Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2021

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Presented by: Chuck Spidell , WordPress Security Expert at ILLUSIO. Cost: Free. If you’re part of a small nonprofit comms team, your WordPress website updates probably aren’t high on the priority list – but they should be. It’s hard to stay on top of the site maintenance but in the back of your mind, you know it needs to be done.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 16, 2021

Cloudflare is a service that provides a Content Delivery Network (CDN), a performance layer, and a firewall for your website. Aside from the services mentioned, Cloudflare also offers many more. At Byte Technology, we can help you create online tactics that encourages engagement —allowing you the ability to build solid relationships with the people that are very important to your business.

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.orgSource

MARCH 16, 2021

I found a relic of my former life when I was organizing my files. It was a presentation I created back in January 2020. The title was Association 4.0—Creating Community in a Less Social World. I planned to use the deck to launch a new series of in-person Think Tanks. The topic was going to […]. The post As the Pandemic Ends—The Need to Reinvent Grows appeared first on.orgSource.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 15, 2021

This is a guest post from Candace Cody, Manager of Content + Education at CauseVox. Your nonprofit’s board is one of the most powerful fundraising assets you have. But often our board members go untapped: either because you don’t think.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 17, 2021

The humble bicycle tire could be dramatically transformed after a U.S. startup this week unveiled a durable space-age tire that never goes flat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Jim Jackson developed timber and farmland in Eastern Washington, protected from coastal rains by the peaks of the Cascade mountains, building out a clutch of apple farms and other properties on the state’s sunny side for 40 years. Traditionally, he raised money to expand operations for his farms through his existing network, which meant asking previous investors to pool together and come up with the cash.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 19, 2021

Do you remember the first conference you attended? What about your first association networking event? Did you feel welcomed, or more like a wallflower waiting for a dance invitation? As a junior association staffer, I was excited to fly halfway across.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 14, 2021

In an amazing and also somewhat unsettling new A.I. project, researchers were able to read brain waves to generate faces that people find especially attractive.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Zoom Escaper offers a range of sound effects to help with self-sabotage. | Image: Zoom Escaper. Had enough Zoom meetings? Can’t bear another soul-numbing day of sitting on video calls, the only distraction your rapidly aging face, pinned in one corner of the screen like a dying bug? Well, if so, then boy do we have the app for you. Meet Zoom Escaper : a free web widget that lets you add an array of fake audio effects to your next Zoom Call, gifting you with numerous reasons to end the meeting an

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Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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TechSpot

MARCH 19, 2021

Last month, Kosta Eleftheriou, the mobile app developer behind the popular Apple Watch keyboard app FlickType for the visually impaired wrote a scathing Twitter thread on the current state of the App Store. In it, Eleftheriou criticized Apple for not properly enforcing App Store rules, which has allowed several scam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital , a Latin American-based digital agency. More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?

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Digital Trends

MARCH 18, 2021

Got a specific hankering to watch sci-fi flicks about the Red Planet? Check out our list of the best Mars movies you can find on the third rock from The Sun!

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A judge in California ruled Friday that Google has to face a class action lawsuit that claims the search giant secretly collects data from users even when they’re using its private “Incognito” mode, Bloomberg reported. Three users filed a complaint last June alleging Google has a “pervasive data tracking business,” and its tracking persists even if users take steps to protect their private information, such as using incognito mode in Chrome, or private br

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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TechSpot

MARCH 15, 2021

During its recent virtual analyst event, Seagate shared a revised hard drive roadmap that outlines plans for traditional spinning storage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Charles Caldwell. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Charles Caldwell is VP of product management at Logi Analytics , which empowers the world’s software teams with intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the analytics market, including 10+ years of direct customer implementation experience. Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 18, 2021

If we ever hope to keep astronauts alive on Mars for a long-term visit, we'll need to figure out how to grow crops in Martian soil. Is such a thing possible?

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2021

Image: Intel. Intel launched a new ad campaign starring Justin Long, Apple’s “I’m a Mac” actor, but for this campaign, Long is singing the praises of PC laptops and comparing them to MacBooks. The thing is, for reasons that we can’t quite figure out, Intel actually made the MacBook Pros in its commercials look better than they do in real life, as spotted by tech YouTuber Rene Ritchie.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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TechSpot

MARCH 15, 2021

As reported by CNN, the offer comes from UK company Whatshed?, which describes itself as Britain’s biggest and best garden buildings buyers guide. The ad seeks “to recruit a collective of virtual landscape gardeners to provide professional advice to players looking to improve their in-game outdoor space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The global venture capital ecosystem is inequitable. In the United States’ mature venture capital market, an entrepreneur’s race, gender and age help determine who has access to capital. But there are other limiting factors: geography, for example. While it has been encouraging in recent years to cover what has felt like a boom in Latin American and European fintechs , or a general rise in VC activity in a host of Asian countries , the landscape remains imbalanced.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Image-recognition A.I. can be duped fairly easily with adversarial images designed specifically to confuse them, but that might not be the case for much longer.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Nvidia implemented a special system to reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining on its new RTX 3060 graphics card last month. It was supposed to limit mining performance by around 50 percent , but multiple reports now claim cryptominers have bypassed the protection. Japanese site PC Watch first revealed that Nvidia’s protections can be bypassed without needing to modify a driver or BIOS.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2021

Dutch engineer and inventor Lou Ottens, best known for inventing the cassette tape, died on March 6. He was 94.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. However , that’s not the case as limiting factors that hinder proper digital communication come into play at different growth stages. Termii , a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 16, 2021

Radar tech can measure the number of occupants in a space with more accuracy than motion sensors and has the potential to be the future of the smart home.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. Elon Musk has a new title at Tesla: “Technoking.”. The electric automaker announced the head-scratching sobriquet in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, along with chief financial officer Zach Kirkhorn’s new position as “Master of Coin.”. “Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer,” the filing concludes — just in case you were worried that Tesla was officially

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