About the meetup
We had lovely weather for our meetup at the Frick Pittsburgh on May 2! The grounds at the Frick are so gorgeous at this time of year. We thank Lynn, Linda and the Frick staff for hosting us!
Our meetup group will take a break for June and July, and resume meeting on August 1 at Jewish Residential Services in Rodef Shalom Congregation in Shadyside. In the meantime, enjoy your summer!
Joe and Rosemary won this month’s giveaways – an NTEN t-shirt and NTEN shoestrings!
Here are the notes and resources from the meetup:
- Website security
- Cloudflare – flexible SSL and has “I’m under attack mode” in case too many bot hits or hacking attempts
- Wordfence for WordPress sites
- Encrypted Emails
- Can attach an SSL certificate to Exchange Server (for Outlook)
- Barracuda – hardware device that is put on the network behind the firewall to scan for spam, viruses, etc.; has an annual renewal and replacement fee associated with it
- RPC over HTTPS – encryption over public wi-fi; also lets devices attach and connect to Exchange Server without using a virtual private network (VPN)
- YouTube Video: How to Encrypt Mail in Outlook (Thanks, Johna!)
- Microsoft article on how to get a Digital ID or certificate (for MS Office Suite) (Thanks, Johna!)
- Penetration Testing
- Companies that do vulnerability testing
- Is fairly expensive
- Office Phone Systems
- Handsets vs. wireless?
- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) – phone calls go over the Internet connection; server not required
- Google Voice as an alternative
- Vendors who provide this service
- Phone systems
- 7-10 years is typical phone system lifecycle
- Vendors can typically work on phone systems remotely and securely
- Converting Apple software files to PC format
- OpenOffice.org (does iOS and Office formats)
- Slideshare (for slide decks)
- CRM Upgrade
- Raiser’s Edge is nearly double in price now, so folks asking for alternatives
- Other CRMs
- Salesforce
- Neon CRM
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Little Green Light
- CampaignerCRM (formerly Landslide CRM)
- Salsa Labs (was DonorPro)
- Crowdsourced notes from the Nonprofit Technology Conference breakout session entitled “Attention CRM Shoppers”
- Google Admin for G-Suite
- Someone having trouble getting non-employee/resource-based calendars to show up
- Google for Nonprofits meetup group
- Google nonprofit support
- WordPress Gutenberg Upgrade
- No exact date set yet, but supposed to be coming soon
- Watch make.wordpress.org for details and announcements
- Can install the Gutenberg plugin to test drive the new block level editing functionality
We met this month at ACHIEVA in the South Side. Thank you to Steve, Nicole and Dave for hosting us! We’ll be back at ACHIEVA for November’s meetup.
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