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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m grateful that Kate Wing has offered up this guest post about her experience at PDF 2013. I’d read about PdF in Steven Johnson ’s book “Future Perfect” and heard about them from Rachel Weidinger of Upwell. That’s how I ended up at PdF. Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013. The 50% conference rule.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine). Strong interest or experience with our main tools: Python and R.

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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. In order to protect against these unknown threats, email attachments should be "sanitized" by converting to a different file format and removing any possible embedded threats. Check Internal Emails.

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5 Steps to Keep Your Email Attachments Secure

Tech Soup

For instance, by converting a Word document to a PDF file, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed before they can do any damage. To prevent unknown threats, email attachments should be sanitized by converting files to a different format and removing any possible embedded threats. Detect File-Type Spoofing.

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Adobe Story Free

Tech Soup

Adobe Story Free is a free online service from Adobe.com that you can use to create your script and help with screenwriting. " The film script format looks to be the simplest template to use. Once in the script you can then write in your script language. You can choose from a range of standard script types.

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The Intersection of Marketing and Fundraising: Tips from the Autism Society of Minnesota, a CauseVox Nonprofit

CauseVox

From your logo and campaign hashtag, to sample posts and scripts, to printable materials and essential language about your campaign, the toolkit distills all the insights you have as a fundraiser into one easy-to-find resource. We send them the full PDF. So what is a toolkit? Maybe they don’t open that email.

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Real-world Salesforce Visual Workflow for a nonprofit

Judi Sohn

I created a ScreenSteps document to show them step-by-step how to enter a new contact/household and distributed the PDF via email. I’d love to see some conditional logic in a later version of Visual Workflow so I can script something like “If email address is entered, match that otherwise match first/last name.”

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