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In part 2, Steve and Kyle answer questions from the audience and dig a little more into migrations consideration and whether you truly need to migrate hundreds of photos from the 2011 gala. Can SharePoint function as a digital asset manager?  Do you have questions about file sharing and collaboration at your nonprofit?  Do you use Microsoft 365? If you use Teams to share files with colleagues, you...

Do you have questions about file sharing and collaboration at your nonprofit?  Do you use Microsoft 365? If you use Teams to share files with colleagues, you use SharePoint. Have you been confused about SharePoint in the past? Sometimes SharePoint training can be overwhelming. SharePoint can also be over-built and overly complicated for the basic user. Here is a basic article on how file sharing w...

Community IT CEO Johan Hammerstrom and CTO Matt Eshleman presented a new webinar hosted by Nonprofit Hub on these tips and trends. The nonprofit community has been going full speed and above and beyond over the past 2 years. In the midst of enormous changes and upheaval, we hope this webinar on using technology to deliver for your constituents will put your organization in a good place to grow and...

Community IT CEO Johan Hammerstrom and CTO Matt Eshleman presented a new webinar hosted by Nonprofit Hub on these tips and trends. The nonprofit community has been going full speed and above and beyond over the past 2 years. In the midst of enormous changes and upheaval, we hope this webinar on using technology to deliver for your constituents will put your organization in a good place to grow and...

Part 2 of this webinar.  Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard from Lockton Companies, addresses the question of knowing how much insurance to purchase, benchmarks and methods that insurance companies use to evaluate coverage options, and finishes up with a discussion of next steps for your nonprofit. Do you have questions about cyber insurance for your nonprofit?  Have you been asked to demonstrate IT control...

Join Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard from Lockton Companies, Matt Eshleman, CTO, and Carolyn Woodard from Community IT for a free expert Q&A on Cyber Insurance for Nonprofits, how the market is changing, and how to understand your application and controls and ensure you have the appropriate coverage. Do you have questions about cyber insurance for your nonprofit?  Have you been asked to demonstrate I...

Today Carolyn talks with David Dawson, Senior Engineer, who has been with Community IT for 21 years.  David is a Senior Engineer working with the help desk escalation support team. In this interview, he takes us back to the beginnings of Community IT in a time when "everyone did everything" and how the culture and character of Community IT as a B-corp business has grown over time.  David...

In part 2 of this panel discussion, join Build Consulting’s development, fundraising, operations, and CRM experts, who offer ideas and answer audience questions on how to take your donor data management to the next level in this “Ask the Experts” webinar. We’re going to tackle some questions about wealth screening, what qualities make a good database administrator and when you might want to outsou...

Join Build Consulting’s development, fundraising, operations, and CRM experts, who offer ideas and answer audience questions on how to take your donor data management to the next level in this “Ask the Experts” webinar. This webinar is appropriate for nonprofit executives, managers and nonprofit IT personnel – and as with all our webinars, it is appropriate for a varied audience. After this podcas...

In Part 2, Norwin Herrera and Carolyn Woodard from Community IT dig deeper into the case study and discussion of managing Google Workspace and Office 365 together at the Social Justice School , a start up public charter school in Washington DC. You don’t need to work with an education nonprofit to benefit from this discussion, if you are considering a cloud-based hybrid set up! Google Workspace is...

In part 1, Norwin Herrera and Carolyn Woodard from Community IT discuss these two powerful platforms and how they compare. They present a case study on managing Google Workspace and Office 365 together at the Social Justice School , a start up public charter school in Washington DC. You don’t need to work with an education nonprofit to benefit from this discussion, if you are considering a cloud-b...

In Part 2, Community IT CTO Matt Eshleman and Carole Melvin, Senior Manager at Your Part Time Controller (YPTC) go deeper into spoofs and scams your staff may encounter, and answer questions on security on different platforms, in a new free webinar on preventing financial fraud at your nonprofit hosted by the Nonprofit Learning Lab Their presentation covers the financial threats that face nonprofi...

Community IT CTO Matt Eshleman and Carole Melvin, Senior Manager at Your Part Time Controller (YPTC) presented a new free webinar on preventing financial fraud at your nonprofit hosted by the Nonprofit Learning Lab Their presentation covers the financial threats that face nonprofit organizations and the steps you can take to protect your nonprofit from financial fraud. Matt and Carole give an over...

Carolyn talks with Saba Gebru about her role as Director of Service Operations. Like many Community IT employees, Saba learned about Community IT as a client, while she was working at the Ethiopian Community Development Council and assisting refugee resettlement. As she had an aptitude for working with technology and with people, she was able to turn her passion for nonprofits into a career in non...

In Part 2 of this webinar, Steve Longenecker, Director of IT Consulting, and Carolyn Woodard do a deeper dive into one aspect of working in Google Workspace; the way Google handles shared files and in particular the new Shared Drive option. Steve walks through an example with some technical detail on migrating to Shared Drives and what the options for the super admin and the regular level user are...

Join Steve Longenecker, Director of IT Consulting, and Carolyn Woodard for a discussion of all things Google Workspace for nonprofits. Do you use Google Workspace? It is rapidly becoming a very common IT platform for nonprofits and a viable alternative to Microsoft Office365.  Maybe you are considering switching to Google Workspace?  Or perhaps you have some staff, clients, or volunteers who prefe...

In Part 2,  Carolyn, Will, and Rick discuss in more depth the changes that hybrid offices and flexible space bring to office moves and specifically to the IT support in the new office. William Maxwell and Rick Alloway are senior engineers at Community IT with decades of experience planning and overseeing office moves. Learn what IT considerations you need to take and how offices have changed since...

In Part 1, Join Carolyn Woodard as she interviews William Maxwell and Rick Alloway, senior engineers at Community IT with decades of experience planning and overseeing office moves. Learn what IT considerations you need to take and how offices have changed since the pandemic started.  One of the biggest projects you may ever have to manage working in a nonprofit is an office move. The people, the...

In Part 2, Join Pat Sprehe, Carolyn Woodard, and Sarah Wolfe for a review and discussion of basic IT management and the foundations of nonprofit IT support that all nonprofit organizations must invest in before moving on to implementing new or innovative IT. They share insights from over 20 years supporting nonprofits into when to take a chance and innovate, and when to invest in the IT basics fir...

Part 1: Join Pat Sprehe, Carolyn Woodard, and Sarah Wolfe for insights from over 20 years supporting nonprofits into when to take a chance and innovate, and when to invest in the IT basics first. For every success story you hear about an innovative new app or technique that a nonprofit used to change their sector, you probably know dozens of nonprofits with “big idea” tech projects that didn’t del...

Part 2 of a conversation from Sarah Wolfe and panelists presented at the NTEN NTC conference in March 2022. Centered around their diverse journeys to success, this session with four leaders celebrated bright spots of successful inclusion and cultivation of diversity in nonprofit technology, as well as sharing advice for the individual and the organization for thriving on the road ahead. Whether yo...

Sarah Wolfe and panelists presented a conversation at the NTEN NTC conference in March 2022. Centered around their diverse journeys to success, this session with four leaders celebrated bright spots of successful inclusion and cultivation of diversity in nonprofit technology, as well as sharing advice for the individual and the organization for thriving on the road ahead. Whether you come from an...

Are you afraid to think about cybersecurity basics for your nonprofits needs?  Are you an “accidental techie” – tasked with keeping the IT running at your nonprofit even though you don’t *really have an IT background? *at all Wondering where to start building a case for cybersecurity basics to your nonprofit executives and board? Join Community IT CTO Matt Eshleman and Sales Manager Sarah Wolfe in...

Part 2 - Join CTO and Nonprofit Cybersecurity expert Matthew Eshleman as he presents data from the fourth annual Community IT Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report. This report looks at the different types of attacks that occurred in 2021 at small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations in our network. Using real data, Matt tracks trends in cybersecurity attacks and gives your organization tips on...

Join CTO and Nonprofit Cybersecurity expert Matthew Eshleman as he presents data from the fourth annual Community IT Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report. This report looks at the different types of attacks that occurred in 2021 at small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations in our network. Using real data, Matt tracks trends in cybersecurity attacks and gives your organization tips on how to r...