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Don't Hire a Geek 2: How to find good IT help for your nonprofit

So you've collected information about your IT needs, you've thought deeply and grokked your problems. Now what?

THIS IS A CRAPPY WAY TO RIGHT AN EMAIL RIGHT?!!!?

We would like to believe that since we're web-savvy enough to be interested in finding out how to bring success to our organization via augmenting our web-presence, paying attention to our email formatting is so 1997. I thought so too until I received the following email:

ALEX I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WITH YO ABOUT THE MILLENNIALS PROJECT DOES ANY TIME THURSDAY WORK??

Now for the quiz:

This email was from:

Buddy, can you spare a mentor?

 

http://knowledgeaspower.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was like a quarter-life crisis, but without the John Mayer theme song. I'd done everything I was supposed to do, and now, there were whole new questions. I realized I couldn't answer all these questions on my own; I needed a mentor (or two).

I was wrestling with new questions regarding direction, business planning, and management of Knowledge As Power. KAP is a small non-profit I founded nearly two years ago with a mission of including citizens in the legislative process by providing legislative information online. In the last two years, with a small board, a lot of boot-strapping, volunteers, and a lot of determination, we now have an alpha, were a 2006 Echoing Green Finalist, got 501 (c) 3 status (it only took the IRS 11 months to approve us!), interns, contractors, a few donations, and some press

the search for a social media guru

This is my first post to this site, though i have looked it over many times this past year. the organization i work for, the interfaith youth core, envisions the value of religious pluralism spreading out to the far stretches of the nation and the world, and all i can do is internally combust at all the opportunity there is to make that happen, with the increasingly developing advent of social media....and no one capable on our staff to really get it going..

how exciting it was to me that we are finally going towards that stage by looking for that person to take our vision, meld it with the wonders of web 2.0 and such, and see the ripples of change towards a global interfaith youth movement:

Keeping eyes peeled for educational innovation at netsquared.....

MeMy day job is as Executive Director of Computer-Using Educators (cue.org). We provide educational technology resourcess for thousands of educators throughout California, host a rockin' annual conference in Palm Springs, and publish a quarterly journal, blogs, podcasts and e-newsletters for our members. 

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