Year-end Reflections
This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog on December 24th, 2015. As years go, 2015 was a significant.
This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog on December 24th, 2015. As years go, 2015 was a significant.
…is the name of the track that I am co-facilitating at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit. I’m a late addition, there.
We’ve hit the golden age of telework, with myriad options to work remotely from a broadband-connected home, a hotel, or.
This article was originally posted on the NTEN Blog in January of 2014. Requests for Proposals (RFPs) seem like they.
This article was originally published on the Idealware Blog in December of 2010. Like many of my NPTECH peers, I.
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.
I'm following up on my post suggesting that Wikis should be grabbing a portion of the market from word processors. Wikis are convenient collaborative editing platforms that remove a lot of the legacy awkwardness that traditional editing software brings to writing for the web. Gone are useless print formatting functions like pagination and margins; huge file sizes; and the need to email around multiple versions of the same document. There are a lot of use cases for Wikis:
An award-winning friend of mine at NTEN referred me to this article, by Jeremy Reimer, suggesting that Word, the ubiquitous Microsoft text manipulation application, has gone the way of the dinosaur. The "boil it down" quote:
"Word was designed in a different era, for a very specific purpose. We don't work that way anymore."
For the past four years or so, at two different organizations, I've been evaluating Microsoft's Sharepoint 2007 as a Portal/Intranet/Business Process Management solution. It's a hard thing to ignore, for numerous reasons:
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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