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Technology to Help You Vote

NTEN

We're big supporters of democracy here at NTEN, so we encourage you to use all the tools at your disposal to help you make your decision and get it counted. As an alternative, voters can always use our 50 state map to find their state’s official poll finder tool or the phone number for their local election office.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Having an agreement with another organization in an alternate location to provide services from there. Image 1: NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact. Anna Jaeger — CTO, TechSoup's Caravan Studios.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. Xobni is a third-party Microsoft Outlook plug-in that, in addition to helping you search and sort your email, aggregates the social media activity of your contacts into a quick-click interface. This simply won't work for WFH 2.0.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.

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What 1.9 Million Donors Can Tell Us About Fundraising on the Web: A Cliff Notes Tour of The Online Giving Study

NTEN

So keep your organization’s profile up to date (contact info, mission, etc.) When presented with alternative organizations on portals, donors respond: On portals powered by Network for Good, more than half the post-Katrina funds went to the smaller charities that were featured. Work hard to win them over.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Constant Contact (a SaaS provider of email delivery) uses IBM DB2. Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. Other companies in the NP space are similar. I believe eTapestry runs on a database package called Versant.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

I have 3 or more people (and discussion boards) I can contact at any time of the day (really!) Yes, if there is keylogger malware that made it into a computer, you could be tracked that way, but this is a viable alternative.). Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff.