Lisa Colton's presentation to synagogues within the UJA Federation of New York catchment area on accidental techies and maturing your staffing for success in the connected age.
The document discusses the role of "accidental techies" in non-profit organizations and how staffing models need to evolve. It defines an accidental techie as someone who takes on IT responsibilities without formal training. While accidental techies play an important role, organizations need to consider how to adjust job descriptions and provide training to shift roles towards community management, social media, and network weaving as digital needs change. Staffing needs to go beyond just technology to help organizations successfully adapt for the digital age.
Enterprise social what is the real value to the business - sps boston - jun...Ruven Gotz
SharePoint Saturday Boston - Presentation on understanding Enterprise Social tools and Yammer and a couple of aspects that can bring value to the business.
Collaboration and enterprise social tools-SharePointAlooza - 2015Ruven Gotz
This document discusses collaboration tools and enterprise social tools. It defines enterprise social tools as those that bring dispersed workers together virtually to build ongoing conversations around common goals. Examples discussed include Yammer and how it differs from Facebook. The value of enterprise social is described as rapid access to information and knowledge from colleagues. Governance and planning are recommended to ensure enterprise social tools achieve business goals and outcomes. Integration of tools like Yammer with SharePoint is seen as providing enhanced collaboration capabilities.
Lead by Letting Go: Creating a Mosaic of EducationTerri Griffith
Slides from my presentation at the 2014 Mazatlan Forum:
“Technology and the Future(s) of Education: U.S. and Mexican Perspectives.” I believe we need a mosaic of education: A situation where our best material is available when the student and their organization needs it.
Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communitiesAmy Sample Ward
This presentation was prepared for the Connected Generation conference on May 7, 2010, in Bristol, England. You can find details about the event at: http://connectedgeneration10.eventbrite.com/
Find more at http://amysampleward.org
Visual tools and innovation games - Half-day workshop - SPFest DC - April 2015Ruven Gotz
Getting all stakeholders on the same page is a crucial element to a successful project. In this workshop we cover techniques for eliciting stakeholder goals and pain points, and how to capture and share requirements in visual ways that short circuit and accelerate the usual process.
The document discusses the role of "accidental techies" in non-profit organizations and how staffing models need to evolve. It defines an accidental techie as someone who takes on IT responsibilities without formal training. While accidental techies play an important role, organizations need to consider how to adjust job descriptions and provide training to shift roles towards community management, social media, and network weaving as digital needs change. Staffing needs to go beyond just technology to help organizations successfully adapt for the digital age.
Enterprise social what is the real value to the business - sps boston - jun...Ruven Gotz
SharePoint Saturday Boston - Presentation on understanding Enterprise Social tools and Yammer and a couple of aspects that can bring value to the business.
Collaboration and enterprise social tools-SharePointAlooza - 2015Ruven Gotz
This document discusses collaboration tools and enterprise social tools. It defines enterprise social tools as those that bring dispersed workers together virtually to build ongoing conversations around common goals. Examples discussed include Yammer and how it differs from Facebook. The value of enterprise social is described as rapid access to information and knowledge from colleagues. Governance and planning are recommended to ensure enterprise social tools achieve business goals and outcomes. Integration of tools like Yammer with SharePoint is seen as providing enhanced collaboration capabilities.
Lead by Letting Go: Creating a Mosaic of EducationTerri Griffith
Slides from my presentation at the 2014 Mazatlan Forum:
“Technology and the Future(s) of Education: U.S. and Mexican Perspectives.” I believe we need a mosaic of education: A situation where our best material is available when the student and their organization needs it.
Connecting to Youth: Leveraging social media for work with young communitiesAmy Sample Ward
This presentation was prepared for the Connected Generation conference on May 7, 2010, in Bristol, England. You can find details about the event at: http://connectedgeneration10.eventbrite.com/
Find more at http://amysampleward.org
Visual tools and innovation games - Half-day workshop - SPFest DC - April 2015Ruven Gotz
Getting all stakeholders on the same page is a crucial element to a successful project. In this workshop we cover techniques for eliciting stakeholder goals and pain points, and how to capture and share requirements in visual ways that short circuit and accelerate the usual process.
Mel Fuller - Founder of three farm and Makers PlaceMelissa Fuller
On Thursday 6th May 2015 i gave a short presentation to librarians from all over NSW about Makerspace and culture. I shared my story and lessons learnt from a recent research trip of America.
Using Online Technologies in Post Secondary Education to ThriveKemp Edmonds
New online communication technologies are enabling students to thrive in post-secondary education, whether attending classes remotely or on campus. These technologies empower students and educators by facilitating interactions that were previously only possible in person, but adopting new technologies also requires changing habits and opening channels of communication. The document explores examples of technologies like Skype that allow remote participation, as well as emerging technologies like wearables and brain-computer interfaces, and discusses both the opportunities and challenges of incorporating new technologies into education.
Part of Kellogg GMS Allen Center program on Leading into the Future http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/programs/century.aspx. Section on Demands on 21st Century organizations
Why we all need women in tech. Despite of presence and contribution women has made in the industry, the numbers are staggering. This presentation by Vinita Rathi, Director Women Who Code London Chapter, Co-Founder Systango & CodePunt at Digibury Weekender talks about contribution gender diversity can make to the growth of the organisation, how and what women are good at, how motherhood can be boon for the firms they are working at and what can we be done to change.
Creating A Connected Organization for the 21st Century: The Future of Work on...Ayelet Baron
The document outlines Ayelet Baron's vision for creating a connected organization for the 21st century. It begins by imagining what such an organization could look like if everyone had the same vision of the future and translated it to their daily work. It then discusses the need for organizations to embrace constant change, build a culture of experimentation, and develop a connected, networked structure. The document argues that truly changing organizational culture requires leadership engagement, skills development, and embedding new practices and values into the organizational DNA. It promotes fostering open relationships, trust, and dialogue among employees, customers, partners and other stakeholders to build the connectivity required for success in today's world.
This document discusses proposals for restructuring the leadership and governance of the Joomla open source community. It advocates for a more decentralized structure with multiple working groups and leadership teams, and a unified leadership team to coordinate across groups. This proposed structure aims to be more open, accountable, empowering and bottom-up while maintaining sustainability and volunteer participation. Effective structures are described as triangles with varying steepness of levels depending on participants' skills to perform their roles. Change management is also discussed as important but difficult for large-scale reforms, requiring significant effort to try and meet goals.
Experts can leverage their knowledge online to boost their sales and build businesses. The document discusses how experts can share their expertise through online lectures, social media, and dedicated websites to monetize their knowledge and skills. It also notes that the best knowledge will increasingly come from the internet over the next five years according to experts like Fred Wilson and Bill Gates.
Digital innovation and the future of people and organisationsME+
Technology has increased mobility and connectivity and is transforming the way we work. Most of today's organisational systems and process to manage talent are failing to actually stimulate learning and growth and close capability gaps; a radical overhaul is needed. Moving to an individually self-managed approach will release huge latent potential within organisations and help individuals grow and fulfil their ambitions.
ME+ will enable these changes.
Keynote presentation by Nigel Borowski at the 4th annual HR Transformation, Talent & Employee Engagement Forum in Zurich, on the 6th November 2014.
The document discusses networking strategies for career success. It provides tips for effective networking, including setting goals, preparing an elevator speech, building relationships, and following up. An effective elevator speech introduces yourself, communicates the problem you solve, shares your unique value, and provides proof of success. Building strong relationships through frequent contact, acting as a resource, and listening is key to leveraging networks throughout one's career. Demonstrating professionalism, organization, consistency and making a positive first impression are also emphasized as important for networking success.
So, you say you want your customers to have an exceptional experience with your brand? Are you willing to pay the price? For a lot of organizations the answer is no. Despite all we talk about customer experience, we still want to keep the same work experience for ourselves. That means hoarding customer information and data in business silos in order to compete with neighboring business units; thinking about content as “our” content and “their” content. And, shamelessly participating in power struggles between Marketing, IT, and business units. Power struggles that manifest on websites and other digital channels as a disintegrated customer experience.
In truth, you haven’t made the decision to change the way you do business internally, so your customers take the hit. Silo’d and debating business factions lead to a silo’d disintegrated experience. That’s probably not good for the bottom line either. You can change. And, it’s not as hard as you think.
Lisa Welchman describes how to enhance teamwork around digital channels through effective governance, and discusses the collaboration challenges inherent in creating an effective online presence.
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
Learning Outcome: Examine how a healthy lifestyle can benefit you and your workplace environment
In today’s workforce, organizations will eventually have to deal with an employee who may not be able to return to work after an extended leave of absence due to a serious medical condition. To help avoid this possibility, it is more critical than ever that employees focus their attention on eating healthier and exercising. Learn how to protect yourself from the hazards of unhealthy choices by outlining your strategy for developing and implementing healthier lifestyle habits.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
1. Understand organizational policies for leave.
2. Identify the insurance of healthy lifestyle behaviors.
3. Examine the steps necessary to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
How do you foster communication and collaboration when project members are geographically dispersed? An effective starting point is the creation of a team operating agreement.
This document outlines Dave Weinberg's vision for using social media advocacy effectively. It discusses that a vision needs a roadmap, goals, and stakeholders. Passion is also important to find successes and enable others. Various social media tools are described as being one-to-many or one-to-one in messaging and relationship building. Developing relationships is key, like participating in early adopter groups. Case studies show how viral messages or fundraising can succeed. An overall strategy is advised to engage networks and track engagement.
Delivered to the Society of Information Managers all in charge of leading in today's digital age- Presentation explores methodologies and concepts for leading in an age of screens, social media, and virtual work.
Implementing Technology in the AEC IndustryKris Lengieza
Join Kris Lengieza of Stiles Construction and Nathan Wood of SpectrumAEC for our presentation as we explore a best in practice approach to implementing new Technology such as Procore by focusing on People, Process and Technology.
URJ Social Media Boot Camp: Facebook 101Lisa Colton
This document provides an overview of a social media boot camp presented by Lisa Colton of Darim Online. The boot camp will cover 12 webinar topics on using Facebook, including profiles, pages, groups, newsfeeds, algorithms, and tagging. It will also include open office hours and sharefests for networking. The agenda for this session focuses on these key Facebook features and how to use them to strengthen relationships both within and between communities on Facebook. Bonding and bridging social capital are discussed as important goals.
This document discusses how social media like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs can be used to build communities. It explains that social media allows for participatory and democratic communication that is conversational and helps form connected communities around shared interests. Traditional media focuses on one-way communication from brands while social media puts the audience in control and facilitates two-way conversations and learning. The document also discusses how to cultivate a sense of community and the importance of shared goals, listening, transparency and knowing your audience when promoting community through social media.
URJ Social Media Boot Camp: Twitter 101Lisa Colton
This document provides an overview of how to use Twitter effectively. It discusses establishing an account, deciding between a personal or brand profile, building a community by following relevant accounts, using hashtags and retweets, listening to mentions, adding value through helpful content, finding your voice, and key elements for success like being social and a good listener. The goal is to empower organizations to engage audiences and promote their work through Twitter.
This document discusses how Jewish educators can adapt to operating in an "attention economy" and networked world. It emphasizes that in this new environment:
1) Relationships are paramount, and educators must build and leverage relationships to achieve their goals.
2) Information is ubiquitous, so educators must help students evaluate information and use it to further Jewish educational goals.
3) Educators need to understand their audience deeply and provide broader value in order to gain people's attention, as attention is a limited resource. They are encouraged to meet people where they are rather than expecting people to come to them.
Facebook: Connecting with Constituents, Creating CommunityLisa Colton
This document provides an overview of using Facebook to connect with constituents. It discusses using Facebook Pages rather than Groups to engage in mass outreach. The key recommendations are to post engaging content regularly, promote the page on your own website and through paid ads, and use Facebook Insights to track engagement and adapt strategies over time. The main dos are posting quality content and engaging with fans, while the don'ts are being boring, posting too often, and asking for things too frequently without providing value first.
Mel Fuller - Founder of three farm and Makers PlaceMelissa Fuller
On Thursday 6th May 2015 i gave a short presentation to librarians from all over NSW about Makerspace and culture. I shared my story and lessons learnt from a recent research trip of America.
Using Online Technologies in Post Secondary Education to ThriveKemp Edmonds
New online communication technologies are enabling students to thrive in post-secondary education, whether attending classes remotely or on campus. These technologies empower students and educators by facilitating interactions that were previously only possible in person, but adopting new technologies also requires changing habits and opening channels of communication. The document explores examples of technologies like Skype that allow remote participation, as well as emerging technologies like wearables and brain-computer interfaces, and discusses both the opportunities and challenges of incorporating new technologies into education.
Part of Kellogg GMS Allen Center program on Leading into the Future http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/programs/century.aspx. Section on Demands on 21st Century organizations
Why we all need women in tech. Despite of presence and contribution women has made in the industry, the numbers are staggering. This presentation by Vinita Rathi, Director Women Who Code London Chapter, Co-Founder Systango & CodePunt at Digibury Weekender talks about contribution gender diversity can make to the growth of the organisation, how and what women are good at, how motherhood can be boon for the firms they are working at and what can we be done to change.
Creating A Connected Organization for the 21st Century: The Future of Work on...Ayelet Baron
The document outlines Ayelet Baron's vision for creating a connected organization for the 21st century. It begins by imagining what such an organization could look like if everyone had the same vision of the future and translated it to their daily work. It then discusses the need for organizations to embrace constant change, build a culture of experimentation, and develop a connected, networked structure. The document argues that truly changing organizational culture requires leadership engagement, skills development, and embedding new practices and values into the organizational DNA. It promotes fostering open relationships, trust, and dialogue among employees, customers, partners and other stakeholders to build the connectivity required for success in today's world.
This document discusses proposals for restructuring the leadership and governance of the Joomla open source community. It advocates for a more decentralized structure with multiple working groups and leadership teams, and a unified leadership team to coordinate across groups. This proposed structure aims to be more open, accountable, empowering and bottom-up while maintaining sustainability and volunteer participation. Effective structures are described as triangles with varying steepness of levels depending on participants' skills to perform their roles. Change management is also discussed as important but difficult for large-scale reforms, requiring significant effort to try and meet goals.
Experts can leverage their knowledge online to boost their sales and build businesses. The document discusses how experts can share their expertise through online lectures, social media, and dedicated websites to monetize their knowledge and skills. It also notes that the best knowledge will increasingly come from the internet over the next five years according to experts like Fred Wilson and Bill Gates.
Digital innovation and the future of people and organisationsME+
Technology has increased mobility and connectivity and is transforming the way we work. Most of today's organisational systems and process to manage talent are failing to actually stimulate learning and growth and close capability gaps; a radical overhaul is needed. Moving to an individually self-managed approach will release huge latent potential within organisations and help individuals grow and fulfil their ambitions.
ME+ will enable these changes.
Keynote presentation by Nigel Borowski at the 4th annual HR Transformation, Talent & Employee Engagement Forum in Zurich, on the 6th November 2014.
The document discusses networking strategies for career success. It provides tips for effective networking, including setting goals, preparing an elevator speech, building relationships, and following up. An effective elevator speech introduces yourself, communicates the problem you solve, shares your unique value, and provides proof of success. Building strong relationships through frequent contact, acting as a resource, and listening is key to leveraging networks throughout one's career. Demonstrating professionalism, organization, consistency and making a positive first impression are also emphasized as important for networking success.
So, you say you want your customers to have an exceptional experience with your brand? Are you willing to pay the price? For a lot of organizations the answer is no. Despite all we talk about customer experience, we still want to keep the same work experience for ourselves. That means hoarding customer information and data in business silos in order to compete with neighboring business units; thinking about content as “our” content and “their” content. And, shamelessly participating in power struggles between Marketing, IT, and business units. Power struggles that manifest on websites and other digital channels as a disintegrated customer experience.
In truth, you haven’t made the decision to change the way you do business internally, so your customers take the hit. Silo’d and debating business factions lead to a silo’d disintegrated experience. That’s probably not good for the bottom line either. You can change. And, it’s not as hard as you think.
Lisa Welchman describes how to enhance teamwork around digital channels through effective governance, and discusses the collaboration challenges inherent in creating an effective online presence.
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 2, 2015.
Learning Outcome: Examine how a healthy lifestyle can benefit you and your workplace environment
In today’s workforce, organizations will eventually have to deal with an employee who may not be able to return to work after an extended leave of absence due to a serious medical condition. To help avoid this possibility, it is more critical than ever that employees focus their attention on eating healthier and exercising. Learn how to protect yourself from the hazards of unhealthy choices by outlining your strategy for developing and implementing healthier lifestyle habits.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
1. Understand organizational policies for leave.
2. Identify the insurance of healthy lifestyle behaviors.
3. Examine the steps necessary to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
How do you foster communication and collaboration when project members are geographically dispersed? An effective starting point is the creation of a team operating agreement.
This document outlines Dave Weinberg's vision for using social media advocacy effectively. It discusses that a vision needs a roadmap, goals, and stakeholders. Passion is also important to find successes and enable others. Various social media tools are described as being one-to-many or one-to-one in messaging and relationship building. Developing relationships is key, like participating in early adopter groups. Case studies show how viral messages or fundraising can succeed. An overall strategy is advised to engage networks and track engagement.
Delivered to the Society of Information Managers all in charge of leading in today's digital age- Presentation explores methodologies and concepts for leading in an age of screens, social media, and virtual work.
Implementing Technology in the AEC IndustryKris Lengieza
Join Kris Lengieza of Stiles Construction and Nathan Wood of SpectrumAEC for our presentation as we explore a best in practice approach to implementing new Technology such as Procore by focusing on People, Process and Technology.
URJ Social Media Boot Camp: Facebook 101Lisa Colton
This document provides an overview of a social media boot camp presented by Lisa Colton of Darim Online. The boot camp will cover 12 webinar topics on using Facebook, including profiles, pages, groups, newsfeeds, algorithms, and tagging. It will also include open office hours and sharefests for networking. The agenda for this session focuses on these key Facebook features and how to use them to strengthen relationships both within and between communities on Facebook. Bonding and bridging social capital are discussed as important goals.
This document discusses how social media like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs can be used to build communities. It explains that social media allows for participatory and democratic communication that is conversational and helps form connected communities around shared interests. Traditional media focuses on one-way communication from brands while social media puts the audience in control and facilitates two-way conversations and learning. The document also discusses how to cultivate a sense of community and the importance of shared goals, listening, transparency and knowing your audience when promoting community through social media.
URJ Social Media Boot Camp: Twitter 101Lisa Colton
This document provides an overview of how to use Twitter effectively. It discusses establishing an account, deciding between a personal or brand profile, building a community by following relevant accounts, using hashtags and retweets, listening to mentions, adding value through helpful content, finding your voice, and key elements for success like being social and a good listener. The goal is to empower organizations to engage audiences and promote their work through Twitter.
This document discusses how Jewish educators can adapt to operating in an "attention economy" and networked world. It emphasizes that in this new environment:
1) Relationships are paramount, and educators must build and leverage relationships to achieve their goals.
2) Information is ubiquitous, so educators must help students evaluate information and use it to further Jewish educational goals.
3) Educators need to understand their audience deeply and provide broader value in order to gain people's attention, as attention is a limited resource. They are encouraged to meet people where they are rather than expecting people to come to them.
Facebook: Connecting with Constituents, Creating CommunityLisa Colton
This document provides an overview of using Facebook to connect with constituents. It discusses using Facebook Pages rather than Groups to engage in mass outreach. The key recommendations are to post engaging content regularly, promote the page on your own website and through paid ads, and use Facebook Insights to track engagement and adapt strategies over time. The main dos are posting quality content and engaging with fans, while the don'ts are being boring, posting too often, and asking for things too frequently without providing value first.
URJ Social Media Boot Camp: Foundations of Social MediaLisa Colton
The document summarizes key points about using social media for reform Jewish congregations. It discusses how social media has changed communication by becoming more participatory, open, conversational and communal. It emphasizes adding value through newsworthy, useful content and developing networks. It also notes how social media has shifted power dynamics by allowing unofficial groups to form and how organizations must be nimble to keep pace with constant technological changes. The focus is on understanding audiences and developing strategies to meet objectives rather than just using technologies for their own sake.
The document discusses the changing demographics of Jewish families and how this impacts the marketplace for Jewish education. It describes the characteristics of different generations including Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials. Key differences noted among these groups include higher rates of intermarriage, dual working parents, and more geographic mobility. The document concludes that these fundamental shifts in the makeup of Jewish families require an overhaul of the industry of Jewish education to adapt to this empowered and diverse customer base.
This document provides an introduction to social media tools and their implications for Jewish day schools. It outlines the workshop goals of making participants comfortable and confident with social media terminology and learning from each other. It discusses concepts like ambient awareness and digital intimacy from connecting on social networks. It demonstrates how to set up profiles, pages and groups on Facebook to engage audiences and get user generated content. It promotes identifying audience objectives and a strategic plan for using appropriate technologies to achieve goals.
This document summarizes a presentation for Jewish educators on using social media. It discusses how educators are often responsible for an organization's technology without a technical background. It encourages educators to see the value their knowledge brings and influence organizations positively. Barriers to technology evolution like steep learning curves and risk are addressed. Educators are told to focus on their mission, learn constantly, and view change as less risky than stagnation. New rules of digital attention and authentic engagement are outlined. Educators are advised to get stakeholders aligned on goals and measurements to move organizations forward successfully in the digital age.
This document summarizes a presentation on practical tips for organizational leaders to transform their organizations through digital technology. The presentation covered defining "digital" broadly to include processes, infrastructure, culture, funding, skills and more. It emphasized putting technology at the heart of the organizational mission to improve services. Developing a culture of experimentation through rapid, iterative projects was also recommended. Finally, it discussed supporting staff to achieve the organizational mission through digital.
Office Of Partnerships And Grants Development. 6.11.08Jocelyn Harmon
The document discusses technology tools that can help nonprofits succeed. It describes NPower Greater DC Region, a nonprofit technology consulting firm that provides services like technology assessments and online IT support to other nonprofits. It notes that many nonprofits struggle with recruiting IT staff and having technology capacity. The rest of the document outlines specific tools that nonprofits can use for communication, collaboration, tracking stakeholders, receiving donations, and more. These include websites, databases, blogs, video, social networking sites, and tools from organizations like Idealware, NTEN, TechSoup, and Google for Nonprofits.
Featured Session: Voices Live Chicago Conference
Location: Aon
200 East Randolph
Chicago, IL USA
12-2pm CST
Panel: Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Growing Female Technology Professionals
Will be streamed on Spreecast and WebEx from 12-2pm CST on Friday, March 13th
Moderators:
Margaret Resce Milkint, Managing Partner, The Jacobson Group; WING Co-Founder; ITF Board Member
David Mendelsohn, Managing Partner, DLA Piper; WING Co-Founder
Panelists:
Danelle Kent, Consultant¸ SWC Technology Partners
Danelle is a Certified Project Management Professional (NU) with 4+ years of combined experience in detail oriented technical writing and quality assurance analysis. She currently supports full software lifecycle by facilitating different functional roles including quality assurance analyst, business analyst, and technical writer.
Arti Arora, Aon
Deanne Hettich, Vice President Practice Leadership, Aon Hewitt
Cynthia Clarke, CIO, Mesirow Financial
Jeff Hughes, Vice President Information Technology, CNA
Marisa Cabrera, IT Rotational Program Participant, CNA
Abstract: Despite the strides made recently for women in business, female tech professionals continue to be outpaced by their male counterparts. According to Silicon Valley Bank’s Innovation Economy Outlook survey, less than 50 percent of technology companies have women in the C-suite or serving on the board of directors. Only 19 percent of CIO positions for Fortune 250 companies are held by women.
In fact, the gender disparity among technology professionals seems to be increasing in spite of recent gains throughout the workplace. Fewer women are joining the tech workforce and the numbers of female students studying technology is in decline—today only 18 percent of computer science majors are women, compared to 37 percent in the mid-1980s. Add in a continued wage imbalance and a high turnover rate for female tech professionals mid-career and it is clear that there is work to be done. How can we encourage more women to join the technology field and insurance technology in particular? What can be done to break down the barriers to success as a female technology professional?
The document discusses strategies for developing a digital strategy that puts people at the center. It advocates understanding people and their needs, rather than focusing on technology alone. The document recommends a three part approach: 1) Really understanding people through stakeholder interviews; 2) Understanding how technology impacts users and what needs it fills; 3) Identifying how changes impact one's business in terms of opportunities, products, processes and communications. The overall message is that digital strategy should meet evolving user expectations by applying principles of user-centricity, agility, and empathy.
WIT Network 5 Steps to Empower Your Diverse Leadership SkillsKaruana Gatimu
The WIT Network aims to increase the percentage of women working in technology through supporting women entering, working in, or advancing their careers in the tech industry. The meeting agenda includes an announcement session and a presentation from Karuana Gatimu on empowering diverse leadership skills. Gatimu discusses how diversity, inclusion and belonging are about access to opportunities, resources, knowledge, relationships and inspiration. She provides strategies for developing self-awareness, crafting a personal brand, and taking action to promote diversity and inclusion.
Final capitalising on female strenghts in it Mia Horrigan
This document summarizes a presentation about capitalizing on female strengths in IT and business analysis roles. It identifies common female strengths such as communication, understanding users, empathy, and collaboration. It discusses 8 common female archetypes and how to leverage their strengths. It also discusses the presenter's experience transitioning from business to a career in business analysis and how mentors helped her develop technical skills. Finally, it argues that IT roles today focus more on skills like problem solving, collaboration, and understanding business needs rather than technical skills alone.
Why Developing Technology Skills is Essential for NonprofitsTechSoup
As the pace of change accelerates and technology continues to evolve, organizations across all industries are struggling to keep up — and the nonprofit sector is no exception. Technology skills are critical to building the solutions that solve the greatest challenges for nonprofits. But developing technology skills starts by creating a culture of lifelong learners. For enterprise organizations and nimble nonprofits alike, learning is an indispensable element of success.
Join us for this 60-minute webinar with Lindsey Kneuven, head of social impact of Pluralsight, who will cover how you can accelerate the ability to achieve your nonprofit’s mission and give your teams the opportunity to have more meaningful impact.
The document discusses the need for digital change and transformation in education organizations. Emerging technologies will be a catalyst for this change by supporting personalization, mobility, richer experiences and flexibility. Education must focus on delivering memorable experiences for students and differentiating its value. Organizations need to understand their digital maturity across organization, technology, engagement, and culture. A roadmap for transformation involves experiments, measuring traction, and evolving roles from crawl to fly. Driving change requires understanding one's purpose, cultivating curiosity, and leading rather than being driven by change.
How Network Orgs and Free Agents Are Reinvigorate Social ChangeJason Mogus
Network organizations are reinvigorating change organizing by embracing a more networked approach that is better suited to today's digital world. These "networked nonprofits" operate using a social, transparent, and simple model that centers people and relationships. They engage supporters in co-creating solutions through open sharing and collaboration beyond organizational walls. While this high engagement model maps well to web values, network organizations also face limitations in areas like long-term policy work that require institutional scale and expertise.
Network organizations are reinvigorating change organizing by embracing a more networked approach that is better suited to today's digital world. These "networked nonprofits" operate using a social, transparent, and simple model that centers people and relationships. They engage supporters in co-creating solutions through open sharing and collaboration beyond organizational walls. While this high engagement model maps well to web values, network organizations also face limitations in areas like long-term policy work that require institutional scale and expertise.
The Digital Talent Challenge - Building Winning Digital Teams Aaron Thomas
Presentation to Interactive Minds forum on the The Secrets of Winning Digital Teams. Key topics - Why building a winning digital team will be a critical key in organisational success, Provide insights on the key traits of successful digital teams, Provide ideas on how to build your digital career.
Campaign Accelerator: a new approach to campaign planning, inspired by Design...FairSay
The document introduces Campaign Accelerator, a program from Greenpeace's digital mobilization unit (MobLab) that aims to accelerate effective advocacy campaigns. It provides collaborative campaign planning tools to help organizations develop people-powered digital campaigns, with an emphasis on creative processes, design thinking, and building engagement. MobLab works with over 25 organizations and 3000 staff to research and share best practices in digital campaigning to enable impactful advocacy in today's world.
The document discusses how social technologies are changing business in the new world of work. It notes that every individual is now a business, decision making is distributed and faster, and companies are becoming more open. It encourages companies to engage professionals on LinkedIn by establishing groups, targeting relevant audiences, and providing valuable content like whitepapers and polls.
As millennials come of age in the workplace, getting them to stick around is becoming a concern. Elements of the employment deal like organizational culture, benefits and working conditions play a critical role in retaining top performers. During this spotlight webinar, millennial branding expert Dan Schawbel will uncover the elements that lead to a clash between generations and how employers can better leverage their programs to meet the needs of the young workers.
During this webinar attendees will hear:
How total rewards contribute to employee motivation
The key factors employees look for in positions and their connection to employee retention
Comparison of workforce generations and its impact on workforce planning
Enterprise social-what is the real value to the business - SPFest DC - April ...Ruven Gotz
Learn about real-world reasons to use Enterprise Social Tools like Yammer. This presentation is about how social tools can help to set the stage for Frictionless Collaboration.
SharePoint Saturday Toronto - Understanding the value of enterprise social - ...Ruven Gotz
1) Enterprise social tools allow dispersed work teams to stay connected and collaborate virtually through asynchronous and broadcast communication methods like Yammer and by working out loud.
2) Social tools improve knowledge management by enabling rapid access to expertise and information from coworkers through questions and sharing of resources, as opposed to traditional systems that are difficult to search.
3) While social tools can grow organically, planning and governance are important to achieve business goals and ensure rules and leadership guide appropriate use.
Technology in general -- and the internet and social media specifically -- have changed the way we work. And not just by shifting the mediums through which we communicate, but by changing the very nature of what we communicate. Technology is blurring the line between our personal and professional selves and changing our expectations of each other and our organizations.
Each nonprofit’s story is more than a mission statement, a website or an annual report. The story also includes the people inside and those on the front lines. It's how individuals represent the mission statement and organizational values that bring the vision to life online and out in the world. Blending individual and organizational stories is crucial to success in the digital age.
So, how can organizations and individuals work together to do this?
Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker of the Geek Girls Guide will speak about the intersection of technology and humanity, and the role of individuals in representing an organization.
An ability to work with AI assistants to augment our own
capabilities and help us focus on what really matters.
Lifelong learning: A mindset of continuous learning and development
throughout our careers and lives.
Maria Ruotolo at IBM shared her journey from traditional media into the digital media. Also included tips and resources to get more information on the how-tos.
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2. Agenda
• What is an accidental techie?
• What function do they serve?
• When do you outgrow it?
• How staffing models are shifting.
• Where is your need, and how to get there.
4. The Accidental Techie
“In the field of nonprofit technology, an
accidental techie is an individual who has
gravitated toward responsibility for an
organization's information technology
infrastructure, even though his or her
professional training or job description did
not include tasks of this kind.”
-Webster’s Online Dictionary
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6. How Accidental Techies Differ
Learning curve is too steep
– You love the challenge and want to learn!
Perceived risk is greater than potential reward
– You’re always trying new things, reflecting, evolving!
Don’t see how “rules of the game” are changing
– Evidence of “new rules” are in front of you daily!
Don’t extrapolate beyond the technology itself
– You know technology isn’t the magic bullet!