Posts In Category: Technology

Password Security: What Do You Use?

Posted on February 25, 2015 by | No comments
Secure Passwords

How does your organization manage passwords? The answer varies for colleagues and organizations. Password security and management is something that is often overlooked and many organizations fail to properly manage at all. What do you use? When we asked colleagues how they manage passwords, we got an interesting array of answers. Oh, I don’t store […]

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Nonprofit Cyber Security Breach at NCCS

Posted on February 25, 2015 by | 1 comment

A statement, published on The Nonprofit Quarterly‘s site yesterday, from Elizabeth Boris, Director, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, announced the discovery that an unauthorized party accessed information of users of IRS Forms 990, 990-EZ, ePostcard (990-N), as well as Form 8868 for organizations in HI, MI, and NY.   The satement went on […]

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Nonprofit Technology, Digital Strategy, and NTEN

Posted on February 19, 2015 by | 3 comments
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I’ll stick my neck out and suggest there has never been a time where nonprofit technology has been more accessible and pervasive than it is today. (Not much of a risk, there!) It really wasn’t that long ago when all technology budgets, decisions, and challenges were the concern of just one person (or department) at an organization. Today, […]

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Trends Dominating in 2015

Snapchat Discover: The Next Wave of Mobile Storytelling

Posted on January 29, 2015 by | No comments
Snapchat Discover Mobile Storytelling

Two trends collide: Mobile + Storytelling Introducing: Snapchat Discover. Probably one of the best things to ever happen to Snapchat and one of the coolest things to happen to mobile media in quite some time. This new update released during #Snowpocalypse2015, so I had plenty of time to play around with it and learn about […]

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Trends Dominating in 2015

The “Internet of Things” and Nonprofits

Posted on January 21, 2015 by | No comments
Internet of Things

  Looking through the tech blogs over the last couple of weeks, there’s a term that keeps bursting off the pages as I read. And while I’m still not completely clear on what exactly it means, I’m fairly certain it’s important for every entrepreneur to know about.   The Internet of Things, or IoT, is […]

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15 Top Tools for Every Nonprofit

Posted on December 22, 2014 by | 7 comments
15 Top Tools for Every Nonprofit

“By definition, nonprofits are not in the business of financial gain. We’re in the business of doing good. However, research shows that nonprofits are still businesses in every other sense – they employ people, they take in revenues, they produce goods and services, and contribute in significant ways to our region’s economic stability and growth.” […]

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Nonprofit Social Media Help

Nonprofit Social Media Help: Linkedin Tools

Posted on December 16, 2014 by | 1 comment
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In today’s podcast, “LinkedIn Evangelist”, Maria Semple tells us why this social media channel is indispensible to nonprofits. As principal of The Prospect Finder, she regularly helps nonprofits and small businesses understand how to use Linkedin tools to increase visibility and gain valuable connections. What Linkedin Tools? Do you think Linkedin is just for posting resumes? […]

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IT Security

An IT Director’s Guide to Securing Data at Your Nonprofit

Posted on November 11, 2014 by | No comments

This article, written by Spencer Bolles, IT Director of Bay Area Community Resources,  was originally posted on the NTEN Blog on November 6, 2014,  http://www.nten.org/articles/2014/an-it-directors-guide-to-securing-your-data   An IT Director’s Guide to Securing Data at Your Nonprofit With annual giving campaigns taking place soon, now is an ideal time for a self-assessment of nonprofit information security and […]

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Technology Conference

TechNow Conference Updates

Posted on October 21, 2014 by | No comments
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  If you’ve been reading our newsletters or following us on Facebook or Twitter, you should know that Beth Kanter will be the afternoon Keynote Speaker of this meeting of philanthropic tech-loving minds to be held next week in the Pittsburgh area. For the 11th straight year, the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management is organizing this “Technology Conference […]

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Voices from the Third Sector

A Personal Journey: Fitness Tech to Help Nonprofits Raise Funds

Posted on October 20, 2014 by | 1 comment
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Inspired to help charities raise funds with fitness technology: A personal journey. By John Eric Arterberry, Pledgerunner Founder If you’ve ever lived in your car for a week or more, the reality of your situation hits home when you hear a hard knock on the car window soon after falling asleep in the cold of night. […]

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