It seems to me that the next step for me and my fellow nonprofit techies is to think about how to bring together our colleagues who are engaged in electronic advocacy with members of the Games For Change movement... more »
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Tuesday, February 27
Geek heaven: A Games For Change salon at M.I.T.
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Tue 27 Feb 2007 01:02 PM EST
It seems to me that the next step for me and my fellow nonprofit techies is to think about how to bring together our colleagues who are engaged in electronic advocacy with members of the Games For Change movement... more » Saturday, February 24
Another volume for the nonprofit technology bookshelf
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 24 Feb 2007 05:07 PM EST
 Paul-Brian McInerney sent me an email, to let me know that a new book is out: Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge. It's edited by Michael Cortés and Kevin Rafter; I'm not familiar with the work of the latter two gentlemen, but am keenly interested in reading any book on nonprofit technology that can boast of chapters by Paul-Brian, Dale Fitch, Peter Dobkin Hall, and the inimitable John McNutt. I'm particularly looking forward to reading Paul-Brian's chapter, "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in IT Adoption among Nonprofits." He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on this topic as a graduate student at Columbia, and I was one of the folks that he interviewed on the history of the circuit rider movement. (My buddy Gavin Clabaugh reports that he was extensively interviewed, which is great, because Gavin was definitely present at the creation.) I couldn't help Paul-Brian with any eyewitness accounts of the movement's earliest days, since I came along in the second or third wave of riders, but it was certainly delightful to find that someone was taking a scholarly interest in the subject. I hope that this book can help us to keep our eyes on the goal of combining the best insights of researchers and nonprofit technology practitioners... more » Saturday, February 17
Ronald L. Cohen, outstanding teacher
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 17 Feb 2007 11:42 AM EST
 My friend Ron Cohen is a candidate for the outstanding teacher award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to him. Unlike the rest of this blog, this article isn't directly focused on information and communication technologies for the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, but if you keep reading, you'll see that it all ties into the work I do... more » Thursday, February 15
Boston's other idealists
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 15 Feb 2007 07:55 AM EST
  Although I do my share of worrying about career ladders for young techies in the Boston area who want to work in the nonprofit sector, I'm also aware that there's a whole other contingent of idealists whose professional aspirations we should be considering... more » Wednesday, February 14
Where have all the developers gone?
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Wed 14 Feb 2007 07:44 AM EST
 These days, it seems like the constant refrain in the Boston area is, "Deborah, can you find us a database and web developer who is highly qualified and willing to work with small nonprofits?" It's really difficult right now, but I'm not surprised, because it's part of a larger trend that I started to worry about two years ago... more » Sunday, February 11
Online social networking and knowledge management for nonprofits: How about a mash-up?
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sun 11 Feb 2007 06:29 AM EST
 I still think that in the nonprofit sector, we need better knowledge management of our knowledge management. It isn't enough to have a wonderful social networking web site that can help you cross-reference social change goals, organizations, individuals, and actions. What we badly need is a mash-up that gives us one-stop shopping for all sorts of information and resources... more » Saturday, February 10
More about spirituality and nonprofit technology: Let's have an interfaith seder at the upcoming conference
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 10 Feb 2007 08:02 AM EST
 This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, DC coincides with some major religious festivals, such as Easter and Passover - and it occurs to me that this is an opportunity to share an ecclectic, improvisational, interfaith seder with N-TEN colleagues... more » Friday, February 2
Nonprofit watchdogs get their own blogs
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Fri 02 Feb 2007 06:33 PM EST
 I monitor the NPtech del.icio.us tagstream with avid interest, and notice that there are now several blogs devoted to harsh critiques of the nonprofit sector... more » |
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