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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ROBERT WEINER FEBRUARY 11, 2011 Controlling data entry A member of the PRSPCT-L listserve (for prospect researchers) asked "What do other institutions do to regulate or “police” data entry work, specifically when you have multiple users with authority to make updates?". It's a tough problem. Here are a few approaches (other than locking down data entry): Policies. Security. Training. Monitoring. | ROBERT WEINER DECEMBER 7, 2011 Lame spam of the day: BBB service Re: Case # (various numbers) friend posted about them on a listserve and said that clicking the link downloads a virus. I got 7 versions of this today, at 2 different email addresses. They included an attachment called bbb_logo.jpg but no graphics in the message body. This scam has been around for a while. Here's an article about a similar batch in 2007. | | | | | |
| ROBERT WEINER JUNE 21, 2009 Advice for Consultants - Part 2 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector. Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. | ROBERT WEINER OCTOBER 4, 2009 Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email prefer listserves over online forums and email to IM. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks: I like to get information by email. And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. want information to come to me -- I don't want to seek it out. | ROBERT WEINER JULY 17, 2009 Advice for Consultants - Part 3 Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. This is the third in a series of posts aimed at new consultants in the nonprofit sector. The previous posts are at Part 1 and Part 2. Make sure you have enough savings, loans, or other income to tide you over while you build your business. Everyone needs health coverage. | ROBERT WEINER APRIL 19, 2009 Favorite Free Software Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use). Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Avast! — Free anti-virus for home use: [link]. link]. | | | | | | | |
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ROBERT WEINER | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008 Guessing the Gender of a Name
The PRSPCT-L listserve (for prospect researchers) had a discussion of resources for figuring this out and members provided the following suggestions: [link]. Ever wonder how to tell the gender of an unfamiliar first name? link]. link]. link]. MORE >>
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