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SMinOrgs Founder Courtney Shelton Hunt has created a number of resources that address some of the connections between social media and the management of human capital in organizations. 

The Guide to Managing ICT in the Voluntary and Community Sector is produced by the ICT Hub to help voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) make best use of information communication technologies (ICTs).The guideis intended particularly for staff and volunteers from small and medium-sized organisations and especially for those people who don't

The article include 7 tips on how to choose donor-management software. The alternative is the cloud..The article suggests that there is one to fit any budget but the interaction values have to be individually determined. A willingness to adapt to the structure of good software is recommended over doing the way you always have.

Choosing software for donor management

Clearly, social media has emerged as a powerful mobilizing tool, particularly for issues like labor disputes, where political passions run high. Whichever side you're on, labor or management, experiences like the one the DSO and its musicians have faced for the past six months tell us that social media is here to stay and nonprofits have to understand how to manage - no, embrace - the now-dominant form of communication for more and more of their community members.

- "MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), one of the nation's top health care plans, today announced an expansion of their partnership to achieve an industry-leading capability to improve delivery of care to its Medicare Advantage members. The partnership centers around integrated quality outcomes, utilization improvement, financial performance, and business intelligence.  With a focus on highly coordinated analytics and interventions, BCBSM has partnered with MedAssurant to implement a suite of eight solutions spanning CMS 5 Star Complete Quality Management (CQM™), NCQA HEDIS management, Prospective Advantage™, Capitated Risk Adjustment (CARA™), Claims Aggregation Analysis and Submission (CAAS™), CareSync Advantage™, Business Intelligence, and Distributed Analytics™."

This article discusses how Buffalo City Mission, which helps with the needs of poor and homeless families is teaming up with SofTrek Corporation. SofTrek corporation helps many nonprofits by providing donor management software, online marketing and fundraising tools, business services, and technology solutions. It's great that there are corporations out there that work with nonprofits to help them achieve their mission.

This is the alternate approach to buying software for donor management which theoretically is the better approach after a non-profit reaches a certain size

Great article about the inside of working in a community management

It would be great if non-profits could get on board with something like this--with products pertaining to their services. Also if a project like this was successful with products, it would be great for a system to be created dealing with service projects.

3-part series providing an overview of options for hosting and managing nonprofit websites.

Great example of crowd-sourced question site to help answer a specific question about a CRM (client relationship management) solution for a small nonprofit.

This is a nice list of useful cutting edge mobile tools. Mobile web seems to have the most immediate impact potential in the sector for 2011. I personally like bump with lets you share contact lists instantly. There is so many new mobile applications coming out that you need to hunt.

Mobile is where all the growth is

This article is increasingly helpful for NPO's who are burdened by e mail. There are several strategies outlined which seek to make e mail a more organized, and, thus effective, tool.

If a nonprofit dabbles in web design this is more specific to design choice for the web creator but it was worth the inquiry for myself. Drupal has been proven to better the better choice for a larger organization that wants more features. Wordpress has held an advantage for the smaller startups for ease of use. There is a convergence between the two that is occurring but Drupal still maintains a lead. The problem with the more complex applications in a site is that it will require more maintenance which a very small nonprofit or company would seek to avoid. I generally consider it very difficult to maintain a mobile web solution and keep a good selection of applications running without some expert support. The old standard of a simple website appears to be waning quickly. The choice now appears to be how much work you want to pay your website manager to do rather than determining if you need one.

This article was good at showing the different ways blogging can inflict cost. You can choose the method which matches your flexibility to pay. $12000 annually will still be more than some can afford to pay. Carrying a full-time employee to manage the blog is the bulk of the cost so some may consider adding this as a responsibility to someone capable in the organization in the interim.

I like this article because it has applications to things like oil pipelines. Whenever I hear of a leak in a pipeline I wonder why technology fails to automate a relatively quick solution. If there is a proper array of monitoring devices responses can and should be automated to provide a rapid response beyond a simple call for help...

Using new technology poses problems for nonprofits such as limited budgets and financial restirictions. To help these nonprofits companies like JCA design and manage computer systems to help nonprofts become more efficient so they can accomplish their goals.

Labor Department is having trouble with its New Core Financial Management System

Now we can see little research that has been directed at the management infrastructure for end-user computing (EUC) from an organization design perspective. This study can be reports on the testing of a previously published contingen model in which two different structural forms are modeled for four states of EUC implementation: First there is an organic design it's characterized by a decentralized, highly participatory form of decision making with loose controls, and second is a mechanistic design.