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Gartner’s 2013 Technology Trends and Why You Should Care
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 29, 2013
For some reading this, you’re probably wondering who this “Gartner” is and why … Cloud Computing Mobile Computing #nptech mobile apps
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Gartner’s 2013 Technology Trends and Why You Should Care (Part 2)
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
Cloud Computing IT Infrastructure SaaS/PaaS Technology Analytics big data cloud computing Gartner technology trends 2013In addition to mobile, these next five trends have the ability to radically alter the nonprofit technology landscape in the coming years with a heavy emphasis on data and analytics that is so crucial to nonprofit organizations.
10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About
NTEN
JULY 1, 2009
Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics. According to Gartner, the average server uses 65% of its power just sitting idle. Gartner noted that client virtualization is still pretty new, though, and there are kinks to work out. . Gartner agrees.
Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner | TechCrunch
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner | TechCrunch : Fake fans, fake “likes” and fake reviews are some of the worst aspects of social media — or at least for those of us earnest enough to take user-generated content and the will of the crowd seriously. Now, new research from Gartner lays bare the fact that it’s only going to get worse, as paid social media interactions become a more established industry unto themselves.
Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT
NTEN
APRIL 29, 2011
Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. Change Management gartner NPTech NTEN IT Staff
Why Savvy Nonprofits Are Dumping QuickBooks™ and Moving to the Cloud
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 29, 2015
The great majority of CFOs are planning to implement cloud services for their companies in 2015 and beyond, according to surveys from CFO Magazine, KPMG and Gartner. Believe it or not, your organization is about to be part of an enormous wave of change in the next few years.
Google + Nonprofit Brand Pages
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Why does Google + launch new stuff when I’m on a book deadline !! The long awaited brand pages on Google + are here. I put a post out on Google + asking what nonprofits had set up pages and was able to identify 88 from all the responses and placed them in a open circle here.
5 Technology Trends Of 2013 Nonprofits Should Care About
TechImpact
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Gartner , a tech analyst firm, created a list of trending technology resources nonprofits and organizations are taking advantage of to make a greater impact using more robust resources, at a lower cost than traditional IT. Image courtesy of Wisepreneur.
Why and How You Should Get Proactive About Customer Service
SocialFish
MAY 4, 2015
Delivering a superior customer experience is the new marketing battlefield, says Gartner, projecting that by 2017 half of all consumer product investments will fund innovations that improve consumer experience.
Gamification: Much Less Scary Than What’s Under the Bed
SocialFish
MAY 28, 2012
Gartner analysts predict 50% of corporate innovation will be “gamified” by 2015. Here’s the latest post in our “INDUSTRY INSIDERS” column. Every Monday, we’ll be bringing you the inside scoop from several awesome association technology vendors and consultants who will share the insights they have gleaned from years of working in our association industry.
Are You Going To Adopt Google+ for Professional Learning/Networking? Why or Why Not?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 11, 2011
Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 2, 2011
Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.
The Bottom Line with Bitdefender BOX
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 17, 2015
Gartner, a research firm, estimates that by 2020, the IoT will include 25 billion devices. In a world where more and more of our devices are talking to each other and sharing data online, you need to start worrying about where all that data is going.
Technology Trends for Nonprofits in 2011
NTEN
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
1] And not just that, according to Gartner Research, by 2013 mobile phones will take over PC’s as the most common web access device. [2] 2] Gartner Research: ‘Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond; A New Balance’, Jan 2010. [3]
How agile are you?
SocialFish
JULY 10, 2012
From Scott Brinker’s essay accompanying these slides : Gartner recently predicted that by 2017, the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO. Everything Is Marketing, Everyone Must Be Agile. View more PowerPoint from Scott Brinker.
Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS
NTEN
JULY 15, 2009
Enter Gartner. According to Gartner (and they do consider themselves the authority here), Cloud computing is: A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. The analogy the Gartner analyst used was electricity: As consumers, we don't worry about how electricity gets to our light switch, we just worry about flipping the switch effectively.
IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right
NTEN
MAY 7, 2009
That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. It stinks, but you have to do what you have to do.
Webinar: Appreciate, Engage and Retain Your Supporters
Frogloop
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Gartner Inc. Do you need new ideas on how to engage your supporters? Does your donor acknowledgement process need a refresh? Do you want to better understand your supporters? If yes, this webinar is for you! No matter how many supporters you have, you are probably constantly looking for new ways to appreciate, engage and retain them. All across the fundraising landscape, donor retention is falling. reports that 75 percent of CRM initiatives fail to impact the customer experience.
Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 24, 2016
Brian Burke, VP of Research at Gartner, defines 7 key considerations when designing the player experience for gamification: Business Outcomes and Success Metrics. posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store.
How Carnegie Corporation of New York Got Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 27, 2012
It has great discussion boards, hosts webinars, provides Gartner IT research, and organizes a big annual conference. Carnegie Corporation’s Loretta Harris recently found out how strangely easy it is to get Microsoft donations through TechSoup. Once she registered it was easy to keep coming back.
Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Another Gartner study found that export tariffs and high transportation costs tend to restrict secondary PC markets.
How to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Nonprofit BYOD Workplace
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 25, 2013
In May, Gartner predicted that by 2017, half of employers will stop giving employees company devices altogether. In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop.
Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 20, 2013
Get free Gartner research. Philanthropy is very much a two-sided coin. Charities carry out mission-based work. Foundations fund and coordinate mission-based work. 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. are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. TechSoup also has a new foundation resource area for software donations.
Has Facebook Entered the Trough of Disillusionment?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 2, 2007
That's a diagram I created to illustrate Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles. My FLickr Stream. I thought about that diagram when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? " He points to some early warning signs, but admits he doesn't have a crystal ball.
WeAreMedia: Social Networks - Build the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Gartner VP recently published a report from analyst Andrea Di Maio, who says citizen social networks will complement, and may replace, some government functions.
Cloud Before Cloud was Cool
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 27, 2011
Last week, Gartner “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company” issued a press release around the results of a worldwide survey of CIO’s in the commercial sector. They use the Internet… What is most interesting to me is the benefits that commercial CIO’s espouse to Gartner when talking about their reasons for implementing cloud computing – they are just as valuable to nonprofits. Author: Tad Druart.
Some lessons from the “enterprise”
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2007
For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Some lessons from the “enterprise&# October 11, 2007 One of the areas of technology I watch is the world of “enterprise&# IT. Think big companies, lots of bucks, lots of boxes.
A few Second Life Tidbits
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 2, 2007
There is also some analysis of Second Life's Ride on the Gartner Hype Cycle (See enlargement of chart here and additional comments here ) from the PR perspective Alexandra Samuel from Social Signals starts off 2007 with several announcements related to Second Life - the addition of a virtual worlds manager and an Open house in Second Life later on today. There is also a post titled " Seven Reasons Why You Should Consider Second Life.
Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I want to eat statistics for dinner.
Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2013
Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. Another Gartner study found that export tariffs and high transportation costs tend to restrict secondary PC markets.
What is Green IT?
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 27, 2009
For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers.
US Congress in Second Life!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 4, 2007
Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission.
Devising a Print Management Strategy
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
First, the scary stats in the white paper: According to the Gartner Group, an average of 1% to 3% of a company’s annual revenues is consumed by document production.
Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. My FLickr Stream.
Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Photo by OxMour. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment.
Using Industry Data to Set Business Goals
Mobile Commons
AUGUST 20, 2015
There are many sources to pull from when looking for industry data, including primary research firms like Gartner and Forrester, as well as boutique firms that focus on the professional services market, such as PSVillage and SPI Research. The daily demands of running a large global professional services group within an even larger customer success organization at Upland Software can make it difficult to stand back and plan for future growth.
First Ever Capitol Hill Electronics Collection Day
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 27, 2009
As a major asset recovery company, Redemtech readily champions electronics reuse, often citing recent Gartner statistics on the topic: read more.
A View of the Cloud from India
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2011
During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries.
Avoiding technology project failure
Idealware
JANUARY 11, 2009
While success rates vary by project size, company size, project nature and so on, technology researchers at Gartner still figure that about half of corporate technology initiatives fail. Usually, we’re all so focused on the good stuff we want to do, it’s hard to step back and consider when and why Information Technology projects go wrong.
Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2007
Photo UgoTrade Blog. I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation.
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