Welcome to episode 34 of the Technology in Human Services podcast. In this episode I speak with Tim Lockie. Tim describes himself as an accidental techie. Like many accidential techies, while he entered the nonprofit and human service sector to help make the world a better place, he found he had some natural tech skills. But, perhaps more importantly, he realized pretty quickly that too often technology is used and implemented for technology’s sake, without truly factoring people into the mix. As you’ll hear him outline in his introduction and as a thread throughout all of his current work, he found that we need a better way to introduce people to technology. Tim has developed a new way to do that with nonprofits and that’s what we talk about in this conversation, along with a healthy dose of how and why you should become better at making decisions with your own data. I think you’ll find it useful and interesting. Some useful resources: * The Human Stack – Traditional technology methodologies have one thing in common, they forget about human behavior. The Human Stack℠ mindset is the human part of tech. The tech stack has taken the front stage for a long time, it’s about time we gave humans their own stack.* Now IT Matters – Tim’s social impact tech consultancy* Why IT Matters – Tim’s own podcast, a series of conversations hosted by Tracy Kronzak and Tim Lockie of Now IT Matters, about change, especially as experienced by nonprofits, technology experts, and the worlds that are served by the impact economy. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript of our conversation using Otter.ai. The transcript has not been edited. It may contain errors and odd sentence breaks and is not a substitute for listening to the audio. Marco Campana 0:00Welcome to Episode 34 of the technology and human services podcast. In this episode, I speak with Tim Locky, Tim describes himself as an accidental techie. Like many accidental techies while he entered the nonprofit and human service sector to help make the world a better place. He found he had some natural tech skills as well. Perhaps more importantly, he realized pretty quickly that too often technology is used and implemented for technology’s sake, without truly factoring people into the mix. As you’ll hear him outlined in his introduction, and as a thread throughout all of his current work, he found that we need a better way to introduce people to technology, Tim has developed a new way to do that with nonprofits. And that’s what we talked about in this conversation, along with a healthy dose of how and why you should become better at making decisions with your own data. I think you’ll find it useful and interesting. Welcome, Tim, to the technology and human services podcast. I really appreciate you joining us today, I’m gonna let you do your own introduction. So if you could maybe tell us a little bit about yourself, your background and what you’re working on. Tim Lockie 1:00Yeah, thanks. It’s so great to be here. As I’m a big admirer. I love the work that you’re doing. I like the way you show up on LinkedIn, and have poignant things to say you say it and you really coll...