verizon and Google were meeting about net neutrality to broker their own proposal. Then, on August 9, Google and Verizon took a left turn, and ...
NTEN Member Case Study: Rebranding the Accidental Techie
Flickr: kool_skatkatLast month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: "Rebranding the Accidental Techie." In it, she admits that she loves the term "accidental techie" but that if we want to empower more nonprofit professionals to be the "tech leaders" that NTEN and others believe will help their organizations carry out their missions more effectively, then perhaps we need to ban the "accidental" label and embrace the "leader" label. I posed a question to our NTEN Members' LinkedIn Group about ...
Social Networks in Small Places
In just a few weeks, I'm heading to Colorado to chat with a group of nonprofits about using social media in their work -- but not in Denver. I'm going to Western Colorado, where everything is smaller. In chatting with my hosts at the Colorado Nonprofit Association, they made it clear that the nonprofits I would be talking with work on a different scale, and I would need to address how nonprofits that work in small towns and rural spaces can use social media.Jen Newmeyer, Food Bank of Central and Eastern North CarolinaI had a few assumptions I decided to test by talking to some organizations ...
