Listservs to join; Woods Fund News
Just a perfunctory moan about the need to keep this up to date. Sorry readers--if you're out there!
I just joined the listserv of TechSoup, whose motto is "Technology served the way nonprofits need it." It's pretty geeky, but -- free stuff!
Most people seem to know about TechSoup and its parent, CompuMentor--because they get their free software this way. I can't believe I ever worked at a nonprofit that paid for Microsoft Office or Adobe PageMaker--since they are available as donations at TechSoup. But the San Francisco nonprofit also has a lot of useful information on how to use and think about technology.
I wouldn't write about any email list that only makes the dinner spectrum of spinach; this one is more like a steak. That is to say, it's good and solid. If you like to eat (or read blogs in this case to stretch a metaphor) you'll love it. It's not dessert, though. For that, I read I Want Media, a simple list of news-related headlines that mostly describes how the Internet is, allegedly, rolling over the gray old newspaper-TV-industrial complex. I like to tell myself that this has some relevance to my job, but the truth is it's just as much fun as going to the aquarium to watch feeding time at the shark tank. A slightly more sober daily treatment of media business news and media policy is compiled--right here in Chicago-- by Kevin Taglang of the Benton Foundation.
I suppose that nonprofit tech (the subject of a lot of nonprofit oriented blogs out there) is slightly higher on the list of organizations' priorities than communications but perhaps not too much. We're looking forward to having Marnie Webb from TechSoup at our conference June 7-8, 2006 on the Columbia College Chicago campus, by the way.
On an unrelated note: big changes at Woods Fund of Chicago. Effective March 8, Ricardo Millette has left the position of president and Deborah Harrington, formerly vice president, has been appointed interim president, effective immediately. Many people appreciated Ricardo as a foundation executive who showed up at community meetings; among Deborah's other work she recently has been leading the foundation's South Side Capacity Building initiative. Phillip Thomas of Woods, meanwhile, has gone to Chicago Community Trust as senior program officer. We're hoping he will be our person at the Trust!
I just joined the listserv of TechSoup, whose motto is "Technology served the way nonprofits need it." It's pretty geeky, but -- free stuff!
Most people seem to know about TechSoup and its parent, CompuMentor--because they get their free software this way. I can't believe I ever worked at a nonprofit that paid for Microsoft Office or Adobe PageMaker--since they are available as donations at TechSoup. But the San Francisco nonprofit also has a lot of useful information on how to use and think about technology.
I wouldn't write about any email list that only makes the dinner spectrum of spinach; this one is more like a steak. That is to say, it's good and solid. If you like to eat (or read blogs in this case to stretch a metaphor) you'll love it. It's not dessert, though. For that, I read I Want Media, a simple list of news-related headlines that mostly describes how the Internet is, allegedly, rolling over the gray old newspaper-TV-industrial complex. I like to tell myself that this has some relevance to my job, but the truth is it's just as much fun as going to the aquarium to watch feeding time at the shark tank. A slightly more sober daily treatment of media business news and media policy is compiled--right here in Chicago-- by Kevin Taglang of the Benton Foundation.
I suppose that nonprofit tech (the subject of a lot of nonprofit oriented blogs out there) is slightly higher on the list of organizations' priorities than communications but perhaps not too much. We're looking forward to having Marnie Webb from TechSoup at our conference June 7-8, 2006 on the Columbia College Chicago campus, by the way.
On an unrelated note: big changes at Woods Fund of Chicago. Effective March 8, Ricardo Millette has left the position of president and Deborah Harrington, formerly vice president, has been appointed interim president, effective immediately. Many people appreciated Ricardo as a foundation executive who showed up at community meetings; among Deborah's other work she recently has been leading the foundation's South Side Capacity Building initiative. Phillip Thomas of Woods, meanwhile, has gone to Chicago Community Trust as senior program officer. We're hoping he will be our person at the Trust!
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