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Security Tool

jakos — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:18:48 GMT

Hello out there i have a PC infected with the Security Tool Malware any suggestions besides wiping the machine clean?

Tweaking a NP Facebook Page

Gunpowder — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:21:01 GMT

Kind of a kick of from the popular thread on making a FB page, I have a couple of questions I haven't been able to find answers to.

I had a Cause page but am moving traffic over to my FB page www.facebook.com/pages/edit/ .

Somewhere on my page I want to add links to:

-My facebook Cause page apps.facebook.com/causes/105258/58450779

-My Facebook IGIVE page apps.facebook.com/igivefb/cause.cfm

-my IGive page for my organization www.igive.com/welcome/warmwelcome.cfm

-my organizations website www.getintonature.com .

Question1: Best way to do this? Add a Cause box, a favorite pages box, or a links box? Add all?

Question 2: Because I have a personal facebook page I have had issues adding any of these items to my NP page. It keeps going onto my personal page instead. I guess I haven't found out the secret yet.

Comments?

Thanks Mike

Single Mom wants to award 1st grader

ladytee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:44:46 GMT

I am presently seeking assistance/resources that aid low income families with acquiring hardware and software to help improve educational outcomes for children. If there is anyone with resources that donate or sell upgraded computers at very low price with age appropriate programs targeted to elementary age children PLEASE help.

Webinar: Using Ning to Connect with your Community

kamig — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:31:37 GMT

On Thursday, October 15, at 11 a.m. Pacific time, TechSoup Talks will be conducting a free webinar which will give an overview of Ning and how it is being used by several organizations. Learn what it takes to get a Ning site set-up and the resources needed to keep it going. Manny Hernandez, author of "Ning For Dummies" will be presenting and answering follow up questions here.

Click here to register!

ConstantContact vs Vertical response

Gunpowder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:27:23 GMT

The brief story:

My ISP sold their dial-up division to another entity that limits outgoing e-mails to 20 recipients. I discovered this when trying to do a press release (33 recipients). I also send out e-alerts to a much larger group.

My website is hosted locally but my e-mail now goes through another company. I have the choice of changing my e-mail back to my local ISP which will involve alerting everyone who is not using my URL.

I could leave everything as is and try CC or VR for my high volume e-mails.

BTW, My e-mail is free as a NP regardless of what I do. Technically my free account is still handles locally but since I am on dial-up it does go through the other company that is operating the dial-up side.

We are looking to switch to DSL but the wbehosting will probably stay local since they only charge us $4/mo.

Suggestions.

Hosts 40-50 minutes of Video (for academic lectures, etc) ?

scottmacleod — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:27:14 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to add free Video-streaming Hosting Services to World University and School, especially those that will host 40-50 minutes of video (for academic lectures), and even as long as 2 hours plus. What web sites would you suggest?

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Video-Streaming_Hosting_Services

World University has listed the following so far:

Blip TV	http://blip.tv/	Blip	Free video hosting, 10 minute length limit	All Levels	English
Daily Motion	http://www.dailymotion.com/us	Daily Motion	Other Info	All Level	Languages
Flickr Video	http://www.flickr.com/	Made by Flickr	Other Info	All Level	Languages
Kyte.tv	http://www.kyte.tv/home/index.html	Made by	Other Info	Level	Languages
Vimeo	http://vimeo.com/	Made by	Other Info	Level	Languages
Youtube	http://youtube.com	Google	Broadcast yourself for free, 10 minute length, 100 MB limit	All Levels	English

What others can you suggest?

Teach, Learn or Add courses to WUaS. There's great, free educational software here, as well.

Thanks,

Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

Online conferencing solutions for nonprofits

BeckyW — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:00:06 GMT

Have you used online conferencing software to host meetings or trainings for your organization? Have you held a virtual meeting in Second Life? Do you have a favorite tool -- free or paid -- that fulfills your voice, chat, IM, document sharing, and conferencing needs that everyone else should know about?

If so, here's the place to share it! As part of TechSoup's TeleGreening Your Work campaign starting next week, we'll be talking about all kinds of great tools for reducing travel while increasing your effectiveness. Online conferencing tools for webinars and virtual meetings are a big part of that so share your favs below. Check out our new article on how using online conferencing tools is a great way to go green as well!

We'll update this thread with articles, blog posts, and other tidbits relevant to the conversation as the campaign launches.

Ideas for TechSoup Online Events

MeganKeane — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:40:00 GMT

Here at TechSoup we're coming up with some exciting new online community events to take place in the coming months. Some of the events we've held in the past have included digital storytelling, social networking, and disaster planning and recovery.

We'd love to get event ideas from the TechSoup community. Have a suggestion for an online event you'd like to see? Post your ideas here.

Best,

Megan

Email Fax

gkissi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:36:49 GMT

I tried to order Myfax but got a message that my Organization does not qualify even though it does! Has any one else have this problem and is there another option that's as low cost as Myfax?

Thanks

Free, Open Web Video with Slide Show Presentation Software to Post to World Univ FREEWARE

scottmacleod — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:54:42 GMT

Hi,

I'm developing the open, free World University and School, - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware.

I'm looking for free, open web video with slide show presentation software which I might post to World Univ & Sch Freeware 'educational software?' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Here's an example from an economics course already posted at World Univ & Sch - http://mediasite2.towson.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=3b00a251870a449585a0428447d112dc (at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics).

(Here's the World University and School Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School\, and Facebook Group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141. Please join! :)

What free, open web video with slide show presentation software do you know of?

Thanks,

Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

Creating Nonprofit Facebook Page

TechSoupblog — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:05:00 GMT

Tech Soup blog has a message for those of you at organization's grappling with a jump into social networking sites like Facebook. Our pals over at the Wild Apricot blog have some helpful primers on how to maximize your presence. Does seeing other nonprofits on facebook make you want to create a page of your own? Who has a really good Facebook page?

Webinar: Behind the Scenes of TechSoup Talks

kamig — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:46:08 GMT

This webinar, happening on September 10 at 10am Pacific, will take you behind the scenes of TechSoup's webinar program. We will go step-by-step through the process, describe how our webinars are organized, what we do, and don’t do, to ensure a successful webinar. We will use this forum following the webinar to continue the discussion and address unanswered questions.

Click here to register: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/17xbtapska7q

Looking for Excel Trainer

sfmike64 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:59:55 GMT

One of my clients is looking for an Excel trainer. Probably just a one off thing, but of course money is very tight.

Please email me if you have any suggestions or you do this sort of work. They are using 2003 now and will be on 2007 fully (it's about half done) by the end of the year.

Recommended Online File Sharing sites?

teija — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Can someone recommend a site where nonprofits can share files at a low/no cost? Some files are too large to send by email and I am looking for alternatives. Google Docs has limits on file sizes that are too small. Others I have seen include keepandshare.com, box.net, globalfolders.com, megaupload.com.

Any recommendations? Thank you!

discounted software for manicipalities?

highland2009 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:12:45 GMT

Does anyone know where to buy discounted software for manicipalities 170 (c) (1) ?

Specifically, we are looking for Adobe Contribute.

Google apps success stories please.

sianliu — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:23:38 GMT

Hello everyone, may I please introduce myself. My name is Sian Liu, IT Support at Parents Helping Parents here in San Jose, CA. We help familities with children with special needs. http://www.php.com

If I may, we have a question about using Google apps instead of having an in-house Exchange server.

We’d be very interested in hearing about what other non-profits are saying and if you can share your success stories that’d be fantastic!

How many gmail users are in your non-profit?

Have you had any problems with restrictions and spam filtering which often results in mail that should be coming through and not doing so?

Did you have any problems migrating your existing Exchange email to Google’s servers?

Thank you very much! We look forward to hearing from you.

Best Tool for Webinars (Including On Demand)

barbarap@facingourrisk.org — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:07:00 GMT

Hi - need to make a decision on a system to do monthly webinars (probably a couple of hundred attendees). Looking at a PPT and audio combination.

I know there are alot of systems out there but I also want one that will allow us to save and make the events available on demand. Not sure if companies host the files on their server or provide them in a format that we would host on ours.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Vista Domain Issues

dawsi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:53 GMT

When a Vista client is added to the domain and applies the default group policies, the diagnostic policy service and dhcp service will not start and responds with an Error 5 Access is denied. However, if the Vista client is placed into a separate OU and policy inheritance is blocked the Vista client functions as it should.

Sending SMS messages to large groups

bigbuddy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:29:14 GMT

Hi all,

We are looking for a simple web based system to send mass SMS messages out to our community of volunteers.

Some people have told me Twitter could do this or are their other services available at no or low cost?

We are New Zealand based so it would have to work outside of the states

Richard Aston

Is there something better than wordpress for this?

felio — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:06:57 GMT

I need to create a private (password-protected) web space that offsite staff can log on to. The two uses of this space are 1). to upload files from the office for them to download at home (typically scanned documents in files too big to email as attachments), and 2). to keep a calendar with details (date, time, place, who's attending) of upcoming appointments for their reference. We only have a few appointments each month, so our needs are simple.

We currently accomplish this using two private webpages on our existing website, one for downloads and one for the calendar, but my html skills are very basic, and there are features I would like to add that are beyond me.

First, I would like to have everything on the same page, in a two-column format. At the top of the page, there would be a header with our next meeting date and links to related files (agenda, etc.).

In one column would be a small calendar grid for the current month (with arrows for upcoming and previous months). Dates with an event attached would appear in a different color, and details would pop up in a ballon on mouseover, or possibly below upon clicking (it would be nice if users could easily paste/print this information).

In the other column would be links for the uploaded documents, with the most recently uploaded appearing at the top. However, instead of scrolling down on an endless page as we currently are doing (the users do not want me to expire old uploads off the site) there would be a keyword search field above the first page of links that would search all uploaded documents.

Finally, I'd like the whole thing to have a more professional look than I'm able to create.

I've experimented with adapting a WordPress blog to this purpose, with each uploaded file as a post, but have run into some issues - can't upload Excel files; the calendar widget tracks dates of uploads, rather than the events I want it to reflect. Also, this blog is on the WordPress site. I'd rather download the WordPress software (which our webhost does support) and host the private blog on our own domain, but it's unclear the privacy functions are supported in the standalone version. However, the subdirectory into which I would install it is already private, so perhaps that wouldn't be an issue? It seems to take a lot of research to find answers to apparently simple questions about configuring WordPress, which concerns me.

Any thoughts on whether WordPress is an appropriate tool for my goals, or something else would be better? Feel free to suggest another approach that would require less adaptation, if you know of one! Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Sample Agreement Between Site and Vendor?

RLCFassistant — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:05:46 GMT

Hi,

My non-profit historic site is beginning to allow the site to be rented out for events. We have established relationships with preferred caterers and other vendors, but need to have each of them sign agreements. Does anyone have a sample of an agreement, or know of an online site where one can be obtained?

Thank you!

Automatic Birthday Emails

pricepurvis — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18:08 GMT

I am searching for a program, either online or hosted, that will send birthday emails to donors on their birthday. Does anyone use a program like this?

Thanks...

Price Purvis
Allied Arts
Oklahoma City

A Non-Profit Mission for All of US

michaelkpn1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:46:31 GMT

Changing Facebook from individual to group?

shadeg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:14:47 GMT

We recently learned that we're on Facebook as an individual...several hundred friends later! Has anyone had any luck moving from an individual to a group so folks can be fans instead? Or are we having to start from scratch as a group page? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Libraries vs Friends Orgs

lpalocsay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:59:13 GMT

We just started a Friends organization for our local Los Banos CA branch library and just received our 501(c)3 determination letter

All the info I have seen at Techsoup relates to actual libraries.

Can the Friends organizations also participate?

We are in a rural area with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country and really need to enhance our local branch library capabilities.

Thanks for your help.

Les