Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Tags: mobile. 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. Slope of Enlightenment.

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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. That said, you want to make sure the cuts you make are smart, and that they set you up for success when your budget can expand again. IT is not a cost center.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Get free Gartner research. Hold a yearly conference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

As a major asset recovery company, Redemtech readily champions electronics reuse, often citing recent Gartner statistics on the topic: read more. Tags: Digital Divide Green Office GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers Recycled & Refurbished Computers Tech Planning.

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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. Tags: nptech greenit. These include virtualizing your servers to use fewer boxes, and using your technology to minimze travel.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

"As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation," said James Lundy , managing vice president at Gartner, Inc. So, is your organization prepared?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. Part of a BI strategy is agreeing on definitions for exactly what you're tracking, and how you'll track it. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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