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 [...]
A remote funding developer. They work from home, they take up less support costs and they don’t involve supervisory time – what’s not to love? I worked as a remote funding researcher recently, and while I’m not willing to flat out say it doesn’t work (comments welcome from people doing just fine at this job) [...]
Why should you read “Here Comes Everybody”, the latest book by Clay Shirky? It’s not about non-profits. It’s not about fundraising or marketing. It is probably the best explanation of why the internet is changing how everybody connects – and is essential reading for anyone interested in social change in the internet [...]
What do you get when you squeeze hackers and social activists into a small space for a weekend, add competition and a large helping of idealism? The Social Innovation Camp!The SIC is based on a style of gathering popular among hackers, coders and other geek-culture types: it’s related to Foo Camps and BarCamps, annual [...]
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