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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

NTEN

A culture of collaboration From the beginning, the Center’s approach to social media was collaborative, including shared responsibilities, delegation as needed, and erring on the side of inclusion. These cloud applications enable the team to work efficiently.

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Tech Across Your Org: Shared Technology Vision

NTEN

Because it is part of the culture, and ties directly back to their core institutional values of being “transformative, captivating, honest, innovative and personal.” That vision and mission are also translated into the way that everyone in the company engages. Dancers tweet, post blogs, and represent the company in the course of their day.

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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

NTEN

If you have 12 total staff members, and you know that the average ratio of tech-to-org staff for your budget size is 1:24, then you know that having at least 0.5 Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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What lies beneath social media stress, fear, and barriers to adoption in nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. Steve said silo culture has been a barrier to effective web strategy for years. If you witnessed how Web 1.0 Steve MacLaughlin recently pointed this in an email.

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Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

NTEN

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" What are the effects of culture and how can the techie adapt? How does the orgs technologist bring synergy while leaving the techno-babble behind? Conclusion.

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The Future of Nonprofits: Thrive and Innovate in the Digital Age

NTEN

We've engaged Randal Moss and David Neff, authors of The Future of Nonprofits: Thrive and Innovate in the Digital Age , to lead a course on creating a culture of innovation that will help your org become a technology leader. Innovation is a way of thinking, a culture, as much as it is a process.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

[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.