What's New in NPTech

What's New in NPTech

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What's New in NPTech episodes

  • Episode #23: Chromebooks, a small sample size
    In this episode, Jim describes his experience in first selecting and then purchasing a Chromebook to replace his PC. While doing this he realized that the Chromebook may be an ideal fit for nonprofits, both because of the price points, and also because through Google Docs, it is an ideal way to share work products within a group.
    Birgit provides the technical narratives that allow us to focus on the technical features of the Chromebook. There are links attached to lead the reader to the online comparisons and recommendations that led Jim to his purchase.
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  • Episode #22: Optimize Your Emails to Donors for Mobile Reading
    In episode #22, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss what you can do to increase the effectiveness of your emails. First, they discuss the method in which your emails are received, hint: mobile. Then they go on with emphasis on how you can be more effective with your donor base. This discussion ranges from the […]
    28 min
  • Episode #21: Locating and handling graphics and photos for your Social Media and Blogs
    Jim O'Reilley & Birgit Pauli-Haack discuss the value of visual content for social media and blog post. They provide solutions to the challenges content creators face locating and handling graphics and photos, from licensing and proper attribution to free images. They also talk about image quality, image weight and load speed of a website as a Google ranking factor. And lastly, Birgit & Jim go over the aspects of how a photo on the blog also becomes the eye-catcher on the social networks to drive traffic to your website. Birgit also goes off on a tangent about the creation of the Unsplash.com site as well as how long a Facebook Video should be.
    23 min
  • Episode #20: Donor Data Privacy
    Donor Data Privacy – Where it is now and where it appears to be going In this episode, Birgit and Jim revisit the topic of Donor Data Privacy. They begin with the premise that just as nonprofit organizations believe that they ‘own’ the content of their websites and blogs, so donors believe that they ‘own’ […]
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  • Episode #19: How to Stack Technology Tools for a Startup Nonprofit
    In this episode, we're going to discuss technology stacking, specifically software. Stacking is a way to organize your software planning in such a way that from the very beginning to further down the line, you will not have to rework major parts of your plan due to forgetting important steps.  Let's go to the non-profit in start-up mode. A group of like-minded people working on an idea to better the world.  When the organization doesn't have a 501c3 status yet and is not eligible for offerings via TechSoup, it is also not yet eligible for Google for non-profits, nor for Microsoft Office 365. We'll discuss a path for founders to think through to the end vision. Before one starts the journey and as a result keeping the redo effort to a minimum. It's not always possible that everything is a journey into the unknown, especially in technology, but there are some basic principles that apply when one begins to think about untangling your private information from your organization's business.
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  • Episode #17: Timing & Scheduling Social Media Posts

    Jim O’Reilley and Birgit Pauli-Haack discuss ways to streamline scheduling social media publishing and cross-posting. Use analytics tools to find out when your followers, fans are online so you can optimize visibility of your posts. Make a plan for your online activists’ volunteers to spread out their reposting, retweeting and sharing of your information. Learn more about the Social Quant Study on how to increase your Twitter engagement. And learn of methods how to reshare Instagram photos on Instagram and Twitter.

    NPTech News
    • The Webby Awards
      • Internet Archive – Lifetime Achievement Award
      • Women’s March – Social Movement of the Year
      • Women’s Footprint in History – UN Women produced by Elkanodata – Winner Webactivism
      • Shout Your Abortion by Civilization – People’s Choise
      • 29 min
      • Episode #16: The 2017 Nonprofit Technology Awards

        In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss the recent nonprofit Technology awards of this Spring. Birgit is just back from the 2017 Nonprofit Technology conference where most of the mentioned awards were presented. She describes her experiences as Community Organizer for Techsoup and NTEN at the conference.

        The NTEN Award went to Emily Weinberg, The NTEN Lifetime Achievement award went to Yesenia Sotelo, the first guest of our podcast, in episode 5. The next award was the DoGooder Awards for nonprofit video storytelling. Also presented at NTC the Antonio Pizzigati Prize to Taylor Downs, And the Care2 Impact Award to Grey2K. The Rob Stuart Memorial award went to Mother Jones. And Classy announced their Finalist for the innovation award.

        Listen in and learn about the outstanding people of the nonprofit technology community and the organizations they serve. Below are all the links for more information.

        Techsoup
        • Netsquared
        • Start a new group!
          • NTEN Communities & Nonprofit Tech Clubs
          • Online Communities
          • Local Groups: Nonprofit Tech Clubs
          • Start a group or become a co-organizer in an existing group
            • Awards at #17NTC
            NTEN Award
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              • 18 min
            • Episode #15 Data Security and Tech Updates

              In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley discuss the latest Tech Updates and begin to address data security including protecting your computer and mobile devices, and then a little about WordPress security.

              Birgit starts with describing the Cloudflare bug which affected many of us. She then describes how a vulnerable WordPress plugin, NextGEN Gallery, affected millions of users worldwide. This past week Sucuri published an article about a serious SQL injection and recommended that users immediately update their plugin. Matt Mullenweg offered some suggestions about WordPress security this past week. Last week Birgit co-hosted a WordPress Meetup which featured Chris Wiegman, an expert on WordPress security, the full presentation is shown below.

              Jim and Birgit then discuss the first security issue of the day as faced by a user: passwords. Since a computer can be programmed to guess a password 1,000 times a second the time for difficult to figure out passwords has passed and difficult to crash passwords are now the best idea. They then discuss two-factor authorization (2FA) and why that is a significant advantage to one who is protecting their data.

              On Password Entropy

              20 min
            • Episode #14: Using EditFlow in WordPress Publishing with Our Guest Jeff Chandler, WPTavern

              In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Jim O’Reilley have a casual discussion with Jeff Chandler of WPTavern.

              After welcoming Jeff, Birgit asked about how he got started with WordPress and then WPTavern. Jeff speaks about how he was blogging using a different Content Management System, Joomla, but began looking for another CMS with better features for him. He tried WordPress once and continued his search, and then came back to WordPress.

              Birgit asked about how he and his colleague, Sara Gooding, find topics to write about. Jeff says that he follows over 50 RSS streams and also uses Feedly and Google Alerts to see what is fresh out there. Internally some of the tools utilized by this two-person publishing team are Telegram, Slack, and Facebook Messenger.

              Jeff then takes our listeners through quite a thorough description of how they use EditFlow as a collaborative tool to improve productivity. Birgit encourages him to discuss the reaction to a negative piece he wrote a while back on EditFlow, and how the EditFlow team took his criticism to heart and created some changes in the plugin.

              Finally, he was asked about what WordPress has in store for 2017. Although not committing to 2017, Jeff  as a writer has high anticipation on what a revampt of the  WordPress’ Editor will bring.

              Our audience will learn quite a bit about EditFlow and WPTavern in this episode. Please don’t hesitate to provide us with your comments and suggestions.

              EditFlow Resources
              • EditFlow in WordPress Plugin Repository
              • EditFlow Website with more information and documentation
              • EditFlow on Github
                • Other Tools for Collaboration and Curation
                • 31 min

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                Podcast on topics around websites, donor management, online communication and other technology topics for nonprofit organizations and their leadership. Hosts: Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) & Jim…