The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter’s Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. NTEN’s blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords [...]
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The front-page headlines read "Hacker steals Twitter’s confidential documents," but the real story isn’t about Twitter — it’s that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." This could happen to any nonprofit or company storing data this way. As we’ve seen over and over, it’s amazingly easy to guess or steal passwords. And [...]
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Want to build your IT leadership skills without a travel budget? Our friends at NTEN are launching a 2-day virtual conference for nonprofit IT leaders. I’m thrilled to see this. I think there’s a big need for a "mini-MBA" for nonprofit chief information officers (CIOs), particularly those who came up through the ranks. NTEN describes [...]
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy is holding another in its series of free online discussions on social networking. This time their guest will be social media guru Beth Kanter (you may know Beth from her eponymous Beth’s Blog — and if you don’t, you should). What: What’s the Payoff? How Charities Can Figure Out How Much [...]
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As we’ve noted previously, The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been running a series of online discussions on how nonprofits can use social media tools. In addition to these open discussions, the Chronicle has been conducting a series of recorded interviews. In the latest, Allison Fine interviews Joe Green, one of the creators of Facebook Causes, [...]
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The recent analysis of giving through Facebook Causes by The Washington Post was not encouraging. It found that only a fraction of the 179,000 nonprofits that signed up for the Causes application have brought in even $1000, and only two have brought in over $100,000. A recent survey published by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort [...]
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Do you know about Google’s Website Optimizer? It’s a free tool that allows you to test how different versions of the same web page perform. The Chronicle of Philanthropy published a brief article (subscription required) describing how the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program used Website Optimizer to determine which of three versions [...]
I recently renewed my California driver’s license. The clerk punched a hole in the license and gave me a paper "temporary license." I didn’t recall this procedure from my last renewal 10 years ago and assumed my old license would be valid until the printed expiration date several weeks hence. I was mildly surprised when [...]
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Last month we mentioned GivingUSA’s annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7% overall in 2008. Things were even worse on the corporate side. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy’s 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 million compared to $33.19 [...]
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