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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

This is the third in a series of posts aimed at new consultants in the nonprofit sector. You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. listings in paid and free consultants directories. Tags: Consulting.

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7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. Hopefully, your supervisor has lived through similar experiences and can offer advice and validation to help you. You are usually provided with vacation time. Use these days. Non-profit fundraisers are notorious for working on their days off. Just don’t do that.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

During this time, naturally, Tech Impact received a lot of requests for support and implementation projects and things like that—and also advice. So, this particular organization came to us—as I said, their management team—and consulted with us. And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop?

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