Tag Archives: non-profit

Wikiedia Crowdsourced its strategic planning process

Posted on 24 February, 2010 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Non-profit groups are slow to change

Posted on 16 September, 2009 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Messaging, not email

Posted on 29 February, 2008 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 6 December, 2007 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Politecnico di Torino launches copyright consulting services

Posted on 12 November, 2007 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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