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The last few years of technological change have brought nonprofit leaders enormous opportunities and challenges and that pace of change shows no sign of slowing. The potential to make the same mistakes over and over continues to be an issue for many organizations. Nonprofit leaders rarely have the time for conferences or workshops outside their issue areas. These seminars on Nonprofits & Technology will provide you with solid tools and guidelines targeted at your role as a decision maker.
 

Nonprofit Managers are hired for their leadership and management skills, and possibly their knowledge of their communities of practice and domain expertise. But unless new technology is central to your organization's mission, you're unlikely to have been hired for your technological know how. This seminar will cover:

• requirements Documents: what they are, how to use them, how to get one written
• prevent the worst and bring out the best: the care and feeding of technology staff
• how new technology should and shouldn't affect the assignment of responsibilities
• things you don't want to know: Deliberate ignorance as a strength

This seminar is right for you if you are responsible for budget and staffing of a division or organization, if you are ultimately responsible for the outcomes of programs that involve new technology, but are not a technologist by training.
 

The new technologies that have most affected the work of nonprofits in the last decade are primarily information and communication systems and networks. This has brought two sets of professionals into day to day contact: the technology staff who are implementing new tools and systems and the professional staff who are responsible for the communication that is the lifeblood of an organization. This seminar will cover:

• communication Centered Technology Planning: what it is, why it matters, and how it works
• common conflicts: how to prevent them or turn them into opportunities
• how to structure decisions for maximum cooperation

This seminar is right for you if you've ever had to deal with conflicts between technology staff and other parts of your organization, if you think there are untapped synergies among your staff, or if you want to learn more about how to focus your technology on the communication needs of your organization.
 

New technologies can have profound impacts on your organization, sometimes leading to major changes and disruptions. At the same time, good leaders are struggling to make sure that the strengths of their organizations are preserved or, preferably, enhanced, through the use of new technology. This seminar will cover:

• how to smooth the path of adoption of new technologies
• how to identify and leverage the strengths of the organization in new tools
• the myth of technophobia and the opportunities of resistance to change

This seminar is right for you if you have been frustrated either by the resistance to adoption of new technologies or the belligerence of technology advocates, or if you have a vision of a more effective organization and you want technology to play a role in getting there.