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7 Things Nonprofits Should Know About Virtual Desktops

TechImpact

With a virtual desktop, everything that you see on your computer screen (the operating system) is actually located on a server rather than on your computer’s local drive. An article on BNews explains what virtual desktops are and how they are being used. Virtual OS systems are shared. Disaster recovery.

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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

Often virtual events don’t elicit the same emotional connection as when a team come s together for in-person service. Right now, less than 2% of corporate investment in disaster goes to mitigation and resiliency – nearly all support goes towards immediate relief.* Skills-Based Volunteering.

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Networking Your Nonprofit: Security and Telephony

Tech Soup

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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New Program! Award-Winning Bitdefender Security

Tech Soup

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. Sophisticated protection stops emerging threats by analyzing the behavior of a given program or process in a virtual environment before it's executed. Awards and Praise.

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NCVS: Mission-Driven Technology Planning

Tech Soup

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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NCVS: Mission-Driven Technology Planning

Tech Soup

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 Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And again, we have a second webinar coming up on October 22 nd , also with the Tech Impact team, about taking your finance office even more virtual, which is something that so many of our participants have been trying to do. Jeanne Bell: All right. Thanks, Karen.

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