Lifeline has gone live with its call centre upgrade, with the system set to enable the not-for-profit to increase its call capacity by 250,000 per year.

Social media, outsourcing and mobility are top-of-mind for Opera Australia CIO, Grant Creswell.

Australia's peak body for Linux and open source software, Linux Australia, will change its constitution and financial year arrangement this month and has committed to offering free memberships for anyone interested in the organisation's programs and events.

A California nonprofit is suing Lawson Software for more than US$1 million over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, according to documents filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Cash-strapped nonprofits may not be the first place many would think to look for novel uses of technology, but it turns out some of them are on the cutting edge.

One problem that is typical for NFPs is the different nature within an organisation of IT users and the technology they apply.

How are relations between not-for-profit with IT vendors?

Within any organisation, however — below the its culture and style of management — there are similarities between not-for-profit and commercial organisations.

CIOs talk about the role technology plays in this vibrant sector.