Robert Weiner

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Migrating recurring donors to a new system

Robert Weiner

If, for instance, you’re moving from a processor that has a recurring billing system to one that doesn’t and you have a separate app that handles sustainer processing then you’ll have several pieces of data that need to migrate. Ask the two processors if they will cooperate on the migration and what they’d charge.

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Top 10 Threats to Higher Ed Computer Systems

Robert Weiner

In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled “ Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students ,&# Jeffrey Young says. You can (and should) read the whole article at [link]. Today a growing number of network bad guys are professional criminals, and they’re looking to steal real money.

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Finding a replacement for Tungle.me

Robert Weiner

It allowed them to view my availability online and propose meetings as if we were all on the same calendaring system. I found this article listing possible replacements for Tungle (ScheduleOnce, TimeBridge, Meetifyr, Bookeo, Acuity Scheduling, TimeTrade, and Book’d). Unfortunately, RIM bought Tungle in 2011 and it started to decline.

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Maybe It’s Not Your Database, It’s You

Robert Weiner

I'm working on an article with the title, "Maybe It's Not Your Database, It's You." The premise is that complaints about an organization's database may be misdirected: the problem is how the system is being managed (aka management problems disguised as technology problems). Did you implement the system properly in the first place?

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Lame spam of the day: Same Day Transfer sent successfully

Robert Weiner

This article says the links deliver malware. Federal Information System [oatenzee24@bmfp.org]. Federal Information System [completeu8@lsinter.net]. The details of the "transaction" differs on each message, but the text is basically the same as below. Senders: Federal Reserve Bank Auto-Informer [woolgm@eoriginal.com].

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Making the Case for Advancement Services

Robert Weiner

I also pointed her to CASE's book Advancement Services: A Foundation for Fund Raising , and CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement , which includes a chapter on Advancement Services, as well as the Association of Advancement Services Professionals. Efficiency.

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Android factory reset on a Samsung S7: The ugly, the bad, and the good

Robert Weiner

At the end the system UI kept quitting, which would then kick me out of whatever I was trying to do. I tried rebooting, wiping the system cache, wiping the cache for every app, uninstalling apps, rolling back to earlier versions of apps like Google Play, and a variety of other fixes suggested by folks around the web, with no relief. (In

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