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  title info:
    title: User-Centric Technology Design for Nonprofit and Civic Engagements
  name:
    name part: Saeed, Saqib.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 218 p. 43 illus., 40 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Due to the increased global political importance of the nonprofit sector, its technological support and organizational characteristics have become important fields of research. In order to conduct effective work, nonprofits need to communicate and coordinate effectively. However, such settings are generally characterized by a lack of resources, an absence of formal hierarchical structures and differences in languages and culture among the activists. Modern technologies could help nonprofit networks in improving their working. In order to design appropriate technological support for such settings, it is important to understand their work practices, which widely differ from traditional business organizations. This book aims to strengthen the body of knowledge by providing user studies and concepts related to user centered technology design process for nonprofit settings. The examination of ethnographic studies and user centered evaluation of IT artifacts in practice will further the understanding of design requirements of these systems. This book includes chapters from leading scholars and practitioners on the technology design process examining human centered factors. The chapters will focus on developed and developing countries as they both have unique issues in technology design. The book will be useful or of interest to academics from a range of fields including information systems, human computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work and organizational science as well as for government officials and governmental organizations.
  table of contents: Technology Appropriation in Nonprofit Organizations -- Empirical Studies of Technology Usage in Nonprofit Settings -- Open Sources Systems and Nonprofit Organizations -- Web 2.0 and Nonprofit Organizations -- Evaluation of IT Systems in Practice -- Technology based Collaboration among Nonprofit Organizations -- Technology for Advocacy and Mobilization Campaigns -- Technology based Communication among Nonprofit Stakeholders -- IT and Knowledge Management in Nonprofit Settings -- System Usability Issues of Nonprofit Settings.
  note: edited by Saqib Saeed.
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Public Administration
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  subject:
    topic: Management of Computing and Information Systems
  classification: JF20-2112
  classification: JF1315.2-2112
  classification: 351
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Public Administration and Information Technology ; 9
  identifier: 9783319059631
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05963-1
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    record creation date: 140426
    record change date: 20151204141910.0
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