Leadership
Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud
Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation
The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate and collaborate in more powerful ways.
What we will see over the next 3-5 years is a new paradigm of computing where the use of these devices will be more and more seamless. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work -- but even greater potential for nonprofits to manage their operations more effectively, deliver a broader array of services and achieve greater impact for the communities they serve.
But how can these technologies be used by social mission organizations, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and nonprofits to benefit the most vulnerable people in society?
Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough
David Geilhufe, NetSuite, Inc.
The cloud refers to a number of different technical components from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services, but most folks care about what they can do with cloud solutions.
Simply put, the cloud by its very nature offers you better, more effective software solutions while saving your organization time, money and effort.
Cloud solutions increase the probability of success and reduce the costs of failure. They support and extend the larger trends that are shaping both charity and business operations whether those trends are flex time, impact measurement, real time data, or open APIs and allow you to gain the benefits of those larger trends without really having to think about it much.
