Why Geeks (like Me) Promote Transparency

Why Geeks (like Me) Promote Transparency

November 18, 2009 Peter Campbell
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Last week, I shared a lengthy piece that could be summed up as: "in a world where everyone can broadcast anything, there is no privacy, so transparency is your best defense." (Mind you, we'd be dropping a number of nuanced points to do that!) Transparency, it turns out, has been a bit of a meme in nonprofit blogging circles lately. I was particularly excited by this post by Marnie Webb, one of the many CEO's at the uber-resource provider and support organization Techsoup Global.

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The Road to Shared Outcomes

The Road to Shared Outcomes

May 26, 2009 Peter Campbell
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At the recent Nonprofit Technology Conference, I attended a somewhat misleadingly titled session called "Cloud Computing: More than just IT plumbing in the sky". The cloud computing issues discussed were nothing like the things we blog about here (see Michelle's and my recent "SaaS Smackdown" posts). Instead, this session was really a dive into the challenges and benefits of publishing aggregated nonprofit metrics. Steve Wright of the Salesforce Foundation led the panel, along with Lucy Bernholz and Lalitha Vaidyanathan. The session was video-recorded; you can watch it here.

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