Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Nonprofits – still and always – rely on quality data to achieve fundraising targets, which in turn ensure the achievement of organizational goals and purpose. Blackbaud’s Luminate Online® and Raiser’s Edge NXT® are examples of business solutions for nonprofits that 100% cloud-based. Okay, now what is an integration solution?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

And chances are good that you are taking advantage of one or more of these; if not within your nonprofit, then at least for your personal use. Through organizations like Tech Impact and TechSoup , these online services are being offered at a significant discount to nonprofits, charities, libraries, and private foundations.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Nonprofits have joined the trend. The number of nonprofit employees working remotely has increased by 20 percent in the last six years. Worse, it’s a significant security threat when your nonprofit deals with confidential and vital material. You’ll learn how your nonprofit can secure its important documentation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Now that you've set up your network, you need to keep it safe, and to think about what it can do beyond file sharing and managing your Internet access. The Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit , our comprehensive guide to ensuring that your nonprofit or library is prepared for disasters, security breaches, data loss, and more.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. It's got the latest professional versions of industry standard applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro. Run nonprofit-specific reports.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Office 365 for Nonprofits. Here’s what it all looked like to me. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Now available to nonprofits, charities, and libraries through TechSoup, Bitdefender security products protect individual PCs and Macs as well as enterprise networks. These applications have won awards, shone through rigorous testing, and met our strict standards. Infected or suspected files are quarantined to minimize the risk.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And it should serve as a stern wake-up call to all nonprofits and social change makers to shake the complacency off our security standards. apps Backing Up Data Cloud security Using the Web and Internet nonprofits mobile phones cloud computing privacy data' Celebgate Is About More Than Photos. Why It Should Matter to Organizations.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s a surprising truth for a lot of nonprofit organizations: the donate button on your website is a really big deal! A nonprofit donation page that’s slow, clunky, and complicated simply doesn’t deliver the results that branded, embedded donation pages do. Nonprofit organizations fail at caring for their donors. Bottom line?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

More than 90% of nonprofit organizations are using some form of cloud computing today with half of them using multiple cloud services. While the majority of nonprofits are using the cloud for common tasks like email, only about 15% are using cloud-based accounting and fundraising solutions. The Changing Landscape of Technology.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

Cloud-based applications and services are super convenient. For example, you can use SharePoint to host and share files instead of going with a third-party cloud storage provider like Box. Figure out whether you can use a given provider or service while still conforming to applicable laws and regulations. But should you?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

More than 90 percent of laptop and desktop PCs are running some version of Windows. TechSoup's blog post on getting Windows 10 has a comprehensive summary of Windows 10 upgrade options for nonprofits, including how to upgrade Starter, Home, Standard, Pro, and Enterprise version of Windows. File explorer. System settings.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Whether it’s a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit’s or library’s data and computers are always there. Read Security Threats: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Nonprofits. Looking for More Security Products?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom The exception to this rule in the nonprofit space tends to be mobile tools for canvassers, volunteers, or major gift officers, who typically use specialized apps or web applications (e.g.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. OfficeSuite Pro is another popular $10 app that allows you to view, create, edit, print and share Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

I've been warning about the end of XP for months now , urging nonprofits, charities, and libraries to upgrade as soon as possible. During the Q and A several nonprofit attendees said that the cost of replacing their computers is a problem for them. The free version does not migrate your applications. for XP Users for $24.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Part 1 of this series advocated that effective data management for foundations and other nonprofits falls into understanding three key areas: data health, data integration, and how data integration supports data health. Integration applications can do a lot of the ‘heavy lifting.’ Data health and integration – a brief recap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

I’m with Nonprofit Quarterly , and I direct our Advancing Practice program. Our organization is a nonprofit, and we are on a mission to use technology to better serve the world. But for now, let us go into a poll, and our Nonprofit Quarterly friends are launching that right now. But they’re not really from a nonprofit angle.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There are now 140,000 applications available for the iPhone and most of them are expected to run on the iPad. The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Therefore, innovative and influential nonprofit organizations must monitor these trends carefully.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Both are extensible platforms with strong nonprofit user communities. Which leads me to.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Both are extensible platforms with strong nonprofit user communities. Which leads me to.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. I really liked cake. at 4:52 pm Wow.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Your desktop computers, file server, wireless access point, and a data backup device — if you have one — all connect out from your switch. With a network, five colleagues can read and edit the same document from their own computer, plus you can develop shared folders to store joint resources and back up your files.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It is very useful in nonprofits, libraries, schools, telecenters, and any computing lab environment. Installed applications on the host computer appear automatically on all user stations. They can share files, videos, and documents with other people on the WMS network. What Windows MultiPoint Server Can Do.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It is an ideal solution for schools, libraries, small nonprofit offices, and computer labs that are on limited budgets. Windows MultiPoint Server requires a host computer with 64-bit processor, with sufficient processing power (CPU) and memory capacity to meet the performance demands of the number of simultaneous users and applications used.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Whether it's a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit's or library's data and computers are always there. Endpoint Protection suites guard against botnets, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spam, and spyware.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Rather than build our own photo-sharing application, why don???t s big-ticket stories, online applications (like our carbon calculator ), or priority social media presences, I???ll but wouldn???t

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