Recent Posts

• The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list
• What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations
• A New Résumé for My New Career Path!
• “The Power of Dialogue on Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.”
• In search of my next vocation!
• How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation
• My ever expanding theory of change for nonprofit data and evaluation
• Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!
• Drowning in data, drafting a data checklist, and asking “WHY?”
• Every nonprofit needs a theory of change for its technology. . .and for its evaluation process
• Sunlighting
• TNB Labs has launched, and its first priority is data services for nonprofits!
• Wearing many hats, and adding a new one
• Today I turned down a free Samsung Galaxy tablet. What’s WRONG with me?
• Meet the volunteer nonprofit technology mavens of March 2015!
• Nonprofit technology and drive-by volunteering: Not a good combination!
• Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk outlines a necessary factor in successfully implementing a nonprofit technology project
• “Don’t tell anyone what we’re doing”
• It’s not just a half-day outcomes management training for nonprofit executives – it’s an occasion for rejoicing!
• How much fun is the Nonprofit Technology Conference? This much fun. (Plus some thoughts about shifting from tactical to strategic support of nonprofit organizations.)
• I want a ribbon on my conference badge that says “TECHNOBABE”
• The Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology: Let’s Do This!
• NPtech Labor Market Alert: The Big Job Title of 2015 Will Be “Data Analyst”
• If you don’t know anyone at #15NTC, come stand (or sit) next to me!
• Is KM for you?
• Disinvitations are painful but sometimes necessary
• Meet the #NPtech mavens of November 2014!
• Nonprofit Knowledge Management: It’s alive!
• “Accidental Evaluator” is the new “Accidental Techie.” I’m just saying.
• Pro bono help for Boston area nonprofit professionals: Three opportunities
• Revamping the Nonprofit Tech jobs list
• Peter Miller on what nonprofit organizations need to know about community technology centers
• Let’s call it the Wisdom Cycle: Further adventures in clarifying the role of data in a mission-based organization
• Visualizing the role of data for mission-based organizations – Round II
• Visualizing the role of data for mission-based organizations
• Data Day 2013 in Boston
• And now, a word from your Senior Technical Advisor and Strategist…
• “Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” (Redux)
• A community garden as a use case for interoperable capacity mapping and resource matching tools (Redux)
• Chris Zibailo: A hero in ICT and expectation management
• Where I fail: Balancing between billable hours and volunteerism
• “Forgive and remember”
• Adventures in failure (and ritual studies): The “joyful funeral”
• What every nonprofit executive needs to know about information technology (Redux)
• Basic concepts in technology planning for nonprofits
• Freecycle.Org (Redux)
• Michael Fenter will be joining Tech Networks of Boston!
• The telephone analogy (Redux)
• Why are you always talking about “saving the whales?” (Redux)
• Let’s revisit the concept of failure-friendliness