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July 25, 2016
As hackers become increasingly well organized and sophisticated, boards must understand the potential for a cyber attack is a when, not an if, scenario. Learn more in this guide from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
July 14, 2016
The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report, a collaborative research project by Nonprofit Tech for Good and the Public Interest Registry, explores how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their donors and fellow supporters. NGOs and the social sector at large have increasingly harnessed online technology and services to advance their […]
June 28, 2016
Lucy Bernholz sits down with Vermont Public Radio to talk about why Vermont’s nonprofits should be thinking about digital security. Read and listen here.
June 8, 2016
Updated: Follow this link to check out highlights from our Giving Day Fail virtual roundtable and download the podcast! Join us at 10 am PDT on Thursday, June 9th for the MFG virtual roundtable,”Giving Day Fail: Lessons for Digital Infrastructure,” when moderator Andrew Means and panelists Asha Curran, Priscilla Enriquez, and Beth Kanter will dissect the Give Local America Day […]
May 19, 2016
In an open letter to foundations, 22 institutional leaders called for enhanced investment in nonprofit infrastructure – the “organizations devoted to supporting the health of the nonprofit sector.” Likening the value of their work in the social sector to the role that roads, bridges, schools, and other essential infrastructure play in undergirding our society and […]
May 6, 2016
Marking a significant change in its security protocols, Google announced that its Analytics service now secures all communications between client websites, end users, and Google servers. Formerly, Google followed its clients’ individual preferences in choosing whether or not to secure their web traffic via the standard HTTPS encryption protocol. Now, the market leader […]
May 5, 2016
Cultural organizations will be interested in new resources for shared and standardized policies for sharing digitized cultural resources. Learn more at RightsStatements.org.
April 25, 2016
The Vermont Digger covers May 2016 workshops. See the article here: http://vtdigger.org/2016/04/25/international-leader-on-digital-rights-to-lead-workshops-for-vermont-nonprofits/
Important post for nonprofits about ethical, safe, effective (and legal) handling of student data – from friends at Benetech
https://medium.com/@Benetech/beware-the-school-privacy-juggernaut-57ab0cfd9a4f#.egmh2l32j
Read NTEN’s article on digitalIMPACT.io in its April Newsletter. Link to full article here https://www.nten.org/article/supporting-ethical-data-choices/
