{"id":329,"date":"2011-12-13T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/recruiting-computernetwork-consultants-paid-o"},"modified":"2020-07-06T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:55:39","slug":"recruiting-computernetwork-consultants-paid-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/12\/recruiting-computernetwork-consultants-paid-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Computer\/Network Consultants (paid or volunteer\/pro bono)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two reasons mission-based organizations (nonprofits,  non-governmental organizations, and public sector agencies) need to  recruit computer\/network consultants, paid or volunteer\/pro  bono:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Staff at mission-based organizations such as nonprofits, NGOs,  schools and government offices have a great deal of expertise in a  variety of areas &#8211; but, often, such staff  do not have expertise in computer hardware, software, and  technology-related networks. That means that staff at such organizations  often have to rely on consultants, either paid or volunteer, for such  expertise.<\/li>\n<li> An organization needs to recruit paid or volunteer \/ pro  bono consultants to participate in its program delivery to clients or  the public: an organization that helps nonprofits build accessible web sites,  for instance, or a community center that helps the low income community  it serves regarding computer literacy may want these consultants, paid or volunteer, to  design and lead classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staff at mission-based organizations such as nonprofits, NGOs,  schools  and government offices have a great deal of expertise in a  variety of  areas, such as health care, child welfare, environmental  management,  community outreach, human resources management, microfinance, emergency  logistics, and on and on. But staff can feel a sense of both  awe and fear about  tech consultants &#8212; that whatever the consultant  says goes. Staff may  feel unable to understand, question or challenge  whatever that  consultant recommends.<\/p>\n<p>What can mission-based organizations do to recruit the &#8220;right&#8221;  consultant, whether paid or volunteer, for &#8220;tech&#8221; related issues, one  that will not make them feel out-of-the-loop or out-of-control when it  comes to tech-related discussions or the delivery of tech-related  services?<\/p>\n<p>See this updated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/tech\/consultants.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recruiting Computer\/Network Consultants (paid or volunteer\/pro bono)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two reasons mission-based organizations (nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, and public sector agencies) need to recruit computer\/network consultants, paid or volunteer\/pro bono: Staff at mission-based organizations such as nonpr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[82,104,110,249,271,10,9,377,402,403,433,529,530,532],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-charities","tag-computers","tag-consultants","tag-ict","tag-it","tag-ngos","tag-nonprofits","tag-probono","tag-recruit","tag-recruiting","tag-schools","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-5j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}