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2009 IT Staffing & Spending Report
3-30-2010 from NTEN
"The nonprofit sector works hard to maximize the effective use of technology. Organizations face difficult challenges -- from insufficient data and lean budgets to overworked staffs -- just trying to keep up with changing technologies and trends, and with the rest of the sector. To help them cast an analytical eye on technology decisions, NTEN and The NonProfit Times came together to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey. It gives us a good look at the state of nonprofit staffing, and helps us provide organizations with information to help evaluate the state of their IT spending.
We began this effort with the 2006 survey, the first of its kind. We have repeated the survey every year since, and plan to continue doing so annually to provide a long-term view of nonprofit IT staffing.
Our hope is that this survey will help nonprofits answer the challenging questions by providing greater context of what similar — and possibly more successful — organizations are doing."
http://www.nten.org/research/it_staffing_2009
The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Most surveyed believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
The Future of the Non-Profit Internet
2-25-2010 Geoff Livingston for Mashable.com
http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/non-profit-internet/
Social Media Strategy For Nonprofits
series by Frank Barry - 11.2009 for Netwits ThinkTank
http://www.netwitsthinktank.com/site/c.ifINKZOzFmG/b.5287149/k.A3A9/Social_Media_for_Nonprofits.htm
Leading social change with a network mindset
The revolution in communications technology — from social networking tools to conference call systems, blogs and wikis — is changing the way we work. A recent paper from the Monitor Institute, Working Wikily 2.0: Social Change with a Network Mindset, examines how grantmakers and nonprofits can advance social change by embracing principles such as openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making and distributed action. The authors explore when to ‘work wikily,’ what types of networks to use and eight lessons to help you start networking in order to achieve your goals. (The first lesson? “Design your experiments around a problem to solve, not the tools.”) The article concludes with a useful list of blogs, articles and books focused on networking.
(PDF) http://www.monitorinstitute.com/documents/WorkingWikily2.0hires.pdf
Phoebe Owens
Internet or Web in Nonprofits
Click here to visit the wiki for best practices in using Web 2.0: http://nptechbestpractices.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
Click here for lessons learned about using technology: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/ut_8_2001/8.html
TechSoup
Click here for lessons learned on technology training: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/page5421.cfm
