Coming Out of the Closet by David Krumlauf of the Pierce Family Foundation | Community TechknowledgeDavid Krumlauf, the CTO of a foundation based in Chicago, talks about his ongoing experience of providing hands-on tech support to grantees. 
Top-performing companies have a high Digital IQ, the key behaviors that allow them to exploit technology and weave it into their businesses. What is yours? 
If you've ever implemented a technology project at a nonprofit, you know it's true: technology is 90% psychology. Success rarely hinges on the hardware and the software; technology hinges on the humans involved. These days, technology has forced its way into every single aspect of our organizations. While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations. 
At the end of the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a nine-page "Nonprofit Tech Checklist" which I have copied and pasted below. Each item on the list is discussed in t... 
The following article is an excerpt from our new ebook, How to Use LinkedIn for Business . Awesome recorded series of webcast videos all about cloud computing and nonprofits. must watch. 
Gaining value from IT starts with the CEO and is only successful as an organization mobilizes its resources around a shared strategy and executes. Content Strategy is a term that is popping up more and more often in the business world. 
It's important for any brand to learn how to manage negative comments and motivate its base of brand advocates. 
There are quite a few motivators for content creation in business. Marketers' goals for creating content can include brand awareness, lead generation, thought leadership, and search engine optimization. |
Social Media needs to be a part of your nonprofit technology, however you don't need to be everywhere on social media, you need to choose. 
Business managers may lack the tech knowledge to make sure a project is on the right track. These slides were used in a February 22nd, 2012, webinar for Nonprofit Webinars by Amy Sample Ward. 
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Some good advice for small org. 
John Haydon put together the top 5 Google Analytics reports that can help you learn more about your website's performance so you can improve it. Great video on a possible starting point for technology planning. 
Great concept to help think though where to begin to improve the technology at your nonprofit.
Even though this was written to describe a session the content is still awesome! 
Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. 
Scott Lowe talks about some of the new tech challenges his small IT department is facing and how they’re handling them. |
