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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. Skills-Based Volunteering.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." " The year was 2005. The Iraq War was raging.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker. Many people aren't even aware that the Find My iPhone feature on iPhones and iPads is regularly syncing your data and your location with the cloud.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). The two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. I thought her comments would be worth posting.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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