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In this webinar Steve Longenecker and Johanny Torrico will cover some of the steps we take before we begin an implementation project. Community IT Innovators has been helping clients move their file collaboration functions from on-premise file servers to cloud services for some time now, and we do recommend SharePoint. However, we’ve executed SharePoint implementations flawlessly (technically) only to have them fail for nontechnical reasons. Our SharePoint process has come to feel like an un-sales process, as we go over the cons as well as the pros.

This FiveThirtyEight article today struck me as highly relevant to our nonprofit tech community, especially as we explore moving data and documents online and to the cloud. Many of our clients and partners are chasing data that either drives their work or backs up their achievements – much of it shallow and often scarce. Do you have a good handle on where the essential data crucial to your organization lives, who has access to it, and who controls it?

Learn how to maximize new Windows 10 features for your organization with our next free Webinar March 17th from 4-5pm EDT. Community IT Senior Engineer Galen Wenger will share with you what we’ve learned from six months of successful upgrades, including tips from our clients on new and better security, automation that will save you time and hassle, and new branding options.

By now there’s little disagreement, at least in principle, about the value of diversity, and there’s plenty of great conversation out there about how to make more diverse hires. But working with organizations of all sizes, I still see little real understanding about how to organize internally in order to benefit from diversity. – Amy Sample Ward, Fast Company

Community IT March 2016 News recommending 16NTC NTEN nonprofit technology conference, links to February webinar sides, and a preview of March webinar on Windows 10

A middle-aged person in 2050 who was born in the 1990s, … grew up during the fastest-ever period of technological change. They saw computers speed up by a factor of fifty between 1990 and 2000, before shedding pounds and morphing into portable, pocket-sized marvels. – The Atlantic

Whether you are a marketing director looking to improve your digital communications campaigns, a nonprofit leader hoping to find tools to develop technology strategy, or an “accidental techie” in a small but mighty organization, the 16NTC is your unique opportunity to gain tools to more efficiently further social change.

In the slides and recording from this webinar Matt Eshleman and Steve Longenecker walk through the approaches available to nonprofits, discussing pros and cons, particularly as they relate to the size and function of the organization.

Community IT Senior Engineer Galen Wenger shares all of the knowledge Community IT has gained over six months of implementing Windows 10 upgrades. Learn how to maximize the value of Windows 10 for your nonprofit, including automation, security improvements, branding and other customization features.

Passwords are already one of the least secure protections we have available to us. There’s every chance you’re bad at them to begin with, and the more people who have the key to your alphanumerical digital lock, the more potentially exposed you become -WIRED