Tech Tips
Training Your Staff on New Tools
While using outdated technology or tools that no longer meet your needs is a bad idea, many organizations don’t think about the training needed when new tools are brought in. While many people are comfortable with the basics of business technology, like using email, IM, or various productivity tools, it would be a mistake to… Read More
Backups and Data Retention, Tech Tips
Choosing the Right Backup Option for Your Business
Everyone has experienced writing a report, spending several hours on it, and then closing out or suffering a crash before saving your work. When this happened to you, you probably experienced an overwhelming sense of dread. Would you have time to re-type the whole report? Would you remember what you had already written? Afterward, you… Read More
Backups and Data Retention, Tech Tips
The Basics of Data Retention
A data retention policy is an organization’s formal guideline regarding data storage and removal. Setting up a data retention policy helps ensure your organization follows all regulations surrounding personal and business data and helps manage legal risk in the event of loss or a data breach. Read More. Read More
Tech Tips
What’s a CRM and How Do You Pick the Right One?
Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs) are software tools which allow organizations to track potential sales and manage customer information. Although your nonprofit probably doesn’t sell anything or have traditional customers, a CRM can still help you manage donations and member information. By using a CRM you can keep all your data in one place, run… Read More
Tech Tips
Ten Tools to Encourage Collaboration
Deciding which tools are worth your time (and money) can be difficult. There are thousands of cloud tools to help your team work better and they all have pros and cons which make them worth considering. There are also tons of functions to consider like file sharing, communication, design, and data management, that it can… Read More
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How Technology is Changing the Way We Work in Teams
Chances are your organization works primarily on laptops and other mobile devices, making it easier to implement flexible work from home schedules or even have full-time staff who operate remotely. This idea might make you nervous. How do you know that people are actually working when they aren’t in the same office as everyone else?… Read More
Environmental Initiatives, Tech Tips
Green Tech Practices for Every Office
It can be difficult in our day-to-day lives to practice sustainability. Even the small, personal things like remembering which plastic grades can be recycled and which can’t, forgetting to bring your reusable bags to the grocery store, or drinking iced drinks on the go with plastic straws can make it feel like going green is… Read More
Tech Tips
10 Trending Tech Products and Gifts For Office or Personal Use
It’s officially the season of giving and there might be some technology products you have on your wish list, whether for your workplace or yourself. Nonprofits plan to spend their technology budgets, but there might be some money left over from projects that you didn’t have time to complete this past year. If you currently… Read More
Tech Tips
Demystifying the 5 Phases of Project Management
Project management is so much more than staying on top of deadlines and team members. It’s a complex process that goes a lot deeper than surface planning and it’s applicable to every industry in order to achieve business goals. Each of the phases of project management serve a purpose, whether you’re launching a new fundraising… Read More
Tech Tips
Network Failures: 10 Ways You Can Avoid Mishaps and Manage Risk
By Eric Harris, IT Director, Tech Networks of Boston The network is down! These four words can set off panic attacks in the workplace. Workers and managers stress about missed deadlines, and IT leaders scramble to figure out the problem and fix it. Network failures do happen. But they don’t have to be regular… Read More
We’ve created an infographic on the current state of the nonprofit cloud:
