Webinar: May 23, 2013 – IT Planning & Budgeting: Slides and Link to Recording

Nonprofits often struggle with planning and budgeting for IT expenses. Since IT often falls under overhead expenses, it is difficult to allocate funding for it. Johan Hammerstrom, COO, and Matthew Eshleman, CTO, talk about what you need to consider as you start to plan and budget for IT expenses.

Future of IT Part 2: Consumer Driven IT

In the first post of this series, I covered Apple’s early bet on the consumer space. Today I am going to discuss some of the specific technologies that highlight their development of Consumer-driven IT.

Future of IT Part 1: Where is this all going?

I just returned from the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), which took place in Minneapolis from April 11-13. It was a wonderful experience and I had the privilege of presenting at a session on the future of IT.

Smart Data Backups

Is your organization currently backing up data? If yes, how often is the data backed up? I did a webinar on March 21, where I shared what goes into creating effective data backups, and how we can help your organization create a smart backup strategy.

Planning for Disaster

We never really know when a disaster will happen. We don’t know what kind of disaster it will be or how it will occur. Since disasters tend to be unpredictable, the best approach is to prepare and plan for disaster recovery. Information technology is a vital part of every organization, so IT disaster recovery should be considered as part of the overall business continuity plan.

Learning Online Strategies from the Client Side – Part II

The more we jumped into deliverables, the more we questioned our basic goals. And the more we looked at the metric reporting we started, the more interesting details were revealed.

Webinar: March 21, 2013 – Smart Data Backups: Slides

Data backups are essential for all organizations in case of a disaster, not only a flood or fire, but also old equipment or accidental deletion by a user.
Matthew Eshleman, CTO at Community IT Innovators, shared what goes into creating effective data backups, and how Community IT Innovators can help your organization create a smart backup strategy. He also addressed the importance of knowing and understanding the Service Level Agreement (SLA) in order to develop an effective data backup and availability strategy.

Webinar: February 2013 – File Sharing in the Cloud: Slides

Johan Hammerstrom hosted this webinar on File Sharing in the Cloud in February 2013. No solution has emerged as the killer FS in the Cloud solution just yet. Not in the way that hosted Exchange and Google Apps have come to dominate Email in the Cloud.

Webinar: April 24, 2013 – Best of Nonprofit Tech at NTC: Slides

On April 24 2013 Johan Hammerstrom, Chief Operating Officer, and Matthew Eshleman, Chief Technology Officer, presented an exciting discussion of what they shared and learned at the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC).

Webinar: January 2013 – Nonprofit Technology Resources You Can Use: Slides

Slides from a webinar on Technology Resources for Nonprofits on January 24th, 2013. There is a lot of synergy in the work of these organizations. Each one offers different types of technology resources to help nonprofits save money, learn and share best practices. We got a tremendous response for the webinar. Many of the webinar participants were not aware of the resources offered by these organizations.
We would like to give special thanks to the webinar presenters–Barbara Shaughnessy, Program Manager of Products at TechSoup Global, Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director with NTEN and Ryan Triffitt, Marketing and Partnerships Manager with Idealware–for taking the time to share what their organizations have to offer with our community.