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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Tech Planning Tips for Every Nonprofit or Library

Tech Soup

In August, we hosted a webinar called Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries. Julie Elmore, library director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (Indiana). Travis Montgomery, technology specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (Washington). The Director's Perspective. Technology inventory.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

So the role of the board, every nonprofit has a board of directors, which as we know provides strategy, oversight, and participation. And so I think it’s really important for executive leadership, and development directors and board chairs to understand that being an effective board member is not just asking for money.