I am on their email list only.

I find them very useful for fundraising and eCommunications issues, reviews of 
products and I have sat in on some webinars that were pretty useful.

However, ditto to Ari's comments - they are not museum specific, so you won't 
get any help in that particular area.  However, they are useful if you want to 
keep up with what's going on in more general non-profit IT issues - especially 
the eCommunications, CMS, etc.


Jeanne Kessler
IT Project Manager
The National?WWII Museum
945 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504/527-6012, ext. 228
Cell: 504/723-0765
Fax: 504/527-6088
Jeanne.Kessler at nationalww2museum.org 


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ari 
Davidow
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] NTEN - Non-Profit Technology Network?

I find NTEN good for networking about general day-to-day small
non-profit IT questions, but not at all relevant to museum- or
archive-specific issues. There seem to be fewer really experienced,
knowledgeable IT folks in the organization than in MCN. NTEN seems to
attract more ideologues, as well. More questions than I'd like are
answered not to the point, but with a "what you really should be doing
is...." This is especially true with regard to commercial vs. open
source technology. I don't always want religion when I am asking
technical questions, even when i share the dominant religion ;-).

I'm on both lists, but find myself participating more on this one (and
never enough on either--I have this full-time job thing....)

ari

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:44 PM, John Bedard <jbedard at artsmia.org> wrote:
> Does anybody have experience with NTEN, Non-Profit Technology Network?  If 
> so, is there anything it offers that MCN does not? Or any recommendations 
> about joining or not joining?
>
>
>
> John R. Bedard
> Director of Information Projects and Services
> The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
> 2400 Third Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55404
> Phone: 612-870-3268
> Fax: 612-870-3004
> Email: JBedard at artsmia.org
> www.artsmia.org
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