BarCamp Chippewa
Submitted by shanson on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 3:03pm.
We're interested in the possibility of holding a BarCamp event in the Chippewa Valley. Currently we are looking for people in Western Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota who would be interested in participating/sponsoring/organizing. If you fall into that category, please get in touch, or read the article at
http://www.chippewaguide.com/node/1345
Wisconsin Nonprofit Association Summit
Submitted by shanson on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 3:00pm.
06/10/2008 - 9:00am
06/10/2008 - 4:00pm
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC will be exhibiting at the WNA Summit
Additionally, I will be presenting one of the sessions (in fact, the only technology session at the conference). I will be speaking about the effective use of the Internet for nonprofit communications. Sign up.
What Does Cruiskeen Consulting Do?
What Can Cruiskeen Consulting Do For You?
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC is a general Internet consulting company based in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
We offer a wide range of services. Some examples include:
- Web Design - Let us design your web site, including features that will let you and your readers manipulate content on the site yourselves. Enter into the Web 2.0 world. We can provide complex database-driven web sites that are nonetheless simple to update and manage. Take a look at some of our web designs. We specialize in highly interactive, easily-maintainable web sites for nonprofits, political groups, and small businesses. We are particularly involved in building on-line communities and self-service directories of all types.
- Web Hosting - we host complex Internet applications, as well as simple web sites. We own our own farm of web servers in a first-class hosting environment with redundant Internet connections. We're not a cheap generic web host - we can work with you to meet customized needs and to host applications for you. You get a real, local person to call, with 24-hour emergency paging and site monitoring.
- Email Services - We can host your email at our site, including Spam and Virus filtering, or help you make your own email system work better.
- Backup and Recovery - Let us help you back up your systems effectively, either using our own remote hardware, or setting up your own effective backup system. We will soon also offer a very simple backup facility that will let you automatically back up your own computers to our servers at an extremely low cost. This service will include both Windows and Macintosh computers.
First NetSquared Twin Cities Meeting
Submitted by shanson on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 6:10am.
NetsquaredLast night I attended the first NetSquared Twin Cities meeting. A fine time was had by all, and a lot of us who are working for or with nonprofits in Minnesota (in tech capacities) got to meet each other and talk about what we're doing. I'd like to thank both the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for hosting it, and all of the organizers, particularly Jennifer Sly for getting the whole meetup going in the first place..
New Backup Solution Coming
Submitted by shanson on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 2:00pm.
Imagine being able to back up your local systems automatically, and having it go off-site with no intervention on your part:
- No Tapes
- No remembering to back up
- backups happen from your laptop even while you're traveling
- Backups automatically go to an off-site server
- Your backups also can be saved locally on your own computers so that you can also have fast restores
- Back Up your Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. Desktops, Laptops, and Servers.
- All Data is encrypted before it goes over the network. Nobody can read your data but you.
We're soon going to be offering hosted backup solutions that will let you have all of the above and more. We're working on rolling out the infrastructure. Let us know if you're interested. Our costs will be very competitive.
Spam - You're 30 years old, and you still look Mahvelous!
Submitted by shanson on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 3:49pm.
Spam is 30 years old this month. And still a growing boy. Growing like crazy from looking at our spam filter logs this month. Who would have thought back in that simpler time (and yes, I'm old enough to remember the incident and the outrage it provoked) that one day spam would be pa multi-million dollar business, and would be powered by millions of home PC's that are controlled by spam masters around the Internet.
Scheduled Downtime
Submitted by shanson on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 7:41am.
You may remember the power outage that took down our servers a few weeks ago.
The folks at IPHouse have come to the conclusion that one of the 480V circuit breakers in one of the power distribution units is faulty, and they are going to replace it. Unfortunately, it's the PDU that powers our servers.
Omeka
Submitted by shanson on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 9:18am.
Every so often we stumble across a piece of Open Source software that is really exciting. Omeka is one of those items. It is designed as an Open Source package to allow museums to build interactive web sites and internal displays with a minimum of trouble. It's already being used by quite a few different museums, and looks very promising. It's available for free download, and we're starting to play around with it here. We may offer this as another hosted option, along with Drupal.
What is Twitter?
Submitted by shanson on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 1:20pm.
A video that explains what Twitter is.
TechSoup's Mini Guide to Microsoft Project
Submitted by shanson on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 3:22pm.
Personally, I hate Microsoft Project, but a lot of folks use it, so here you are - some help.
Drupal For Nonprofits
Submitted by shanson on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 3:15pm.
This is the presentation that I will be giving at the MCN Nonprofit Technology Conference this Thursday in Minneapolis.
It briefly outlines the reasons a Nonprofit group might want to use Drupal for its web site.
Creating a Contact Database in Openoffice.Org
Submitted by shanson on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 11:27am.
Google For Nonprofits
Submitted by shanson on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 8:57am.
Google has recently launched a portal for nonprofits called Google for Nonprofits. It explains the use of Google tools for nonprofit groups, and is a good resource for people who are bewildered by the large array of web services that Google now offers. It also includes information on Google Grants and other special services that Google offers to nonprofit groups.
Best Practices for MySpace
List of best practices for Nonprofits using Myspace
