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Community IT August 2016 News covering IT Management at nonprofits and August webinar on methodology for IT Infrastructure Management at nonprofits.

The recording of this online panel is available free to NTEN members. Community IT Innovators’ own Johanny Torrico participated in an NTEN online panel discussion in August 2016 on security threats you may be overlooking at your organization.

If you missed the July free webinar on Building an Effective Nonprofit IT Department you can catch up with the slides and recording. In this webinar Community IT Innovators President and CEO Johan Hammerstrom presents how to effectively integrate your IT staff into the rest of your organization, what functions can be effectively outsourced, and which must remain in-house.

If you missed this presentation on our methodology for nonprofit managers who need to manage an IT project you can see the free slides and recording. We talk about discovering your business needs and linking them to IT initiatives, and how to plan to gather metrics and demonstrate ROI. We touch on how to hire consultants and vet vendors. And we talk about how to integrate staff into your implementation and roll out, and get buy-in and support from executives.

In conjunction with Johan’s webinar this week on building an effective IT department at your nonprofit, I’m sharing the most recent NTEN 9th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report published last August.

This quarter we are turning our attention to IT Management at nonprofits, and sharing some of our experience and insight into how our community manages technology at nonprofit organizations. To start I’d like to share this short description of the rewards of working in nonprofit technology from a post our friend Peter Campbell wrote for the NTEN blog in December.

The MSP 501 list recognizes top managed service providers based on metrics including recurring revenue, growth and other factors. The top MSP 501 companies ranked this year include organizations from around the world and from diverse technology and business backgrounds.

Slides and Recording from President and CEO Johan Hammerstrom on why roles matter, how to scale up your IT to catch up with the aspirations of your mission or the growth of your staff, when to out-source and when to in-house, and what management structures seem to work best in our nonprofit environment.

While we do think SharePoint is a great solution for some organizations, it is a large undertaking that takes stakeholder commitment and time. Depending on the problem you are trying to solve, there are other solutions that may fit better into your culture, and be more cost- and time-effective.
In this webinar Steve Longenecker and Johanny Torrico will examine several alternatives to SharePoint including Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive specifically. We will take questions on framing the choice for your organization and what you and your users can expect with each of these cloud based storage systems.

Community IT Innovators is so pleased to be partnering with our first impact investing fund manager, MicroVest, a firm that believes applying a commercial framework to investing in under-banked markets is the best way to reduce poverty on a global scale.