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Free Password Management Tools
In recent blog posts, I've written about methods you can use keep your information secure. I also wrote about the importance of keeping your passwords safe. However, I haven't given any practical tools one can use to protect their data. Several utilities exist for...
Securing your Website
A trusted website such as your nonprofit's is the last place from which you'd expect visitors to get a virus. After all, it’s your website, and your organization built it (or relied on a volunteer to build it or paid a trusted individual or firm to build it). Why...
Password Security & User Accounts
In last week’s blog post, I explained just three ways you can keep your organization’s data safe. There are often times, however, that an individual or organization uses an online service. In these cases, while the data is certainly yours and only you have access to...
Information Security: 3 Ways to Secure Your Data
Information is the lifeblood of any organization, whether that organization is a nonprofit or not. For example, a nonprofit might have a large donor database with mailing addresses, email addresses and phone numbers for all of their constituents. What would happen to...
What is “Cloud Computing”?
In this post, we try to briefly introduce "Cloud Computing," and what it means to nonprofit organizations. Cloud Computing (or "The Cloud") is a term that is constantly used by individuals and organizations about technology products and services. But what does it...
The Different Types of Web Hosting, and Why it Matters
There are thousands of webhosting companies in business today, and while many provide great service, the market is saturated with companies that provide less-than-stellar service at low prices. I firmly believe that in the web hosting & web development industry,...
Building a Website
Introduction There are millions of websites on the web today, and the majority of Americans and residents of other developed countries use the internet to find information they need. The IT infrastructure is also slowly being improved upon in developing countries. As...
Open Source Software for Community Development Organizations
Editing Note: This is a legacy blog post, originally published several years ago on a website that was a precursor to Barred Owl Web. As non-government organizations (NGOs), community development organizations require a lot of assistance in the technology sector, as...