Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. hours of community service. transcribing historical documents ?and?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Whether involved in humanitarian response in conflict or disaster situations, development work, human rights, or peace-building, our international nonprofit customers have some of the most complex nonprofit missions on earth. If the Salesforce Mobile SDK is utilized, it can work together with this as well. should also be considered.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

This is a disaster waiting to happen. They can take them anywhere they need, access all their applications and data, never worry about malware, backups, disaster recovery, etc. Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? There newest computer is three years old.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Freestore Foodbank: Standardized Practices and Disaster Planning (TechSoup Blog) Learn how one organization standardized its systems across multiple branches and put regular backups in place just in time for a disaster.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Next, look to protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software. This usually means setting up a second server to back up data as you work, or configuring a NAS to serve as a backup.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prepare for disasters, security breaches and data loss with our comprehensive Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit. BackupPC : A high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows, and Mac desktops and laptops to a server's disk. See what security issues might go along with moving your IT to the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. Since participants were from organizations working on similar content areas, this helped everyone. The Importance of Energizers Throughout. This keeps the training active and helps people attend to the learning.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. Nancy Jo's and CACRC's work in frontline disaster relief was featured in Sundance Channel's "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" series. They came from Alaska, from ad agencies on Madison Avenue, from everywhere.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I learned a thing or two about the importance of basic infrastructure and processes - I'm my own IT department so I have a disaster plan. For catastrophic hardware issues, I have my back up computer - my laptop and I can plug my desktop keyboard, modem, and monitor) and viola I'm up and running.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

We might even take for granted and forget about the complex electronic security that protects us from what could be costly and time-consuming disasters. Awards and Praise.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

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. If the office gets flooded because the sprinklers went off when a colleague burned popcorn in the office microwave, then you're out of luck.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 5, 2006

Each morning I grabbed my laptop and bopped off to the internet cafe with Doria to have a latte and make sure we weren't missing something in our email that might change our lives. After all, this was your typical near disaster that illustrates the zen of computer problem solving. I just got back from a week at the beach.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. What is the disaster recovery plan? .” The final two topics will be focused on “Securing your LMS with emphasis on data security and establishing proper permissions.” Where is the hosted solution physically located?

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Bitcoin's instant transfers can make an immediate difference in funding the efforts of nonprofits with very time-sensitive missions, such as disaster relief. " Quick Donations. Converting bitcoins to spendable dollars adds time, though, so you should consider whether the added speed would make a significant difference for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls). What I wasn't able to find was any research that spoke to the pros and cons, in a scientific way, of integrating social media into instruction. Know of any?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council was recognized for their great disaster relief work and their leadership in teching up schools in southern Louisiana. Here’s what it all looked like to me. What this means? MyDigitalBridge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We had wifi in the room and participants brought their laptops – this give us the opportunity for open lab time or what I call “shoulder to shoulder” learning. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Report Back From an Event, Trip or Disaster Do you have staff or constituents going to a conference that your supporters would be interested in hearing about? Blogs can also provide ways for people to find out information about loved ones if your organization works in disaster relief situations.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Any system sitting on a server – or data sitting on a laptop – in your office is exposed to the risk of physical theft. Make sure that you can always get your hands on backup copies of the data from all of your business systems in the event of a disaster. 5 – Storage and backup.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

They remind me a lot of Rod Beckstrom's ideas that I posted earlier about IT support following a disaster. Our agency has that functionality - we have disaster web site, email address and phone number on our ID badges to let the agency know where we are and what is happening, but there isn't any connection outside.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Protect your donor, client, and project information across your entire network of "endpoints" (desktops, laptops, and servers) with Symantec's donated enterprise-level security software. Endpoint Protection suites guard against botnets, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spam, and spyware.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2018

Now, imagine that the lights went out (this isn’t about disaster preparedness, so let’s imagine that everyone is safe, and everything is still okay!). No relying on memory or keeping information about a donor with a single staff member (or in a spreadsheet stored on their laptop alone). So much going on under one roof!

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2011

We have set up our laptop lab for overflow from the regular lab. We've tried to get word out through the media and through every Facebook relief page we could find that we are open for cell phone and computer charging and have good Internet connection. Today people are beginning to come in for computer use.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It probably won’t be until 2015 or later that tablets reach the point where they can replace a laptop or desktop completely – office application use is still too stunted by the small screens and keyboard issues – but more and more people will have them. In 2014 there will be some important new CEOs. John Merritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Every day, thousands of people call, text, and web chat with highly trained 2-1-1 specialists to find food, health care, financial services, stable housing, transportation assistance, disaster resources, and more. As part of a larger effort to raise awareness about 2-1-1, in advance of 2-1-1 Day (on February 11, get it?),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. Mobile Computing. The Decline of PCs. The Internet of Things. The Cloud in 2013.

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