uja fed ny series: staffing beyond the accidental techie
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Lisa Colton's presentation to synagogues within the UJA Federation of New York catchment area on accidental techies and maturing your staffing for success in the connected age.TRANSCRIPT
Staffing Beyond The Accidental TechiePresented by Lisa Colton, Founder & President Darim [email protected]
Agenda
• What is an accidental techie?• What function do they serve?• When do you outgrow it?• How staffing models are shifting.• Where is your need, and how to get there.
The Accidental
Techie
The Accidental Techie
“In the field of nonprofit technology, an accidental techie is an individual who has gravitated toward responsibility for an organization's information technology infrastructure, even though his or her professional training or job description did not include tasks of this kind.”
-Webster’s Online Dictionary
How Accidental Techies Differ
Learning curve is too steep– You love the challenge and want to learn!
Perceived risk is greater than potential reward– You’re always trying new things, reflecting, evolving!
Don’t see how “rules of the game” are changing– Evidence of “new rules” are in front of you daily!
Don’t extrapolate beyond the technology itself– You know technology isn’t the magic bullet!
The Organizationa
l Need
Ultimate Goal
Help your organization evolve for success in the digital age -- for its own
sake and for the sake of the people you reach and impact!
Used to be change was riskier than the status quo
Today, not changing may be more risky.
Assisting Co-Workers and Volunteers
Working as a Coordinated Team
To Get Somewhere
StaffingConsideration
s
WHAT SKILLS AND CAPACITY DO YOU NEED
TO START SHIFTING HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DO?
Adjusting or Developing Job Descriptions
Program Directors
Social Media Managers
Community Managers
Network Weavers
WHAT SORT OF TRAINING OR SUPPORT DO YOU NEED TO
SHIFT THESE ROLES?
Go Beyond The Technology Alone:John Fitch’s Steam Engine
Go Beyond The Technology Alone:John Fitch’s Steam Engine
Thanks to
for funding this series on the Synagogue as a Networked
Nonprofit