Connection Café: Make Your Nonprofit Technology Resolutions a Reality in 2009!

	Make Your Nonprofit Technology Resolutions a Reality in 2009!
	Posted by at Jan 27, 2009 05:00 PM CST Categories: Productivity, Technology

Resolutions Guide cover Right after ringing in what’s sure to be a big year in nonprofit technology, we teamed with a group of nonprofit bloggers to both share our New Year’s resolutions and to hear from you on what your top nptech resolutions will be in 2009. Our goal was to create an industry-wide dialogue and take the feedback we received – from both the online poll we provided and the comments you sent all of the participants – to better help nonprofits keep their resolutions in the new year.

With responses from hundreds of people throughout the nonprofit industry, we pulled together your insights, determined the main areas where nonprofit organizations and professionals are focusing and created a Resolutions Guide chock full of lessons learned, priorities and real world examples of how other nonprofits have achieved the goals many of you have set in place for 2009. And starting today, the Resolutions Guide is now available online.

A few of the responses we heard throughout the last few weeks included:

"To get more staff involved with building and engaging online with communities of interest and passion around the issues we address."

"We spend a lot of time and money changing information for our donors and volunteers in our database. In 2009, we're going to use our website to let our volunteers and donors help manage that for us."

"To explore what it means to take action online - beyond signing petitions and fund raising - and really stretch the boundaries of using the web for social change."

The participating bloggers who participated also shared the following resolutions of their own:

Judi Sohn resolved to "take the technology we already have and use it to help C3 focus our attention on our constituents and supporters as effectively as we focus on what we do to fight colorectal cancer"

Roger Carr resolved "to teach and coach more nonprofit organizations and volunteers how to take advantage of the online technical tools that are available for promoting their mission and raising needed funds"

Beth Kanter resolved to "use social media more effectively"

Jeff Brooks resolved to "evangelize fundraising" and "be not afraid"

Matt Wilson resolved to "work to make all those things possible that aren’t currently available with the existing mobile giving applications (including our own), make them easy to use, and make them produce real results"

Holly Ross resolved to "use technology to 'work smarter'", "experiment with technology" and "share your successes (and failures)"

Peter Dietz resolved to "scale, translate, report, change, measure, standardize, collaborate, lead and inspire"

Trew Marketing resolved to "test, measure and act", "leverage content", be constituent-focused" and "innovate"

Robert Weiner resolved to "be good to your data"

Is there another resolution or comment you would add to the lists above? Or is there any advice you would add to the Resolutions Guide?

Here's to hoping we can all look up on January 1, 2010 having accomplished all the goals we set out to achieve...and then some!

Make Your Nonprofit Technology Resolutions a Reality in 2009!

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