This morning saw a sharp rise in the markets – known as a “dead cat bounce” by financial analysts. After a spectacular crash, the stock markets often rebound sharply – but this isn’t a real indication of improvement. Apparently, even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.
Wondering how [...]
Recently, I had a chance to hear Leslie Crutchfield speak – she’s the co-author of “Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits”
She and Heather McLeod-Grant spent four years studying a dozen high-impact nonprofits to “uncover their secrets to success.” Now, I usually shy away from these kinds of books (”The Seven Highly Effective [...]
Some updates on stories we’ve been following at Social Ch@nge:
Google’s Evil Meter:
You’ll remember that Amnesty International refuses to use Google’s free project management programs on the grounds that Google’s human rights record is poor (if you’re picturing intellectuals chained to their desks, better check out our earlier post ‘Say It Ain’t So, Google’) For a [...]
We are all guilty. You too.
We have all used Excel as a database, even though it’s really not a database program. Real database programs take training – Excel, however, can make you that call list in the blink of an eye. So you use it. There’s more: many of us have used Photoshop for [...]
To paraphrase Britt Bravo, Changebloggers are people who are using online resources to raise awareness, build community and facilitate everyone’s taking action to make the world a better place. Qui Diaz originally posted the 3 questions that set off the Changeblogging meme and we’ve reposted them below with our responses – they look easy [...]
So you’ve collected information about your IT needs, you’ve thought deeply and grokked your problems. Now what?
First, network, workstations, and printers. Get a contract, or multiple contracts, with a service provider. Ideally, you’ll be able to work with one vendor to support the whole kit and kaboodle. More likely, you’ll be looking at several contracts: [...]
Having managed IT off the side of my desk (in addition to fundraising), I wanted to pass along a few nuggets of wisdom about information technology. Specifically, I was asked the other day how to hire a good “geek” for a non-profit. Seemed that all the best IT experts were either too specialized [...]
There comes a time, usually if you’re working remotely or have no office, where you really need a way to share files, documents, messages and pictures online between a lot of people for free.
Easy, I said at my last Amnesty International meeting, we’ll just set up a Google non-profits account – all their project management [...]
I was going to write about all the excellent non-profit blogs out there that there are to be read, but Beth’s Blog already made a fantastic entry to get you started on this (granted it focuses exclusively on Gen X/Y/Millennial blogs – but we’re Gen X/Y and it’s just to get you started).
A confession is [...]
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