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Your organization’s hardware, software, and network form the foundation of your technology implementation. If the foundation is not strong, it’s tough to succeed in any other area. It can be difficult to wade through the myriad options for each category, but we’ll help you cut through the jargon and review the essential knowledge needed to understand hardware, software, and networks.
Skill Takeaways:
- Develop a technology audit
- Manage a nonprofit’s technology assets
- Evaluate and choose appropriate software applications
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Presented by:
JOHN KENYON has been helping nonprofits for over 15 years by providing advice, teaching seminars, and writing articles about technology. In the late 90’s he was Information Technology Director at San Francisco’s Management Center. Along with Michael Stein he wrote both The eNonprofit: a guide to ASPs, internet services and online software and the Nonprofit Quarterly article "A Decade of Online Fundraising". John recently served as Training and Consulting Manager at Groundspring.org/Network for Good, helping organizations effectively leverage the Internet, before returning to private practice in 2006. He is an adjunct professor for the University of San Francisco’s Masters of Nonprofit Administration degree program and has been a featured speaker at conferences across the US, in England and online.
Materials
General links:
- TechAtlas Planning Center and the TechSurveyor Asset Management Center [2]
- A Manager's Guide to Healthy and Secure Computing [3]
- TechSoup Healthy and Secure Computing Resources [4]
- Use the Web to Find Free Tech Support [5]
- Best Practices in Nonprofit Technology: Case Studies [6]
- NPTech 101: Technology Essentials for Nonprofit Managers [7]
Software links:
- 15 Ways to use software to improve your knowledge management [8]
- Six Steps to Adopting Open Source Software at Your Org [9]
- Implementing Operations Software, the YMCA Way [10]
- The On-Demand Nonprofit [11]
- Open Source Software You Can Use [12]
- NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference: 2007 IT Staff Track Session Materials [13]
- Selecting Software for Your Organization [14]
- TechSoup Free Downloads [15]
- TechSoup Stock: Discounted Hardware, Software, and Services [16]
- Free Online Trainings [17]
Hardware links:
- Computer System Basics: Forget about keeping up with the Jonses [18]
- Technology Triage: Keeping Mission Critical Technology Running [19]
- Effective Ways to Get Technology Support [20]
- TechSoup Hardware Articles [21]