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Is Your Organization Ready for Open Source Software?

NTEN

What does this mean when weighing your open source options? You know your organization needs to make a core technology change. Change Management Leadership Open Source Open Source tech leadership' Paul Keogan. Founder and Principal. BackOffice Thinking.

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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management. Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. So, we opened the membership to anyone in the music industry.

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How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. One organization had the capacity to support community members, but they weren’t able to fill their open spots. In year one, they received a small batch of submissions, and they were terribly disappointed.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected. The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced.

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Social Media in the Board Room

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You Tags: change management. And let's take that a step further, why not use social media as part of the governing process. .

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

Sometimes the user/manager and executive are the same person. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Often, the engineer role is filled by an outside developer, consultant, or firm.

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