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Technology Risk Management

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Given most organizations have limited time and resources, many may not fully appreciate the need for assessment and planning. However, technology affects employment practices, volunteer recruitment, fundraising, crisis management, copyright, security, privacy, client protection and insurance coverage, by putting in place processes to reduce or eliminate the risk, we can lessen the potential impact to the organization.

In short, technology risk management is essentially loss management. When a hard drive containing all of the donor data, grant funding information, or financials crashes and there are no backups available, the time and resource required to re-build/recover the information would be devastating to an organization.

TechSoup Canada RoadShow: Edmonton, Alberta

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River Rally 2009

TechSoup Canada had the great opportunity to be a part of of River Rally 2009, sponsored by Alberta Ecotrust. The River Rally is a capacity building conference for watershed stewardship groups in Alberta. The conference offered a variety of workshops on how to communicate with impact, and ways to leverage volunteers and money. In addition, it was a great opportunity for organizations to network and learn from each other.

Online Storytelling — How to Plan & Produce a Compelling Video

Does your organization have great stories to tell — but lack the skills required to plan and produce compelling videos to post online?

Last week’s Toronto Net Tuesday was all about using video to communicate your stories to the world.

Once Upon A Time: Storytelling in Online Media

This week, TechSoup was a proud participant in My Charity Connects, a conference about teaching charities about using online technology to improve their fundraising and marketing. Donnie Claudino, TechSoup’s Marketing Manage, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media.

Work Gets Easier When You’re Living on a Cloud

Have you heard the term "cloud computing" and wondered what all the hype is about? Many similar-but-slightly different definitions exist but in a technical sense, it's a style of computing where services and platforms are delivered to users over the Internet; organizations can stop worrying about installing or managing software locally.

But besides some of the obvious administration advantages, what can this new paradigm mean for non-profits?

Get Green and Save Money

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Today’s non-profits operate against the backdrop of two major global challenges: climate change and the financial crisis. Can green solutions help non-profits stay afloat financially?

This month’s Net Tuesday tackled this question with a panel of representatives from Carbonzero, the David Suzuki Foundation, and TechSoup Canada.

Focus on 'Green'

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At TechSoup Canada we are committed to providing resources to help you create 'greener' workplaces, increase employee productivity and retention, and reduce operational cost.

GreenTech Challenge events:

To Twitter or not?

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Is Twitter a big deal?

You might be interested in learning more about Twitter after hearing that David Miller, the mayor of Toronto is 'tweeting' with fellow Torontonians, about the location of potholes.

TechSoup Canada featured in Financial Post

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On March 13th, 2009--TechSoup Canada was featured in the Financial Post, in an article entitled, "Philanthropy, the high-tech way." [http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1388023.]

Jane Zhang, program director of TechSoup Canada, Tonya Surman, executive director of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI,) and Gavin Thompson, director of corporate citizenship at Microsoft Canada--were interviewed, and quoted in the article.
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