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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

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' Not in San Francisco?

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

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' Not in San Francisco?

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Professionalism in Nonprofit Technology: Should My Techies be Accidental?

NTEN

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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A Leadership Manifesto: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

NTEN

The old style of IT management was a command-and-control model. Tags: Change Management Leadership microsoft NPTech Planning. Nothing gets people on a bandwagon like success, and nothing contributes more to success than measurement. Recognize your fellow leaders. These days, there are more experts than you think.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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Instead, they're either renting them from a managed service provider or moving to Software as a Service (SaaS) for common applications. In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. You can follow Grant on Twitter: @geekbyte.

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Capability Stairsteps

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

What would a stairstep model for adoption of the wiki look like? This is a step that is often ignored in this type of change management. This model of identifying barriers and building a step to climb over each one in sequence can be used to encourage adoption of systems of all kinds.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work.