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I'm Dennis Fischman. In my spare time, I'm on the Board of the Organizers' Collaborative, which helps grassroots groups and nonprofit organizations use technology to achieve their missions ( Organizers' Collaborative ). I work at the anti-poverty organization in Somerville, Mass. We have a local area network so that all staff in the
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At our organization, managers get into arguments over whether we need to: 1. upgrade our hardware & software, 2. get everyone's machine to do what that person's job requires AND to generate documents that other machines can read, 3. train everyone to use the capacity they have, or 4. motivate staff to do what they've already been trained
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Hi, I'm Dennis Fischman, Director of Planning at the Community Action Agency of Somerville, Massachusetts. You may ask, "What's a Community Action Agency?" Over the course of a lifetime, poverty strikes a surprisingly high proportion of Americans. Illness, disability, unemployment, family break-up, or childbirth can impoverish a family. Regardless