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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. In the days following the fires in Maui, many people didn’t have access to Internet, cell service, even land phone lines.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. With a documented procedure and technology that works from anywhere with an Internet connection. Here's what they said.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? I mean, the biggest thing…this would be probably a good time to speak on a little bit of a story here on the last point, which is home network and internet. Things like that. Remote work.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. The newspaper classified ads were broken forever by the Internet, thanks to a one-two punch from the likes of Monster and Craigslist. And the 2008 U.S.

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