 The strength and diversity of our contributing authors is a bedrock value at Nonprofit Technology News. Here you’ll find the very best of the very best of the thought-leaders of our profession. While different in many ways (age, geography, gender, specialty, etc.) our authors share one common trait: they each have the heart of a teacher. All are recognized experts in their specific areas and each speak, teach, write, and appear regularly. And while they each maintain their careers, they are all willing to share their time and expertise in an effort to help their colleagues. We are so very fortunate for that willingness and commitment.
Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction.
She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success.
The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership.
As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994.
Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm |
| Kurt Martin is a Founder and Group Publisher of Progressive Media Group (PMG) and the Publisher of Nonprofit Technology News. During his 4 years as Publisher of The NonProfit Times, he grew the imprint from a single newspaper to a community of websites, online job boards, email newsletters and digital editions of the print editions. Prior to taking the role of Publisher he was the East Coast Sales Manager for Broad Daylight, Inc. a knowledgebase company. He also held management roles in advertising and ciruclation sales at American Banker/Bond Buyer (Thomson), Faulkner & Grey (Thomson) and SourceMedia (Investcorp.) Kurt graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration. |
Pam Baker, an American writer, is the author of six books and numerous analytical studies on various technologies for VisionGain Research, headquartered in London. Her published credits also include hundreds of articles for national and international media such as Wireless IQ, Telematics Journal, IT Business Insider, Institutional Investor Magazine (covering the U.S., UK, Belgium, Ireland, Brazil and Turkey), Success Magazine, E-Commerce Times, I Six Sigma Magazine, CIO Today, NewsFactor.com, Enterprise I.T., BPM Today, MacNewsWorld, LinuxInsider, CRM Buyer, CRM Daily, SCI-Tech Today, TechNewsWorld, Georgia Trend Magazine, Economos International Business Magazine, and Knight-Ridder/McClasky newspapers. Baker was nominated for the 2004 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and Religion in the UK, and is a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
She lives with her family in Georgia, USA and is working on her first fiction novel: a technological thriller. |
| Alice LaPlante is an award-winning business and technology writer with more than 20 years experience producing articles for national publications including Forbes ASAP, Discover, InformationWeek, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld. She is the author of five books, including Playing for Profit: How Digital Entertainment is Making Big Business Out of Child's Play (Wiley, 1999). She lives in Palo Alto, California. |
| Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| With nearly three decades of experience as a copy writer and creative director with advertising agencies in Boston and Chicago, Richard now helps nonprofits and the agencies that serve them with multi-channel branding and fundraising communications at Richard DeVeau Creative. |
| Lorna Doone Brewer is a freelance writer and entrepreneur in Spokane, Washington. After earning a B.A. in Theatre Arts at Gonzaga University, she took her love for the arts and social justice one step further by pursuing an M.A. in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Nonprofit Organizations. Along with her business partner, Tamara Berry, Lorna combined this education with a passion for writing to found the Berry-Brewer Freelance Agency. The company produces a variety of materials for businesses, with a special focus on nonprofit organizations. From grants to web content, Lorna and the entire Berry-Brewer Freelance Agency strive to help each organization fulfill its mission. |
| Pamela DeLoatch is a freelance writer who traded the cold Chicago winters for the hot North Carolina summers, and hasn’t looked back since. With a journalism and business background, she is having fun growing her commercial writing business. |
| Karen Corey is a freelance writer and researcher with over 10 years experience in marketing research and healthcare. She does reviews, articles, and blogs on a variety of topics and specializes in SEO and all types of software. She resides in Southern California.. |
| Carol Pinchefsky is a freelance writer who has written for such illustrious publications as the New York Times and Battlestar Galactica magazine. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their books. |
| News about nonprofit technology includes information and press releases provided by a wide variety of news sources. |
| Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of The Progressive Accountant. |
| Jennifer is a Wisconsin based writer. She has a special interest in technology. Her works have been published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and online. Her business background has allowed her to work in various fields including; Construction, Accounting and most recently Audio Visual. |
Bob Alves is the chairman and CEO of Alexandria, VA-based non-profit software provider, Advanced Solutions International <http://www.advsol.com> . After receiving his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from George Washington University, Bob went to work in the non-profit industry. Bob has always had a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and after wrestling with the general lack of proper customer service and uniform products for the non-profit technology marketplace he was inspired to found ASI in 1991. Driven by the mission of "keeping customers for life", ASI developed iMIS to be easily upgradeable while also creating a world-class, global network of trained customer support staff.
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| Edward Wendling is Marketing Director for Advanced Solutions International (ASI.) |
| Susan Buchanan is a freelance writer specializing in international development, agriculture, food policy, energy, finance and economics. She contributes to newspapers and other publications and is based in New Orleans. |
| Wendy Lowe is Regional Development Director for Campaigner, an e-mail marketing solution that enables organizations to have personalized one-to-one e-mail dialogues with their customers, measure how they respond, and analyze those responses. |
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