(ISF) FW: Nonprofit IT Staffing: Budgets, Salaries, Training and Planning

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From: NPT TechnoBuzz < newsletter%40nptimes.com">newsletternptimes.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Subject: Nonprofit IT Staffing: Budgets, Salaries, Training and Planning
To: Deborah Elizabeth Finn < deborah_elizabeth_finn%40post.harvard.edu">deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu>;

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March 11, 2008

In this issue:

Exclusive Research

NTEN And NPT Survey Shows Tech Budgets Average $40,658

Semi-Tech

Using technology for good, understanding its other implications

Making Your Code Uniform (Relatively)

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Exclusive Research

NTEN And NPT Survey Shows Tech Budgets Average $40,658

Staffing the information technology (IT) function is frequently a
challenge for nonprofit organizations. Financial resources are
typically limited and hiring managers often feel overwhelmed and
under-educated when it comes to IT. Determining where IT should fit
into the organization, how many IT staff people are needed and what
those people should be spending their time doing can be difficult
decisions.

To shed some light on these questions NTEN and The NonProfit Times
teamed up and created the Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey. We began this
effort with the 2006 survey? the first of its kind. We repeated the
survey in 2007, and plan to continue doing so annually, so that we can
provide a long term view of nonprofit IT staffing.

This report, the second on the findings, covers IT salaries, budgets
and evaluation in the nonprofit sector. The first report, published in
January of 2008, covered the nature of IT staffs and departments at
nonprofit organizations.

Click here for the full story:

http://ga0.org/ct/SdAxQ371SrSP/

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Semi-Tech

Using technology for good, understanding its other implications

By Tad Druart

There's no doubt that technology has changed our lives, sometimes for
the better, sometimes maybe not so much. And, it's this not so much
category for which technologists and nonprofit executives should be
prepared.

I get excited about how technology is making a practical impact today.
As director of corporate communications at Convio, I'm not a
technologist, so it is not the speeds and feeds that excite me.
Today's technology can spark the same fear as the printing press in
its early application. Many "in power"; were threatened by the ability
to spread information quickly and consistently, particularly if it was
contrary to their views. Others were concerned that unscrupulous
people would use it to "misinform" and cause anarchy.

Technology, or invention, is not good or bad by nature. As
professional communicators in the nonprofit sector we need to examine
the challenges that can exist when we develop strategies that leverage
technology.

Click here for the full story:

http://ga0.org/ct/S7AxQ371SrSQ/

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Making Your Code Uniform (Relatively)

To make your organization's simple HTML e-newsletter appear
(relatively) alike across platforms, one tip from the experts: code
like it?s 1999. This means:

1. Decide which email clients are a priority. One expert prioritizes
Outlook, Thunderbird, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, and recommends against
prioritizing Lotus unless your organization uses it ("It's a pain in
the neck to standardize."). Set up email accounts with each of the
email clients to test your email.

2. Also for seamlessness, use tables for layout, not cascading style
sheets, or CSS. Many email clients don't understand CSS.

3. Again, don't depend on CSS. Use inline styles. This means going
back to the old-school style of formatting: putting tags for color,
font, decoration, margins, etc., directly on links, paragraphs and
images. (Example: <a style=&quot;text-decoration:none; color:#00ff00;
font:Arial";>.) According to one expert, you can put styles into the
header, but make sure to define them in the body of the email as well.

4. Don't use Javascript, Flash, video or anything a 1999 Web browser
couldn't handle.

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