My biggest take-a-way was from Steve Heye's classs: "For small nonprofits, it is more important to have someone focused on technology strategy, than someone focused on technology infrastruture." Who do you have focused on technology strategy? ...

Conference to Unite Nonprofits and Tech, this Sunday, September 12 @ Illinois Institute of Technology. http://chicagocounts.eventbrite.com/ ...

Emphasis on Cloud 2 and social media does not eliminate the importance of local network and security infrastructure. It increases our demand for bandwidth and the need to control the bad guys who are also attempting to use those same networks. ...

"The end of Microsoft. A door opens to a new cloud," is the title of an article on CNNMoney.com by Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Sales Force. This is the second article that I have read by him. He eloquently describes the differences and the paradigm shift between the different generations of computing technologies. ...

Dean DeLisle, founder and CEO of Forward Progress, Inc. says, "most of us using social media for business networking aren't actually going anywhere." He reports that he does. ...

Great article by Founder and CEO of Sales Force, Mark Benioff. I especially like this chart laying out how he sees the difference between old cloud computing and new cloud computing. He defines the iPad, as part of the new paradigm. ...