Case Study of AJWS: Organizational Culture in the Cloud
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MAY 9, 2013
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What Does Mobile Mean for Your Organization?
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APRIL 8, 2013
Are all of the posts and articles about “going mobile” and having a mobile strategy making you manic? While we’ve all come to terms with the fact that we live in a mobile world, what does it really mean for small nonprofits and membership organizations?
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Nonprofit Innovation and the Cloud
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MAY 6, 2013
Change Management Cloud Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit cloud nonprofit innovation nptech Organizational Culture Staffing Strategy IT Staff' But, more specifically, what links might we find between the unique aspects of cloud technology, and the conditions and success factors for innovation?
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Strategic Leadership: What a Nonprofit Leader Really Needs to Know about IT
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DECEMBER 3, 2013
Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in these areas with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.
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Strategic Leadership: What a Nonprofit Leader Really Needs to Know about IT
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JUNE 5, 2013
Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in these areas with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.
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A Brief History of Nonprofit Technology Leadership, And a Call to Action for New Circuit Riders
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JUNE 3, 2013
Change Management Community future of CIO Leadership nonprofit technology nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Policy Staffing Strategy IT Staff' But the question stuck with me, and I have an idea that I want to share, appropriately, with the NTEN community.
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Effective Project Management: Three Critical Activities
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JUNE 6, 2013
I was accustomed to meeting weekly to discuss a project’s progress and resolve any issues and requested changes. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. Change Management Leadership nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture project management Strategy IT Staff'
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How Does Organization Structure Affect Online Success?
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JUNE 12, 2013
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Leading Through Failure
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JUNE 13, 2013
Change Management Community Leadership learning from failure nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Strategy technology failure stories' In the end, however, we all found that the failures were not of technology, but of leadership – and so were the lessons.
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Effective Project Management: Three Critical Activities
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DECEMBER 9, 2013
I was accustomed to meeting weekly to discuss a project’s progress and resolve any issues and requested changes. Project management seemed easy and straightforward. Change Management Leadership nonprofit management nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture project management Strategy IT Staff'
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70 Nonprofit Innovation and the Cloud
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DECEMBER 5, 2013
Change Management Cloud Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit cloud nonprofit innovation nptech Organizational Culture Staffing Strategy IT Staff' But, more specifically, what links might we find between the unique aspects of cloud technology, and the conditions and success factors for innovation?
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The Change Journal's 10th Issue is Out: It's a Mobile World
NTEN
JUNE 4, 2013
This issue of NTEN:Change provides statistics you should probably know about your supporters and constituents, strategies that might need to incorporate mobile technology considerations, tips, stories, and insights from nonprofit professionals and technology experts. Well, it means a lot of different things.
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13NTC Sketchnotes: Uncharitable
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APRIL 24, 2013
13ntc Change Management Community illustrated notes nptech Organizational Culture Policy Staffing Strategy' Dan Pallotta''s keynote certainly had folks talking – and for a sketchnoter, inspired plenty of visual imagery. Click the image or Check out the full version to expand the notes (PNG, 242.7
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62 6 Key Steps to Post-Implementation Tech Project Success
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DECEMBER 4, 2013
While most of us are familiar with the term user adoption, few of us have a flexibly toolkit of helpful strategies and ideas to turn the success of our technology project launch into a long-term success. Change Management implementation success Leadership Missy Longshore nptech nten Organizational Culture IT Staff'
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60 13NTC Sketchnotes: Mindful or Mind-full
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APRIL 13, 2013
13ntc Change Management Community nptech Organizational Culture session notes Strategy' Sketchnotes: Mindful or mind-full Since a big part of this session was on visual note-taking as a way of focusing attention, here are my notes (1.5
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This Just In: Computers Are Dead. It's a Mobile World (How Does Your Nonprofit React?)
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APRIL 22, 2013
How do you adjust your IT and communications strategies in this brave new world? Change Management community Infrastructure mobile Mobile nptech nten:change Organizational Culture Social Media strategy Strategy Web Sites Communications IT Staff Program' Everything must exist in the cloud.
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92 Case Study: Artist Trust Applies Lessons from the Nonprofit Technology Leadership Academy
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JUNE 7, 2013
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Case Study: Death With Dignity National Center Applies Lessons from the Nonprofit Technology Leadership Academy
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JUNE 4, 2013
Change Management Data Infrastructure Leadership nonprofit technology leadership nptech Organizational Culture Strategy tla Communications IT Staff' "We were fairly proactive in the content of our messaging but less so in the technologies to deliver them," said Sandeen.
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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology
NTEN
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Rebooting Your Digital Community Building
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APRIL 5, 2013
When an organization embraces the culture of creating and empowering all staff to become “brand ambassadors,” authentic and exponential growth starts to happen. When organizations embrace this holistic culture, the nonprofit begins to come alive online. This isn’t a new concept. Follow Lori on Facebook or on Twitter @Ljacobwith.
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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. Data member news Member Round Up nptech' Register now!
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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. Data member news Member Round Up nptech' Register now!
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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making
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JANUARY 28, 2013
With this workbook, we hope to provide nonprofit leaders with a set of worksheets that will help guide thinking and planning around more effective data strategies. It will be helpful to include input and discussion from various staff when using this workbook, however.
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100 A Leadership Manifesto: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
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JUNE 11, 2010
Instead, we're going to spend our time in program planning meetings and strategy talks, figuring out how to leverage technology to make the work our organizations are doing become that much more effective. Tech leaders need to lead this culture shift in their organizations. Invest in technology instead of spending.
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To Infinity and Beyond: Transitioning to the Cloud
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Like all technology projects, there are considerations around strategy, tactics, technology – and people. We will share the best of our best practices for change management. At the end of this webinar you will have solid strategies for moving forward in your transition to the cloud.
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57 Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center
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JANUARY 14, 2013
The Center staff includes just five staff members (four full-time) plus one very part-time social media manager at five hours a week. In order to accomplish the goals of social media strategy, Deputy Director Risa Breckman knew that 1.) work must be spread among staff 2.) The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person."
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96 NTEN Member Case Study: Rebranding the Accidental Techie
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AUGUST 11, 2010
Amber's summary thoughts on her transition from accidental to purposeful techie: One thing I would add is that my approach at my job was possible because of an organizational culture that allowed it. even if those projects were not ones that would have been expected under those staff members' original job descriptions.
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65 Issue 9 of NTEN:Change: Risks and Rewards
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MARCH 12, 2013
What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture? What kind of risks would your organization be taking if you adopt that new social network into your communications? How can we be sure that the rewards outweigh the risks?
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59 Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter
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JANUARY 30, 2013
An important component listed above is the feedback loop in any measurement process -- we need to create a culture that is open to failure for the sake of identifying where we can do better. There also needs to be accountability, which I believe is a role the nonprofit community in partnership with the grant-makers need to play.
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A Closer Look at Nonprofit Technology Benchmarks: Staffing Ratios
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JULY 13, 2012
5) tech staff some positive things to consider: even though you don't have as many tech staff as larger organizations, your tech staff are less burdened and, by extension, should be able to better serve your non-tech staff and, perhaps more importantly, contribute more to organizational strategy and programmatic work.
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67 Participate in the 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey from Nonprofit Marketing Guide
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NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Last year, 1,288 nonprofits participated, and the report's author, Kivi Leroux Miller, provided NTEN:Change readers with some valuable tips and strategies based on the findings. The NonprofitMarketingGuide.com is conducting its third annual survey of what nonprofit communicators predict for the coming year: > Take the survey here.
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72 A Closer Look at Nonprofit Technology Benchmarks: Tech Adoption Levels
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AUGUST 13, 2012
." – from a Leading Respondent We made significant changes to this topic in our recent iteration of this research, bringing the definition of “Technology Adoption” more in line with NTEN’s mission and using the categories of technology strategy on page 13 of our book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.
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81 The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload
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JUNE 27, 2012
Content curation forms the base of your content strategy pyramid. Your content strategy is essential to the success of an integrated social media strategy. Not only are they learning on the job, but getting work done, too. It’s about curation, creativity, and coordination across channels.
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A Closer Look at Nonprofit Technology Benchmarks: Staffing
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JULY 3, 2012
But here's why: our research shows that having skilled tech staff who feel confident about how to plan and execute around technology projects and strategies at your nonprofit organization correlates to overall satisfaction among staff about your organization's effectiveness as well as overall organizaitonal Technology Effectiveness.
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Issue 8 of NTEN:Change: The "Collaboration" Issue
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DECEMBER 4, 2012
"Collaboration" is a word that comes up quite a bit in discussions about nonprofit strategies and nonprofit capacity.
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76 Infographic: It's About Smarter Investment
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
We've been sharing the results of our annual research on nonprofit investments in technology staffing and budgets in multiple ways this year: with the full report , an infographic with the key benchmarks , a webinar – and we also introduced a dynamic benchmarking tool this month. Well, if you thought we'd stop there, think again!
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94 Learn From Each Other, Not Just the Data
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Katie Delahaye Paine. KD Paine & Partners. Using data to help your organization succeed in its mission involves achieving consensus on what success looks like, getting good data that helps drive decisions making, and performing good analysis so you understand what is and is not working.
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The 11th Issue of NTEN: Change is out: Managing Through the Noise
NTEN
OCTOBER 14, 2013
The NTEN: Change publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and ready to download! Change Management Community Leadership nonprofit technology leadership nptech nten:change Organizational Culture Staffing Strategy Communications'
The Content Curation Issue: NTEN:Change Six is Live
NTEN
JUNE 7, 2012
When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.
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Tips for Content Curators from Beth Kanter: How To Avoid Getting "Content Fried"
NTEN
AUGUST 15, 2012
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.
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62 Using Everyday Technology to Improve Your Services
NTEN
APRIL 10, 2012
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article -- and the rest of the issue -- when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Laura S. Quinn, Idealware and Amy Wagner, MAP For Nonprofits Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford.
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77 Latest Issue of NTEN:Change is Live: Myth-Busting, Everyday Innovation, Case-Studies, Confessions, and More
NTEN
MARCH 1, 2012
Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? Indeed it has, and the latest issue could be our best ever. I'm pleased to announce Issue Five of NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders !
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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project
NTEN
APRIL 24, 2012
[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. First things first: we clean water for kids.
DIY Nonprofit Technology: 5 Steps to Prepare Staff for Merging Technology
NTEN
DECEMBER 13, 2012
Beyond financial and equipment matters, one of the most important concerns that can dictate the technological success or failure of a merger is change management. This official document should address high-level technology strategy surrounding the merger and then focus on departments and individuals most impacted by it.
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