E-governance Is Good Governance: Improving Nonprofit Board Leadership through Online Technology

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Dottie Schindlinger, Vice President of E-governance, and Leanne Bergey, Chief Strategy Officer

Teaser:

At its core, the concept of e-governance is about good governance. With the widespread adoption of e-governance in the nonproﬁt sector, there is a paradigm shift as boards move from passive consumers of historical data to active participants in knowledge creation and management. With e-governance, nonproﬁts have the potential to cultivate the ideal board.

In "E-Governance Is Good Governance," from Internet Management for Nonprofits, authors Dottie Schindlinger and Leanne Bergey define e-governance and examine how Web-based technologies like board portals can improve leadership and management.

While focusing on improving these qualities in the boards of non-profit organizations, these technologies have applicability in for-profit business as tools for facilitating document sharing, communication and collaboration. Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation have goaded many companies to adopt e-governance principles in order to comply with transparency rules.

This excerpt was reprinted and is available for free download at IT Business Edge with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Ted Hart, "Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools, and Trade Secrets," 2010.

E-governance Is Good Governance: Improving Nonprofit Board Leadership through Online Technology

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