Telecommuting Is About More Than Just The Technology
We’ve hit the golden age of telework, with myriad options to work remotely from a broadband-connected home, a hotel, or.
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 published on the NTEN Blog in February of 2014. It originally appeared in the eBook “Collected Voices:.
This article was originally posted on the NTEN Blog in January of 2014. Requests for Proposals (RFPs) seem like they.
If I have a good sense of who reads my blog, you’re likely familiar with Dan Palotta, notable in the.
I owe somebody an apology. Last night, a nice woman that I've never met sent me an email relaying (not proposing) an idea that others had pitched. Colleagues of mine who serve in communications roles in the nonprofit sector were suggesting a talk on "Why CIOs/CTOs should be transitioned into Chief Digital and Data Officers". And, man, did that line get me going.
This article was originally published on the Idealware Blog in February of 2011. There’s been a ton of talk over.
Last week, GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and three other nonprofit assessment and reporting organizations made a huge announcement: the metrics that they track are about to change. Instead of scoring organizations on an "overhead bad!" scale, they will scrap the traditional metrics and replace them with ones that measure an organization's effectiveness.
Idealware's blog is not the best place for me to talk about my kid. There's Facebook and Flickr for that sort of thing. But I want to talk about him anyway, and open a discussion, if possible, about children and the nptech community.
The technology trend that defines this decade is the movement towards open, pervasive computing. The Internet is at our jobs, in our homes, on our phones, TVs, gaming devices. We email and message everyone from our partners to our clients to our vendors to our kids. For technology managers, the real challenges are less in deploying the systems and software than they are in managing the overlap, be it the security issues all of this openness engenders, or the limitations of our legacy systems that don't interact well enough. But the toughest integration is not one between software or hardware systems, but, instead, the intersection of strategic computing and organizational culture.
My esteemed colleague Michelle Murrain lobbed the first volley in our debate over whether tis safer to host all of your data at home, or to trust a third party with it. The debate is focused on Software as a Service (SaaS) as a computing option for small to mid-sized nonprofits with little internal IT expertise. This would be a lot more fun if Michelle was dead-on against the SaaS concept, and if I was telling you to damn the torpedos and go full speed ahead with it. But we're all about the rational analysis here at Idealware, so, while I'm a SaaS advocate and Michelle urges caution, there's plenty of give and take on both sides. Michelle makes a lot of sound points, focusing on the very apt one that a lack of organizational technology expertise will be just as risky a thing in an outsourced arrangement as it is in-house. But I only partially agree.
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