Jim O’Reilley and Birgit Pauli-Haack are responding to a common question, how can we build a collaboration tool and process using Google Drive and what features should we expect from it? Since this can be a critical topic in geographies like ours where Board Members may vacation in the North during the summer months, we […]
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Episode #16: The 2017 Nonprofit Technology Awards
In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss the recent nonprofit Technology awards of this Spring. Birgit is just back from the 2017 Nonprofit Technology conference where most of the mentioned awards were presented. She describes her experiences as Community Organizer for Techsoup and NTEN at the conference. The NTEN Award went to Emily […]
Episode #13: Donor Privacy and Stewardship
In this episode, we Birgit and Jim discuss the concept of Donor Stewardship and Donor Privacy. They begin with a statement that it is the obligation of a nonprofit organization to be the steward for their donors and the privacy of their data in which they are entrusted. The state that it is their belief […]
Episode #6: Online Fundraising Tips and Tools
In Episode #6 Birgit and Jim discuss Online Fundraising. Birgit begins by telling us about the most successful types of fundraising in 2015. She breaks it down into five different ways to raise funds. Jim then recommends some strategic questions nonprofit organizations should explore before they even think about software. Birgit then describes the history […]
Happy #PodcastDay – New NPTech Podcast available & more
Just in Time for International #PodcastDay, we released our first episodes of our new podcast. Your hosts are Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley. One of our prime objectives at NPTechProjects is to assist nonprofit organizations with 21st-century technology. If you are not sure what we mean by that, read on. If you are not using […]
Why IT Needs to be a Part of Your strategy
In order to appreciate the need for an IT Strategy, we need to first understand why we need an organization strategy, and then a little about what makes up a strategy for your not for profit organization. I recently read an article on NPEngage by Rose Gear about the basics for a strategy in a […]
16NTC Recap #1: Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers
On Thursday March 24, at 10:30am Elijah van der Giessen @elijah and I facilitated this session. The session’s hashtag is #16NTCCommbuild – you can follow up on it via Twitter: Session Description: Are you a community manager or builder? Let’s get together to share tips, gossip, and best practices. It doesn’t matter if your focus […]
How to plan a redesign of your website?
You have been tasked to spearhead the project of redesigning your organization’s website. Where do you start and what do you do first? This was the topic of a discussion on NTEN’s Community of Practice “Managing Projects” last week, started by Rebecca Reyes CoP Members chimed in with excellent Web design planning resources: Jill Beasley, consulting […]