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How Much Are You Paying Your IT Staff?
Flickr Photo: eszterHow much should you offer a new Help Desk Support Specialist? How many IT staff do organizations your size have, anyway? What are other nonprofits outsourcing when it comes to IT?
NTEN and The Nonprofit Times are making it easy for you to fill the gap between expensive benchmarking services costing thousands of dollars and going it alone. We’re surveying thousands of staff at nonprofits big and small to find out what it takes to make technology work for them and what qualified staff they need. In turn, we'll give you the hard numbers you need to invest in technology.
> Take the Online Survey (it's anonymous!)
If you make technology decisions for your nonprofit, please take this survey. Then pass it on to a colleague! This survey will find out:
What Can O Do For Your Org? Teach You a Lesson in Online Fundraising
What really excites me about the result is the lesson it can teach advocacy and nonprofit organizations across the country.
Hopefully, as the veterans of the Obama team share their time and information with the sector, we'll learn more about the details of the strategy and execution so we can apply it to volunteer, awareness, and fundraising efforts. In the meantime, I'm happy to be able to send a piece of this type of strategy to today's appreciated NTEN member:
Member Appreciation Update: Free Webinar
Member Appreciation month continues with another NTEN give-away, a free webinar:
Terri Dufner, we're sending you a coupon for a free NTEN webinar so you can build on your nonprofit technology skills and put them to use toward your mission.
Reminder: All NTEN members can attend our special free webinar this Thursday:
Member Appreciation: Week 3 and Going Strong
Happy 3rd-week-of-member-appreciation-month!
I'm excited to start off this week's NTEN give-aways with some NTEN Gear. I'm doubly excited to give that gear to an NTEN member participating in our group on Facebook:
101 Uses for Dead Data: 101 to 99
Sure, you collect a lot of data, but if you don't use it effectively, it's essentially dead. And I'm talking "a tree falls on you in a forest and nobody's around to help" dead. This occasional blog series aims to give you some inspiration for creatively interpreting and using your data.
101. Track an Illness
Common Ground and Consulting Contest Winner Announced
All week, we've been running our CRM plus Consulting hours give-away, and I'm excited to announce the nonprofit NTEN organizational member that will be receiving the following:
2 free seats for the first year of Common Ground, the new CRM from Convio- 10 free consulting hours to help get things set up, from Causeway Interactive
And the winner is:
Your NPTech Professional Network: Member Appreciation Month Update
When economic woes and job layoffs dominate the news cycle, we tend to examine our own careers and financial standing. Am I okay? Is my job safe?
Flickr Credit: RobbieG1It's times like these that being part of a community of professionals, a community of colleagues who share tips, insights, and even job opportunities, becomes even more valuable.
For us, the nonprofit technology professionals -- a niche that includes IT professionals as well as fundraising and communications folks, as well as the small nonprofit staffers who are jacks-of-all-trades -- to do our jobs well, there's the added need to stay on top of the fast-evolving technologies and trends.
Building that community and providing that professional development training is the idea behind NTEN, and the mission we pursue.
Member Appreciation Winner: Google AdWords for You?
As the second week of Member Appreciation month starts to wind down, I'm glad for the opportunity to discuss today's particular NTEN give-away:
AdWords for Dummies, courtesy of Jossey-Bass/Wiley publishers.
Now, I can bring up Google's AdWords and how it could fit in with your nonprofit organization:
Member Appreciation Updates: CRM & Consulting Contest Plus Free Webinar
There are only a couple more days to participate in our CRM and Consulting give-away contest, so don't forget to enter. It's easy: just vent about what you wish your CRM could do for your organization but doesn't.
While you're waiting to hear who wins on Friday, join us for the free-for-members webinar about working with your CRM: Get More From Your Database, today at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Sign up here!
In other Member Appreciation news, I'm also happy to announce today's NTEN give-away:
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A group of researchers recently claimed that hundreds of galaxies are moving in the same direction, "apparently toward something invisible and possibly very large", raising the possibility that the universe is just one enormous game of multi-ball Pong.
That's probably a long-term worry. In the short term, you've only got a few more days to submit articles -- or cool links -- for the next issue of NTEN Connect.
