Archive for the tag 'non-profit'

Feb 24 2010

Wikiedia Crowdsourced its strategic planning process

Published by Stef under community

I’m a firm believer that non-profit organizations need to have a strategy, too. Maybe even more than for-profit ones, because of the constant lack of resources. I’ve been watching without commenting the development of the five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia Foundation: fascinating. The process has entered the last phase, synthesis. There is lots to learn [...]

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Sep 16 2009

Non-profit groups are slow to change

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A very good read and something I have seen happen many times with the non-profit groups I worked with:
If your non-profit isn’t acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or featured on Digg, then you’re failing in your duty to make change.
via Seth’s Blog: The problem [...]

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Feb 29 2008

Messaging, not email

Published by Stef under eng

During the past weeks in the mobile world at Funambol I’ve started deepening my thoughts about how computers are still inefficient and largely too hard to use. One thing that I hate is how the whole online things are separated from the file system.’  I keep my hard disks organized in folders separating my work [...]

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Dec 06 2007

News flash: Managing a non-profit organization is real business

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

After many years of working in a non-profit organization I became convinced that the main difference between for-profit business and non-profit business is in the availability (or lack thereof) of dividends. Plus for-profit companies prefer not to pay dividends and markets pressure corporations to act in stakeholder’s interests (not just shareholder’s) … I leave the [...]

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Nov 12 2007

Politecnico di Torino launches copyright consulting services

Published by Stef under community, copyright

Politecnico di Torino and Regione Piemonte have launced SeLiLi, Servizio Licenze Libere, a service to offer information and consulting services on legal, technological and economical matters regarding copyright licenses. Given the credibility of the Politecnico and in particular to the group that maintains the Creative Commons licenses I think they can do a good [...]

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