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2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference Notes Guide

This is a collaborative note taking effort open to all attendees of the Nonprofit Technology Conference. If you’re taking notes in sessions, please use the following document links to participate!

2013 notes tracker spreadsheet

(See last year’s results at12NTC Notes Guide and12NTC Notes Tracker)

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Communications

• Creating Habits for Social Good: Using Insights from Behavioral Science  to Increase Ongoing Engagement and Repeat Behavior

• Free Supporters! (No, Really!)

• Social Media Boundaries

• Social Media Police

Connect

• 5th Annual Marketing and Fundraising Meet and Greet

• An Introduction to NTC: First Timers Session

• Collaborative Problem Solving for Consultants

• Community Technology CoP: Building Bridges that Span the Digital Divide

• IT Directors CoP

• Mindful Engagement at Work and in Life

• Show, Tell, Hire!

Fundraising

• Getting Your Peer to Peer Fundraisers to Actually Fundraise

• We Heart Social Data: But What Do We Do With It?

IT Staff

• Cloud + Server: Yes, It Can Make Sense to Have Both

• NTC Drupal Day for Nonprofit IT Professionals

Leadership

• Building Movements: Beyond Emails, Campaigns, and Organizations

• Listen. Act. Learn. Repeat. How Feedback is Driving Social Impact

• Online Learning with Moodle:  Combining Communities and Open Source

Product Spotlight

• Empowering NGOs Worldwide with .NGO and Digital Services

• Office 365 - Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome

• Online Benchmarking:  What Worked in 2012

Program

• Designing a Mobile User Experience for Breast Cancer Survivors

• Thinking Like a Tech Startup: How to Meet Your Mission with Technology on a Shoestring Budget

• Building Movements — see listing under “Leadership” above

Friday, April 12, 2013

Big Ideas

Advocacy 4.0:  User Generated Campaigning is Changing the Game #13NTCchnge

General Session

• Opening Plenary: Dan Palotta-Uncharitable

Communications

• Fundraising, The Lost Decade.  The Rise of Boomers and Digital:  What Does it all Mean to You?

• 2013 eNonprofits Benchmarks

• Air Traffic Controlling: How to Guide Your Content from Ideation, to Creation, to Publication

• Campaigns as an Experience of Your Brand

• Connect the Dots:  Crafting the Arc of a Powerhouse Campaign

• Engagement Marketing: How Nonprofits Win In a Socially Connected World

• From Digital Divide to Digital Inclusion: Technology as an Equalizing Force

• More Knowledge, Less Expense: High Quality Audience Research on a Budget

• Secrets of Content Marketing Sorcerers

• Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Planner

• Time To Make a Video:  Here's How it's Done and How You Can do it Too

• What Public Radio Can Teach Nonprofits About Effective Storytelling

• What Users Want (or Why Webpages are Dead)

Connect

• Digital Storytelling Tools Meet Up

• Forums, and Comments, and Threads, Oh My!

• LGBT Advocacy in Social Media

• Salesforce Salon

• Steve Heye Standup Hour!

Fundraising

• Bridging the Technology Funding Gap

• Donor Intelligence: Letting Donors Drive Your Messaging

• Five Biggest Trends in Online Fundraising

• I Could Be Your Next Monthly Donor, So Call Me Maybe?

• Introduction to Integrated Fundraising

• Mobile Matters:  The Impact of Mobile Tech on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

• Mobile Mega-Session: 10 things We’ve Learned (And You Have to Know) about Smartphone Fundraising

• Multi Channel Mythbusters

• RFID Tags, Used Clothing, and Emails: How European Nonprofits are Using  them and What's Worth Testing in the U.S.

• Search for Success: Understanding the Basics of Online Paid Search and Display Ad Campaigns

• Social Media Fundraising: ROI and Metrics

• The Party's Over: How to Create Loyal Donors and Lasting Value from Big Events

IT Staff

• Effective Communication:  How to Translate Geek-Speak Into Normal Human

• Intro to User Centered Design: Why the Problem You See May Not Be the Problem to Solve

• IT Governance: Boring Name. Big Impact

• Microsoft Tech Updates for Non-Techies

• Project Management: Choosing the Right PM Tools and Approach for Disparate Projects

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: It's Here

Leadership

• Are We Really Making Change? A Changemaker's Guide to Measure What Matters Most

• Brave New World:  Incorporating Ethics and Values into Your Social Media Plan

• Fast Forward: How to Create Habits that Speed up Technology Adoption

• Is Success Just in the Numbers? How do We Capture the Qualitative Value to Our Organizations?

• Measuring Your Mission: Using Data to Track Organizational Health and Success

• Mindful or Mind Full Social Media:  Techniques to Focus in an Age of Distraction

• Need a New Website? Wait! Have you gone through a Discovery Process?

• The New Normal: Shifting Organizational Resources to Thrive and Survive

• You Need a Strategic Technology Plan!

Product Spotlight

• Apps for Cause Marketing and Social Media Amplification

• Data Driven Online Fundraising for Nonprofit Marketers

• Getting Year End Results 365 Days a Year

• How Can I Love You if You Don't Know My Name?  Best Practices for Building Relationships through CRM

• Where Did the Event Go in Peer to Peer Fundraising?

• Why You Need Predictive Analytics Now

Program

• Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology

• From Print to iPad: Keeping Content Current

• Got Ideas? Crowdsourcing for Innovation and Community Engagement

• How Many Rungs: Social Change and the Expanding Engagement Ladder

• Sun Tzu's Art of Herding Cats: Volunteer Management Edition

• Technology as the Circulatory System: Tackling Poverty Through Technology

• The Three Faces of the Digital Manager: Lover, Fighter, and Michael Jackson

• What is a YOLO? And How Can I Get One? Using Technology to Engage Youth

Saturday, April 13, 2013

General Session

• Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation

Communications

• Content Strategy:  Having One is Easy--But Are You Following It

• Ctl.Alt.Del.-- Rebooting Your Digital Community Building

• Draw Me a Story

• Get Your Motor Running: Revving up with Data Visualization

• How Can We Have a Brand Voice Without Good Internal Communication?

• Making Action Social Online: Facebook Frictionless Sharing, Open Graph, and Social Media Integrations for Advocacy

• Multichannel Mixer

• Not More than You Can Chew: Bite-Sized Tactics to Make Sense of Your Metrics

• Organizational Leadership with Social Media Insights

• The Real Housewives of Social Media

• The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload

• We Build a Community, They Come: Innovating Mature Communities

Connect

• A WordPress Users' Gathering

• Beyond Basic Content Management: An Introduction to Drupal Administration

• C is for Cookie: Convio Platform Townhall

• Community Organizers Connect

• Managing Technology from the Middle

• Social Media Birds of a Feather

Fundraising

• A Deep Dive Into Paid Acquisition ROI: Analysis and Case Studies

• A/B Testing: Can You Afford Not To?

• Data is from Mars, Nonprofits are from Venus

• Donor Engagement Insights:  Results of A Study

• Getting LinkedIn to Your Donors: Using LinkedIn to Leverage Your Donor's Network

• Level Up Your Fundraising: Understanding the Psychology of What Makes People Donate

• Six Simple Steps to Creating a Written Fundraising Plan

• The Mathematics of Fundraising: An Equation of the Heart

• Where Did That Gift Come From? Attributing Online Gifts in a Multi-Channel Campaign

IT Staff

• Attracting Great Developers

• Getting Started in the Nonprofit Cloud

• The 2013 CMS Report Card

• The Anatomy of Successful Data Migration

• Where is This All Going? The Future of IT

Leadership

• Access for All: Basics of Website Accesibility for Leaders

• Cloud Basics for Nonprofit Decision Makers

• From Empathy to Innovation: Design Thinking for Nonprofits

• Keys to Post-Implementation Tech Success

• Lean Strategic Planning for Agile Organizations

• Maturing Your Organization's Social Culture: Creating Effective Policies

• npTech FAIL: How to Crash and Burn and Turn it To a Win

• Strategic Leadership: What a Nonprofit Leader Really Needs to Know about IT

• Tech Support Confidential: insider Advice on Selecting the Right IT Support

• Why Organization Structure Matters for Online Success

Product Spotlight

• Digital Disruption in Nonprofit Events

• Does Social Media Make Cents?  An Expert Panel in Social Media Fundraising

• Understanding Email Audiences through Data

Program

• Data Sucks, Information Rocks: Using Data to Measure Performance and Outcomes

• Predictive Program Evaluation: Don't React, Predict

• Relational Campaigning: an Inside Look at Minnesotans United

• Service Beyond Geography: Using Technology to Serve People Remotely

• Supporter Engagement Strategy: Real World Stories from the Field

• Using Text Messaging to Achieve Your Mission: Creative Uses from Real Nonprofits