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Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics

Community IT Innovators

Community IT offers free webinars monthly to promote learning within our nonprofit technology community. Our podcast is appropriate for a varied level of technology expertise. Community IT is vendor-agnostic and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Something on your mind you don’t see covered here? Contact us to suggest a topic! http://www.communityit.com

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30:47

Cybersecurity Readiness for Nonprofits Playbook with...

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/10/25

Is your nonprofit struggling to understand cybersecurity fundamentals? Are you unsure what level of protection you need or can afford?October is Cybersecurity month! Community IT Chief Technology Officer Matt Eshleman walked through our revised Playbook on Cybersecurity Readiness for Nonprofits in a webinar designed to get your nonprofit prepped to face cyberliability insurance requirements and ever-evolving threats. Learn the Community IT approach to cybersecurity and how even smal...

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24:04

Data Governance for Nonprofits with Jeff Gibson

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/10/18

Best practices on improving data security, making the case for creating the policies, and the impact of AI on data security.Carolyn speaks with guest Jeff Gibson from Build Consulting to answer questions about why data is important to nonprofits, how your data can get really widely distributed in different tools in different departments, and why it is important to do an audit and assessment to know what data you have. Do you know where your data risks lie? Do you know you are in complian...

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15:27

Tracking Subscriptions Tips for Nonprofits with Pat...

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/10/11

How do you track your subscriptions and licenses? Why is it important to know who has which subscription at your nonprofit? Many clients come to Community IT experiencing difficulty tracking IT inventory. In addition to tracking physical hardware, laptops, and devices, nonprofits also can find it difficult to track licenses and software subscriptions to cloud-based apps and IT tools. The rise in cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) models has led to ease of use. It is really eas...

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22:47

IT Inventory Tips for Nonprofits with Johan Hammerstrom

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/10/04

What do you need to do now to track your inventory? Why do you need to track inventory - and why isn't there a killer app for that yet?A significant number of clients come to Community IT without any inventory tracking at all. Besides being a financial risk this is a clear security risk - especially if you have no system in place to off-board staff who leave your nonprofit but keep their laptop and access to private files and business subscriptions.Why is it so hard to track inventory if you ...

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26:29

Using an IT Skills Matrix with Heather Ritchie pt 2

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/09/27

Have you ever used a skills matrix in IT change management at your nonprofit?In pt 1, Heather describes a typical IT Skills Matrix and how you create one, and responds to audience questions. In podcast part 2, she delves into identifying stakeholders and gives several examples of when and how to use a Skills Matrix to build and empower your team.Do you know your super-users and early adopters? Your champions and ambassadors? Do you know who on your staff will happily and reliably use the tool...

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29:03

Using an IT Skills Matrix with Heather Ritchie pt 1

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/09/20

Have you ever used a skills matrix in IT change management at your nonprofit?Do you know your super-users and early adopters? Your champions and ambassadors? Do you know who on your staff will happily and reliably use the tool exactly as trained vs your staffer who is always looking for new features and finding new shortcuts? Do you know who usually needs a little extra training and review sessions? Who is tech-hesitant, or even tech-phobic? How can you make your IT roll out a success for ALL...

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12:09

Google Tips for Nonprofits with Tiff Parker

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/09/13

Tiff Parker is an expert in Google Workspace support, having used Google Workspace herself throughout her career and developing a practice as an in-house expert to our clients who use Google Workspace. Carolyn asked Tiff for her tips on features to use and things to know about Google Workspace at the office.The takeaways: Know the difference between My Drive and Shared Drives, and set up Shared Drives for anything that you will want access to after a staff member leaves your organization...

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38:46

Managing a Few Macs at Your Nonprofit with Nura Aboki

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/09/06

Senior Consultant Nura Aboki explores best practices on supporting one or two Macs when everyone else is on Windows laptops.Nura and Carolyn discussed the ins and outs of supporting a few staff members and managing a few Macs, whether in a Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace environment. The days of leaving your Mac users to manage their own devices are long gone – current cybersecurity risks require full management of ALL your end users. You might try to get all your staff on the same lap...

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27:01

Nonprofit Tech FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) pt 2

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/08/30

Does your organization struggle to match your IT to your actual business needs? Learn how to right size your IT and get rid of FOMO.In pt 1, Johan, Pat and Carolyn discuss Tech FOMO and the reasons nonprofits are susceptible to feeling it. They ask the webinar audience about their last new tech implementations and explore everyone’s current FOMO, AI. In part 2, Pat walks us through an IT decision making pathway (which you can download below) and Johan answers audience questions.Fear of M...

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31:56

Nonprofit Tech FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) pt 1

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/08/23

Does your organization struggle to match your IT to your actual business needs? Learn how to right size your IT and get rid of FOMO.Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is a natural human condition. And when it comes to technology, shiny new tools and platforms can seem very shiny. Add in tech giants’ large marketing budgets and vendors who pressure you to keep up with the latest and greatest, and you can feel like you constantly need to move to the newer, better solution to get the latest fe...

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23:58

AI Artificial Intelligence at Nonprofits with Matt...

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2024/08/16

The pace of new AI tools and uses on the market is like a rocket. Does your nonprofit have questions about cybersecurity, opting out, or best practices when using AI? Microsoft released a new AI Governance Framework for Nonprofits joining many institutions putting out guidelines and studying the impact of AI on nonprofits and the ways nonprofits are using AI. Many nonprofits are approaching AI very cautiously, or may not have developed policies yet to use AI securely. Or your nonprofit m...

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39:20

Nonprofit Boards and IT Roadmaps with Carolyn Woodard

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2024/08/09

Are you a new board member hoping to help your nonprofit navigate IT management? Do you know what you need to know about IT, cybersecurity, and change management as a board member? Where is your nonprofit on the scale of IT management maturity? In this podcast Marketing Director Carolyn Woodard, who has served as an IT Director at nonprofits in her career, shares best practices and her thoughts on the importance ofsetting prioritieshow to start designing an IT Roadmap from your...

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17:39

Cybersecurity Incident Recovery Plans

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/08/02

Whether or not your nonprofit faced Crowdstrike impacts, the aftermath of a national or worldwide incident is a great time to gather your cybersecurity team and run the exercise: what will your organization do during the next outage or cyber attack? Nonprofit Cybersecurity expert Matt Eshleman shares his thoughts in this podcast on the importance ofreviewing your incident response and business continuity plans regularly, practicing your response regularly – what will you do if a cri...

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22:07

Single Sign On (SSO) for Nonprofits pt 2

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/07/26

In part 2, we discuss Single Sign On (SSO) implementation and roll out, and answer questions from the webinar audience. In part 1, our guests Steve Longenecker and Phil Oswald Christano define SSO and go over what it does and doesn't do. We discuss the unfortunate fact that each app interacts with SSO differently so you have to enable it for each app. However, if you use Google or Microsoft you already have some basic tools to implement SSO.If you have heard about Single Sign On (SSO) and won...

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31:46

Single Sign On (SSO) for Nonprofits pt 1

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/07/19

If you have heard about Single Sign On (SSO) and wondered what it can do for your nonprofit, this webinar explains the concept and examines the ways that SSO can help your organization be more productive and work more safely online.In part 1, our guests Steve Longenecker and Phil Oswald Christano define SSO and go over what it does and doesn't do. We discuss the unfortunate fact that each app interacts with SSO differently so you have to enable it for each app. However, if you use Google or M...

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45:29

Email Protection and Deliverability with Johan...

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/07/12

What do the acronyms SFP, DKIM, and DMARC mean, and why do you need to prove your email is legit?If you have been hearing these terms lately about your email or your cybersecurity liability insurance checklist, and don’t know your DKIM from your DMARC, you aren’t alone! Carolyn sat down with CEO Johan Hammerstrom to demystify the lingo and learn about the latest requirements for ensuring emails from your domain look legit to other inboxes, and how that helps protect your nonprofit now and in ...

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27:07

Is Your Nonprofit a Learning Organization? with Karen...

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/07/05

What does it mean to be a learning organization and how can you grow learning practices at your nonprofit?In pt 1 Karen defined a Learning Organization and explored struggles to embrace learning at your nonprofit. In pt 2 Karen discusses the categories of learning technologies that can help nonprofits organize their learning management, and gave us tips on implementing learning strategies at our organizations.Karen Graham has more than 20 years in senior nonprofit leadership, and a broad know...

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26:18

Is Your Nonprofit a Learning Organization? with Karen...

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/06/28

What does it mean to be a learning organization and how can you grow learning practices at your nonprofit?Karen Graham has more than 20 years in senior nonprofit leadership, and a broad knowledge of trends and best practices in technology, leadership, and organizational development. Formerly head of Idealware, a research institution studying nonprofits’ use of technology, Karen has long observed there are some nonprofits that have a strong internal learning culture, and she sees benefits to those

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19:50

Community IT Innovators Voices: Vince Grady, CFO

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/06/23

In today’s interview, Carolyn talks with Vince Grady, the new Community IT Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who is 8 months into the job. Vince and Carolyn discuss his roundabout path to the CFO role, and how a diversity of backgrounds is common at Community IT and valued as one of our strengths – not all our employees have followed a typical path and that helps us connect with our nonprofit clients who often also have non-conventional backgrounds, education, and careers.Vince also comments on t...

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22:36

Fighting Financial Fraud

Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics ·

2024/06/14

Listen to this conversation with Carole Melvin from Your Part Time Controller (YPTC) and catch up on the current thinking on preventing financial fraud as scams seem to multiply all around us in our jobs at nonprofits.Learn what new frauds and scams are evolving and how to protect yourself and your nonprofit. Some key takeaways:Cultivate a healthy dose of skepticism and use common sense. Utilize analog and off-line verification best practices. Stay curious and aware of new threats.&...

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