Nonprofit essentials : managing technology /: managing technology. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeannette Woodward.
• Other Names: Woodward, Jeannette A
• Contents: Preface -- Purpose -- Overview of content -- Technology brings change -- Audience -- Acknowledgements -- Getting started with technology -- Objectives -- The impact of computers -- Learning from the business world -- Planning for technology -- Assigning responsibility for technology -- Technology planning takes time -- Performing a technology assessment -- To learn more about technology assessments -- Exhibit 1.1: taking a hardware and software inventory -- Focusing on individuals -- Identifying talented members -- Matching personalities with responsibilities -- Exhibit 1.2: policies governing volunteers -- Assessing current computer use -- Where do you begin? -- Tips and techniques: barriers to effective use of technology -- Choosing your first technology project -- In the real world: starting small -- Measuring results -- Comparing alternate projects -- Analyzing the cost of the database project -- Analyzing the cost of the presentation project -- Additional costs -- Identifying the benefits of the database project -- Identifying the benefits of presentation support -- Tips and techniques: making technology part of the project -- Creating a written technology plan -- Exhibit 1.3: why do you need a technology plan? -- Looking ahead to the future -- Tips and techniques: five keys to a successful technology program -- Developing technology leadership -- Discovering community leadership resources -- Educational opportunities for leaders -- To learn more about online resources for board members -- Exhibit 1.4: characteristics of a good technology plan -- Identifying training needs -- Planning an effective training program -- Tips and techniques: getting help for technology planning -- The nuts and bolts of technology -- Establishing hardware and software standards -- Try before you buy -- Donations of new hardware and software -- Tips and techniques: implementing your technology plan -- Summing it up -- Technology planning for the small organization -- Objectives -- A tale of two nonprofits -- Where does one begin? -- How can technology work for you? -- Taking the first steps -- Step 1: decide who will do the planning -- Step 2: obtain official nonprofit status -- Step 3: decide on two or three small but significant projects -- Exhibit 2.1: e-mail: the most valuable computer application -- Step 4: establish an annual budget -- Step 5: identify additional sources of funding -- To learn more about online opportunities for grant seekers -- Step 6: take stock of what you have -- Step 7: decide on minimum hardware requirements -- To learn more about technology for nonprofits -- Step 8: decide how computers will communicate with one another -- Exhibit 2.2: networking basics -- Step 9: decide how your computer system will access the internet -- Tips and techniques: opportunities for nonprofits on the -- World wide web -- Step 10: how will you choose and control software? -- Exhibit 2.3: choosing software -- Step 11: develop a strategy for attracting computer-literate -- Volunteers -- To learn more about recruiting teen volunteers -- Step 12: plan a computer training program -- Step 13: decide on the role that personally-owned computers will play -- Step 14: how will the organization's computers be protected? -- Step 15: decide how and when progress will be evaluated and the -- Plan will be updated -- Putting it in writing -- Summing it up.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.068; Office practice -- Automation; Nonprofit organizations -- Management; Information technology -- Management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119260738
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