Moving Your IT Infrastructure Into the Cloud: Lessons from the Field

Community IT Innovators is proud to sponsor the newest report from Idealware: Moving IT Infrastructure Into the Cloud. Between marketing hype and high-profile data breaches, some nonprofits remain skeptical of making the move. How can you make sense of the benefits and risks? In this report Idealware looks at Cloud-based solutions for online backup and file storage and office and productivity suites.

Planning an Office Move – Slides & Recording Links

If you missed our presentation on our pointers for managing an office move from the IT perspective, you can find the slides and recording here. In this webinar Community IT Innovators office move experts William Maxwell and Rick Alloway present with humor and wit the best practices to pursue, and pitfalls to avoid.

Webinar: October 20th 2016 – Identifying IT Risks Slides & Recording

Join Community IT Innovators experts Eva Townsend and Nura Aboki for this webinar on Identifying IT Risks. Eva and Nura perform routine Technology Assessments on existing and new clients several times a month and will share our best practices for reviewing IT risks and putting safeguards in place.

IT Related Things to Consider When Moving Office

Here’s an oldie but hopefully a goody from the folks at Cisco in 2010 – a basic checklist of 8 items to consider from the IT point of view when you move. Join us next week when William Maxwell and Rick Alloway share many more than 8 points from our considerable experience in making the IT portion of the move go smoothly and keeping your staff productive through the stress of the move. A move can be the time for your IT to shine!

Moving Horror Stories – Apartment Therapy

I’m sure for all the sob stories on horrible movers on this thread there are hundreds of happy customers out there whose moves went right on schedule and whose movers broke nothing. But those are not these stories.

September 2016 News

At Community IT Innovators, we are honored to serve nearly 150 nonprofit organizations every day. We are proud to announce that Community IT has been named the top Managed Service Provider (MSP) headquartered in Washington, DC, and one of the top 200 MSPs in North America, according to MSPMentor.

Community IT Innovators Highest Ranked MSP in Washington DC – 2016 MSP 501

In the North America Top 200 Community IT Innovators ranked #163, which makes us the highest ranked MSP in Washington DC. On the Global Top 501, we ranked 191 globally. Congratulations to our team! This ranking makes us determined to keep and increase our level of customer service and satisfaction.

Planning and IT Project Management for Nonprofits – Slides and Recording Links

If you missed our presentation on our methodology for nonprofit managers who need to manage an IT project, you can find the slides and recording here. This webinar talks about discovering your business needs and linking them to IT initiatives, and how to plan to gather metrics and demonstrate ROI. We address roles and responsibilities, planning, implementation, follow up, and tips for success. We touch on how to hire consultants and vet vendors.

Nonprofit Technology Return on Investment – What Is ROI?

How does my organization recognize the many tangible, financial, and intangible benefits to better justify IT projects that often seem to be costly both in time and budget? Can we use ROI projections to help our decision making process on those investments up front? Is ROI more than just an educated guess? This article by Peter Campbell addresses these questions and can help guide your IT project management.

August 2016 News

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