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Current Affair: The Importance of Keeping Your WordPress Site Updated

Byte Technology

Indeed, there have been a host of scandals affecting WordPress plugins, not the least of which was the problem with a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected dozens of the programs and allowed hackers to gain access to sites through bypassing owner-controlled security protocols.

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Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today

The Modern Nonprofit

One of our favorite posts is about data hygiene (which can easily be a snooze to read about), but they take on the subject by creating a script for an old-school PSA. If you’re not afraid of getting into the nitty-gritty of network building, both online and offline, this is the blog for you. BETH’S BLOG. FUTURE FUNDRAISING NOW.

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Learn the ABCs of Online Security Threats

Tech Soup

By instructing computers in a botnet to try and load and reload a website repeatedly, attackers can effectively knock a website offline temporarily. XSS — Cross-Site Scripting Attack. Cross-site scripting — or "XSS" for short — is something of a nebulous concept. Sneaky, sneaky.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it. It was actually quite liberating not to be carefully scripted and staged. The reason.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s something we want to give you, along with some online media hosting, to see how you use it. You can upload to their host or you can download a.swf file. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. The project will eventually turn into something else. Yet to be created).

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Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you doing a plenary discussion panel at a conference, it is a good question to ask the host. I usually set up a google document for the panel that includes the script, online interaction design, timings, and logistics (when to arrive for the AV check, etc). I would have added some offline audience interaction.

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