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

NTEN

For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. (See [link] ) Check your new IT staff or contractors out very well. Getting referrals from known friends and colleagues may be the way to go even if it costs you a few bucks more.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Would you trust a survey report about consumer confidence in meat safety commissioned by the beef industry? There are two reasons to pursue this: for better accuracy (trusted source of info) and for more diverse inclusion of voices (trusted source of varied social experience). And here's the bigger problem.

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Friday Links: June 16th

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Communications How does your organization get its mission-driving info out to its supporters? Well, it's this idea that is the biggest misconception in the software industry. The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring.