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 … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
So You Want to Be a Consultant? Part II
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 … [Read more...]
So You Want to Be a Consultant?
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 … [Read more...]
Favorite Free Software
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: … [Read more...]
Jakob Nielsen Thinks Your Web Site Sucks
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 … [Read more...]
How To Search the Social Web: The Ultimate Toolkit
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 … [Read more...]
Anatomy of My Web Site
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 … [Read more...]