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Green IT for Dummies

Robert Weiner

Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT. They describe it as: Green IT for Dummies … is intended to give organizations simple and straight-forward ideas on how to reduce the environmental impact of IT systems and harness the power of IT to reduce the wider environmental impacts of climate change in society.

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Green IT for Dummies

Tech Soup

Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT. They describe it as: Green IT for Dummies. Tags: Green Office GreenTech. You can download the guide here and also check out the GreenTech-tagged posts on this blog and a full collection of resources on the subject in the GreenTech Initiative section of our site.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

NTEN

In June, Tides partnered with Rhiza on a data mapping pilot using their Insight software. After doing some research and testing out some of the data mapping tools, we started with just making basic maps of where grants were made and partners are located, from which initial story threads emerged. and "to what ends?"

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

The above is the analysis of Jozef Vodicka, a Slovakian geek and entrepreneur, whose team has developed a multi-mobile-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) application for documenting illegal dumping and, not incidentally, for mobilizing environmental consciousness and fostering citizen engagement. The TrashOut Approach.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. Sports equipment?

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Integrating A Network Mindset Into Your Daily Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Steve Waddell , talks about the value of mapping networks for systemic change, maps are most useful as tools to generate discussion about “what is”, “what can be” and “what needs to change”. Looking at your network map while thinking of gaps can be an insightful step. Mapping Your LinkedIn Network. What surprises you?