September 4, 2025 Episode #178: 6 Ways to Help Program Volunteers Avoid Compassion Fatigue In this episode of the Volunteer Nation Podcast, Tobi Johnson dives deep into the critical issue of compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress among program volunteers. These frontline heroes play vital roles [...] The post 178 – 6 Ways to Help Program Volunteers Avoid Compassion Fatigue appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
August 28, 2025 Episode #177: Manage Volunteers Like a Pro: 7 Rookie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them In this episode of the Volunteer Nation Podcast, Tobi Johnson dives into the 7 common rookie mistakes non-profits make when managing volunteers and shares practical strategies to help [...] The post 177 – Manage Volunteers Like a Pro: 7 Rookie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Tobi shares 12 innovative appreciation ideas for volunteers and discusses the importance of strategic volunteer appreciation for non-profits.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
I am currently implementing gizmos in my engine (or rather continuing the implementation I made a year ago). I had implemented a way to choose whether transformations are applied based on local space or global space, which is pretty easy for translation and rotation, but not so much for scale. What I would like to do is apply global space scaling without skewing the axes, ideally without using matrices as extracting scale from a matrix is hard to do right. My solution currently (which does no...| Recent Questions - Game Development Stack Exchange
August 14, 2025 Episode #175: Outputs vs Outcomes: Why Counting Hours Isn’t Enough In this episode of the Volunteer Nation Podcast, Tobi Johnson dives into why it’s time to move beyond traditional volunteer metrics like hours logged and retention rates. She unpacks the difference between outputs and [...] The post 175 – Outputs vs Outcomes: Why Counting Hours Isn’t Enough appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Discover practical tips for writing effective volunteer emails that get opened, read, and acted on!| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Cloud sprawl is inevitable but multi-account cloud complexity isn’t. IaC isn’t enough unless every change goes through it. Control comes| ControlMonkey
July 31, 2025 Episode #173: Is Your Volunteer Website Turning People Away? In this episode of the Volunteer Nation Podcast, Tobi Johnson shares valuable insights on how nonprofits can improve volunteer websites to attract and engage more volunteers effectively. Addressing common issues such as unclear value [...] The post 173 – Is Your Volunteer Website Turning People Away? appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Learn how to give clear, confident volunteer feedback that motivates, not alienates. Discover practical tips, real examples, and what to avoid.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Today’s biggest enterprise bets – AI, global scale, real-time everything – don’t just run on cloud infrastructure. They depend on it. But most enterprise Enterprise Cloud Control still operates in a state of reactive chaos. Cloud sprawl. Shadow resources. Security risks hiding in plain sight. Infrastructure built on the best intentions… all held together by […] The post From Drift to Discipline: A New Operating Model for Regaining Enterprise Cloud Control appeared first on Control...| ControlMonkey
Since the 1970s development studies have conveyed an impression of Taiwanese firms as being active small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) with flexibility to successfully survive in a competitive global market. On the contrary, we use the unbalanced panel data of 2,969 top manufacturers during 2002–2015 to explore why and how Taiwanese firms expanded their scale and scope of operations in the new century. Our findings indicate that Taiwanese subcontractors are caught in a dilemma between...| Brill
Retail is evolving fast. Whether it’s the growth of omnichannel shopping, the surge in ecommerce, or the challenges of supporting hundreds of remote retail locations, the pressure is on for IT leaders to modernize infrastructure. Legacy systems and outdated networks just can’t keep up with today’s customer expectations—or the scale of security and operational demands [...] The post Modern Retail Requires Smarter IT: Here’s How to Get There appeared first on Verinext.| Verinext
July 17, 2025 Episode #171: Practical Community Building Tips for Your Volunteer Team In this episode of Volunteer Nation, Tobi Johnson dives into the heart of what makes a volunteer team truly thrive: community. Drawing from both personal experience and well-established sociological principles, Tobi explores five [...] The post 171 – Practical Community Building Tips for Your Volunteer Team appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
July 10, 2025 Episode #170: My Top Takeaways from Giving USA 2025 In this episode of Volunteer Nation, Tobi Johnson dives into the key findings from the Giving USA 2025 report and uncovers the powerful link between volunteerism and philanthropy. Tobi explores how individual donors and [...] The post 170 – My Top Takeaways from Giving USA 2025 appeared first on Tobi Johnson & Associates.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Discover expert strategies to meet core volunteer needs and create meaningful, engaging volunteer experiences that boost satisfaction and retention.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
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The boundaries of conflict are shifting. Today, national security isn’t just tested on battlefields, but in boardrooms, research labs, and everyday digital infrastructure. The post Opening doors for Swedish tech: Lessons from Access UK appeared first on Kista Science City.| Kista Science City
Struggling to convert leads with your forms? We’ll share tips to optimize every element of your lead gen forms for maximum conversions.| Vendasta Blog
Automation-powered DevOps teams deploy changes multiple times a day; low performers do so less than twice a year. More than 80% of businesses have deployment delays that last about 3.8 months each year. Companies say the second biggest reason for these delays is a lack of automation. Automation is a strategic imperative in software development. […] The post Terraform CI/CD Showdown: DIY or Buy? appeared first on ControlMonkey.| ControlMonkey
Discover a simple 4-step framework to train volunteers effectively and boost engagement with practical, action-based learning.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Most children in the Global South now attend school. But: This means students learn less than we would hope (issues I explored in my previous post). So what’s the good news? Well, over the last couple of decades, programmes which dramatically improve teaching have emerged in the Global South. The best approaches achieve an impact […]| Improving Teaching
Mike Tessler, Managing Partner at True North Advisory and founding CEO at BroadSoft, shares his lessons in building BroadSoft to a $2 billion exit.| SaaStock
Dr. Rob Lion joins Tobi to discuss people-first leadership and fostering stronger collaboration between paid staff and volunteers.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Last week I talked about how I’ve been stalling and stalling and stalling when it comes to building a new site about writing and creativity. I also told you how the time had finally come where I couldn’t avoid it anymore and I’ve been surprised to find I’m enjoying myself more than expected. I revisited a couple of reasons why I decided to stop taking on clients a few years ago, namely some lessons I extrapolated from an article by Ben Thompson about the smiling curve, and some though...| Vanseo Design
Ever since I made the transition from being a freelance designer developer to a full time writer I’ve been wanting to build another website, specifically for topics about writing and other creative pursuits. I purchased a domain a few years ago, set up a newsletter signup form, and I’ve regularly written and sent an essay every month or so, but I keep putting off launching a full site year after year. Created by Rico Shen for Wikipedia In large part it’s because a site will require anot...| Vanseo Design
It’s time to move away from big, top-down driven transformation initiatives as they have a very low probability of working out as a net positive outcome for the organisation and its people. Instead we need a people centred, evolutionary and emergent change process that becomes a central part of an adaptable and healthy organisation. This post introduces an alternative to the transactional change approach and references a longer more detailed piece that resides on the ELSE wiki.| Colin's Blog
Tobi addresses the critical need for nonprofits to engage in advocacy and provides actionable steps and dispels myths around these activities.| Tobi Johnson & Associates
It took me a while to realize that at almost every Open House that I host, a guest asks some version of this question: “How much time should I allocate to business development vs. delivering client work?” This is much bigger than a business development or time management question. This, my friends, is a question … Working on the Business Vs. In the Business How to Create the Perfect Balance Read More »| The Upside
Tobi dives into how to expand volunteer jobs at your nonprofit, and shares a step-by-step approach to unlocking the full potential of volunteers!| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Remote CEO and Co-founder Job van der Voort shares lessons from scaling Remote to a global team of 2000+ people in just 5 years.| SaaStock
Honestly I have stopped looking when they weight me at the doctor’s office. I’m gonna have to try the balloon thing some time.| sticky comics
Tobi shares her insights on developing an impactful volunteer recruitment flyer, the 3 big problems nonprofit organizations make and how you can avoid them!| Tobi Johnson & Associates
Tony Jamous, Founder & CEO at Oyster HR, shares how building Oyster HR as a mission driven company helped them scale to SaaS unicorn-dome.| SaaStock
KEDA is an open-source event-driven autoscaler that greatly enhances the abilities of the standard HorizontalPodAutoscaler. It can scale based on internal metrics as well as external Scaler sources. In this article, I will illustrate how to install KEDA on a GKE cluster that has Workload Identity enabled, and then how to configure KEDA scaling events ... GCP: Installing KEDA on a GKE cluster with workload identity and testing Scalers| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
Service meshes add a lot of functionality to application deployments, including traffic policies, observability, and secure communication. But adding a service mesh to your environment comes at a cost, whether that’s time (added latency) or resources (CPU cycles). To make an informed decision on whether a service mesh is right for your use case, it’s important to evaluate how your application performs when deployed with a service mesh. Earlier this year, we published a blog post on Istio...| Istio Blog
Hyper-scale, microservice-based cloud environments have been exciting to build but challenging to manage. Along came Kubernetes (container orchestration) in 2014, followed by Istio (container service management) in 2017. Both open-source projects enable developers to scale container-based applications without spending too much time on administration tasks. Now, new enhancements in Istio 1.1 deliver scale-up with improved application performance and service management efficiency. Simulations u...| Istio Blog
This is a follow-up to my post a couple of weeks ago, The art of LEGO railway track. I’m coming back to the topic because I had a small problem with a platform I’d built (from a Blue Brixx set) – i…| transponderings
Recently, I have had the opportunity to work on some APIs that were implementing rate limiting for users. The idea we started with was to implement a limit algorithm that reset after a period of time, e.g., one hour. I researched rate limiting a bit more, and found another …| cat /dev/brain
The scale of inaccessibility is enormous and things aren’t looking too good.| Frank Elavsky
My general conclusion after a day of digging through and studying a semi-random pile of academic …| Brain Baking