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Dashboards are Dangerous

Heed this warning as you wrestle with data and strategies to incorporate it into your organization: dashboards are dangerous.  This sounds counter intuitive to many.  Dashboards evolved to sort through data for us.  In fact, people create dashboards to present concise...

Project Management Tips: Talking

Even with the best team and a sensible timeline, a project that lacks communication (or “talking” for the purposes of the three T’s) is bound to fail. Delivering the right message to the right people at the right time should be your mantra throughout your project....

More Cowbell – A 14NTC Recap

Whether it was chatting at our booth in the science fair (expo hall), watching various speakers kill it at their sessions or networking at the progressive parties, NTEN’s 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference was a great experience. My largest take away from this...

Project Management Tips: Timeline

In our first post on project management, we identified seven characteristics of a winning project team. Today, we’ll outline building a successful timeline. In any project, the timeline is both your best friend and biggest enemy as everyone tries to execute against...

Brave New World of Mobile Chat – Part 2

In the second part of our Mobile Chat series, Vince Malouf dives deeper into the emergence of mobile chat applications. If you thought Facebook’s $19 billion valuation of mobile chat app WhatsApp was shocking, you weren’t the only one. Over the past weeks, the...

Big Data: Hunters vs Pointers

Introduction Don’t join the increasing number of organizations making bad investments in analytics and big data. You must understand that more than just the availability and volume of data has changed. In fact, how we engage that data creates the greatest opportunity....