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Nonprofit Management Recommendations

The Modern Small to Mid-Size Nonprofit’s Tech Stack (2021 Edition)

I wrote a list of my favorite tech for the modern nonprofit in 2016, 2017, and 2019. Here’s my updated 2021 recommendations. A smidge of background – I was a CTO and technology entrepreneur for 15 years, and am now several years into being full time in the nonprofit world working on beating cancer for […]

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Nonprofit Management

Facebook: the video host of choice for nonprofits?

At Beat Nb, we’ve been using Facebook as our main video host for the past couple years. It’s a conscious decision which we made only after studying how our videos are discovered and interacted with.One of our recent videos – Hannah’s story, who’s beating neuroblastoma cancer in Sarasota, FL. Many of the videos we create […]

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Nonprofit Management Recommendations

The Modern Mid-Size Nonprofit’s Tech Stack (2019 Edition)

I wrote a list of my favorite tech for the modern nonprofit in 2016, and again in 2017. Here’s my updated 2019 recommendations. A smidge of background – I was a CTO and technology entrepreneur for 15 years, and am now full time in the nonprofit world working on beating cancer for kids at Beat […]

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Nonprofit Management Personal

Running Ragnar as an Ultra Team: Ragnar Cape Cod 2018

6 of us ran Ragnar Cape Cod this past Fri/Sat as an Ultra team (6 people, 183.6 miles). 5 of us had participated in a traditional team (12 people) at Ragnar Michigan last year, so we had some familiarity with the event structure. Mandy, our 6th, had never run a Ragnar and joined the team […]

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Entrepreneurship Nonprofit Management

The Modern Mid-Size Nonprofit’s Tech Stack (2017 Edition)

Last year, I wrote a post called “16 Technology Tools Your Nonprofit should be Using in 2016.” As we’ve continued to refine our process over the last year and a half, this article will update on the technology tools Beat Nb uses, and my recommendation on the technology a modern mid-size nonprofit should be using. […]

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Entrepreneurship Nonprofit Management Personal

8 Things I Learned Working from Home

I started working from home full time in 2008. I was 26, and ModMyi.com (then only a year old) had started making enough for me to quit my “normal person job.” While my wife Robyn worked at the local pie shop (really) to help cover the bills, we were living in a 1000 square foot apartment in […]