Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I've been reading a recent white paper and blog post on the subject of telework posted by my colleague Jim Lynch, and I had to express my appreciation and reactions. Teleworking is so much greener as Citrix's white paper amply demonstrates. Thanks, Jim. My first reaction is "cool!" It's also more fun and more relaxing.

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OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

This desire for transparency extends to data security and privacy—implementing and communicating your security measures is a fundamental way to signal transparency and respect in a digital world. Technology vendors, corporations, and other nonprofits may hesitate to collaborate with an unreliable data partner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

Note From Beth: Last month, I did a webinar for the SalesForce Foundation on measuring social media. The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. Two recent papers that caught my eye were: ” How to Use Social Media for Social Good ” and “ Building Meaningful Engagement.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

In a recent white paper, Best Practices for Managing Teleworkers: Changing Attitudes, Changing Ways (registration required), analysts from Frost and Sullivan discuss practical steps managers can. Measuring success. Technology tools. Give remote and telecommuting employees the technology tools for telework success.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

Cryptocurrency is currently transitioning from the ‘laugh’ to the ‘fight’ stage as the Federal Government is making plans for measured regulation s. While the perception of crypto may have been tainted by the historical connection to the Silk Road illicit market where anonymity was king, the truth of this technology is very different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments. How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. Her blog is Contentious.com.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a results consultant I had the pleasure of working with the SEFCU team to design a measurement framework that enabled SEFCU to become more targeted and specific about how they wanted to invest their human and financial capital to ultimately be able to demonstrate their success toward their end desired result of “measuring lives improved”.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Setting goals that align with your nonprofit’s digital strategy allows you to measure effectiveness and adapt tactics to improve conversions. Events: An action on your site, such as signing up for a newsletter or downloading a white paper. About the Author. . Rai Masuda.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Last summer I explored the distinction in an online piece that argued that communication is what transforms data into useful information, and that this communication process has been fundamentally altered by the latest wave of digital technology. All data depend on measurement, even data as common and seemingly objective as the weather.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

On demand access to trusted information for every realm of decision-making is available, and yet for all the technology progress – many in our social sector find ourselves at loss. This was a misperception and they used that to go out into the field to educate folks. You can find more examples and case studies in this white paper.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off on Tuesday and the event to attend is the Science Fair! This event provides an opportunity to network with nonprofit technology professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. Singlebrook Technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! at 4:51 pm Brilliant write-up, Michelle — and thanks for being not only the author of the NTEN White Paper but also a fellow board member! Appreciating you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Anecdotally and intuitively, you know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in your engagement with donors, volunteers, event participants and other people your organization relies on to fulfill your mission. That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

That is why nonprofit leaders and boards need a strategic, modern CFO to analyze potential scenarios, see around the corner, and aid in effective decision-making, all while using technology and innovative thinking. The modern CFO is visionary, abundance-minded, collaborative, and technologically savvy.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Click here to download full White Paper. If the measurement is on an annual basis, then long outages are allowable because downtime can sum across many months (e.g. Look for long-term evidence that the provider can rise to the occasion so that when a crisis hits your community your core technology will not fail.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

Underscoring these challenges, many organizations lack the measurement frameworks to answer questions like “How can my organization improve?” Created in partnership with NetHope and NTEN , this whitepaper explores what organizations stand to gain by comparatively measuring their performance against their peers.

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Gyrus

APRIL 10, 2018

Typically, in organizations where a technological change is suggested, there is a bit of a push back as users have acclimated to the system currently in place. But with new technologies, sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself, is it just being used for the sake…… Learning Managment System – LMS Blog. Recent Post.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

I thought Mary Beth Westmoreland’s latest piece on npENGAGE did a great job summarizing the high-level technology trends we often see and hear about in the nonprofit sector. So, I wanted to focus on the market trends and influences that will inform how nonprofits implement and leverage this technology. A Delicate Balance.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. What’s not to like? Not So Rosy After All.

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