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Your website should be seen and not heard…until I say so

Judi Sohn

Like movie sites, vacation planning sites want you to have the full multimedia experience. Salesforce’s Dreamforce site used to load and immediately start with interviews of folks excited about the conference. This year, so far, the site is blessedly quiet. Drives me batty. I get that.

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Learn the ABCs of Online Security Threats

Tech Soup

A denial of service attack is, simply put, when an attacker (or attackers) overloads a website, preventing others from being able to visit that site. A larger website can sometimes weather a DDoS attack, but if you run a smaller site (and as a nonprofit, you probably do), a DDoS attack can be more difficult to ward off. Sneaky, sneaky.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

NTEN

What they're often talking about is a need to take something currently in Flash and make it "not Flash". This is of particular importance as site visitors increasingly use iPhones or other mobile devices that do not display Flash. We often hear from clients that they want to convert something to HTML5.

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Virtual Volunteer Mobilization Strategies That Can Solve Nonprofits’ Challenges During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Plan a virtual social media “flash mob” where supporters are asked to post organization or issue graphics on all social media accounts for a set time period. Virtual solutions.

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Nonprofit Presenters: What are your best tips for preparing presentations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's an interactive flash site that lets users find and adopt words that are in danger of being removed from the dictionary. In his workshops, he offers the following formula for a storytelling based on Hollywood script writing: Introduce the central character. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic.

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

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ? the culprits. They may be infected.

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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. shows up on a site about AIDS for example. In this post, I???m

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