I was catching up on my reading during a recent trip to Dallas and Austin and came across this fantastic guide from Peter Campbell. It is truly required reading for any nonprofit leader. Read this before embarking on, while in the midst of, or just while thinking about technology initiatives.
This webinar is for everyone – we all have passwords, we all use our own devices for work from time to time, and we all suffer if the next big security breach puts our organization in the spotlight in a very bad way.
Microsoft has announced it will merge its two chat applications. Lync becomes Skype for business March 18, 2015.
There is no conference quite like the NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). Despite it’s growing size (setting a new non-DC record of 1900+ attendees this year) it remains close knit and communal in feeling. I was quite heartened by what I experienced and learned at 15NTC this year and look forward to next year’s meeting in San Jose.
With this post we launch a new feature called “President’s Corner.” I hope to share a little bit of what I am learning week to week and look forward to engaging with our community.
Today’s demanding environments require that non-profits consume more information than ever before—and then represent that information to a diverse audience. The information you gather about your programs and constituents helps drive a superior level of performance and helps to convince funders and donors that your organization is worth the investment.
As more and more data moves out to the cloud, and more and more staff are working from a wide variety of remote locations, one of the last remaining ties to a physical computer may be specific files. Thus far, file sharing has been one of hardest tasks to make user-friendly and secure when in the cloud.
While there are tools to move your files in their entirety into Dropbox or a SharePoint OneDrive document library, migrating to the cloud is a great opportunity to critically evaluate your documents and reassess what you really need to transfer into the cloud.
In this follow-up post, I will consider Windows 10 from the perspective of those in charge of rolling out new computers and operating systems. Whether your role is technical or administrative, you should start thinking about how Windows 10 will affect your organization.
Enter Windows 10. Unlike Windows 8, Microsoft is returning to a more familiar user interface. Several commentators have noted that the technical preview is aimed directly at the business market and deals only with a traditional desktop work environment.