Blackbaud & Convio: Future of Nonprofit CRM

I recently attended the 2012 Blackbaud Conference held at Gaylord Hotel in the National Harbor, Maryland.  With Blackbaud’s recent acquisition […]

Postini Going Away?

If you are receiving anti-spam protection from Positini you may have noticed some emails announcing changes to your service. Google […]

Nonprofit Risk Summit Takeaways

I had the opportunity to attend and speak about cloud computing and IT governance at the Nonprofit Risk Summit in […]

What’s Your Backup Solution?

Mark Kraemer works as a CITI Network Administrator, and shares his experiences in his column Tech Diaries: Musings of a […]

Aug. 22: Using Data to Tell Your Story

How can you best use data to demonstrate the impact your organization is having? How do you identify your most […]

IT Governance: Making Technology Work for Your Organization

Johan Hammerstrom on IT Governance – essentially the leadership, organizational structures and processes that ensure that IT sustains and extends the mission. The specific leaders, structures and processes are going to vary from organization to organization. IT governance principles and practices for nonprofit organizations help develop your IT strategy, manage your IT risk, and enable better business decisions through information.

Webinar: September 27, 2012 – Tech Funding: Creative Strategies for Success: Slides

Guest blogger David Krumlauf works as a Chief Technologist at the Pierce Family Foundation in Chicago.
As a Chief Technologist at the Pierce Family Foundation, my job involves helping our grantees with all of their technology needs. Most small to medium sized nonprofit organizations I know have trouble getting their technology needs funded. Part of the problem is a lack of funder’s technology understanding and the other is the organization’s grant proposal.
In this webinar I share tips for getting funding for your technology projects.

Webinar: July 2012 – The Cloud for Nonprofits: Slides

This webinar discusses some of the most popular cloud-based tools that support operations and programs by allowing us to collaborate across distances, manage and share documents in a central location, manage our constituents, and store or back-up files so we can access them anywhere at anytime as long as internet is available.
Matt Eshleman, Community IT CTO, explores how these tools can be used and talk about their strengths and weaknesses. Tools covered include: Box.net, Cloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Docs, Office 365, and iBackup.

Office 365: Moving Nonprofits to the Cloud

More and more these days we nonprofits face the choice between continuing to maintain email on premises or to migrate […]

Mobile Options & Implications

With smartphones recently overtaking feature phones in sales, what was once an expensive gadget for tech enthusiasts and upper management […]