Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT. They describe it as:

Green IT for Dummies … is intended to give organizations simple and straight-forward ideas on how to reduce the environmental impact of IT systems and harness the power of IT to reduce the wider environmental impacts of climate change in society.
The [...]

Tags: IT Management

Today was the second session of my 2-part workshop for consultants and wanna-be consultants.  Jana Byington-Smith blogged it again, and here’s what she recorded.  We started by listing everyone’s burning issues, then discussed as many as we could in-depth.

Presenters:
Robert L. Weiner
John Kenyon, John Kenyon Technology Consulting
Michael Stein, Michael Stein, Inc.
Eric Leland, Five Paths
Michelle Murrain, Open [...]

Tags: Consulting, NTEN

I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Jana Byington-Smith did a great job of capturing the discussion for the conference’s live blog. I’m reposting her summary below. The list of links she mentions is at http://www.rlweiner.com/nten/consultant_resources.pdf

You can read all of the conference blogs [...]

Tags: Consulting, NTEN

Our friends at Idealware and NTEN have released their Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems. The guide presents detailed comparisons of 33 donor databases that cost less than $4,250 in the first year. It includes a high-level overview of common features, comparisons and summaries of the systems they reviewed, recommendations for which systems [...]

Tags: Donor Databases

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Avast! — Free anti-virus for home use: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks [...]

Tags: Software

Well, maybe it doesn’t exactly suck, but potential donors can’t figure it out. In a recent study of nonprofit Web sites, usability guru Jakob Nielsen asked participants "what information they want to see on nonprofit Web sites before they decide whether to donate?" The most heavily requested information was:
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Tags: Online Fundraising, Web

Robin Broitman of the Interactive Insights Group has created an extensive list of tools for searching the social Web. She calls it a "comprehensive guide to a wide range of resources, Web sites, services, and advice that will help you find, filter, and monitor the information you need more effectively."
The categories include:
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Tags: Social Media, Web 2.0

Several friends who have decided to explore WordPress have asked how I built my site. Here are the steps I went through:
1) I hired a designer, Robyn Smith (http://dubbahdesign.com/). Robyn installed WP on my existing web host (dotable.com). Fortunately, they offered support for WP, since I was paid up for the [...]

Tags: Add new tag, Web, Wordpress