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How to Launch a Career With Your Blog
	Leslie Taylor writes about How to Launch a Career With Your Blog in Fast Company. Drawing mostly on commercial anecdotes, she nevertheless paints a good picture of the range of scenarios that can play out for the successful blogger. Indeed, I owe much of my own early success in the field of nonprofit technology to Nonprofit Online News. Posted: 12/10/06; 8:12:17 PM #

NGO Accountability
	Fazila Farouk's editorial on NGO Accountability comes to some important conclusions. Although I was impressed with its unity as compared to the United States, civil society in South Africa is now too diverse for there to be deep common agendas. She suggests that peer accountability is perhaps the best way forward. Posted: 12/10/06; 8:09:18 PM #

IT4D: VoIP-4D Primer
	IT4D has released a free VoIP primer, a 40 page guide on building low cost telephony systems, suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences. Posted: 12/10/06; 8:04:06 PM #

Independent Sector's Leadership IS Award
	The Independent Sector's Leadership IS Award is open for nominations until February 15, 2007. The $10,000 award recognizes organizations that invest in the people of the sector as they pursue their mission. Posted: 12/10/06; 8:01:24 PM #

Does technology make managers lazy?

Keeping his spot as one of my top-referenced authors, Gerry McGovern asks: Does technology make managers lazy? I appreciate this question. A fair number of managers would like nothing more than to have to deal less with their subordinates or to have some tool take the place of potentially conflict-laden interactions. The managers who inspire me are the ones who see ICT as an opportunity to connect more deeply and, perhaps, to do those routine things that computers are good at. I also think that, sometimes, ICT can be good at depersonalizing certain exchanges of information, but that is a hard line to draw. Posted: 12/10/06; 7:58:55 PM #