Cross-Posted From Nonprofit Jobs Looking for a nonprofit job in sunny Atlanta, GA? The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) has just the position for you. Effective immediately, SEF is looking for a highly motivated candidate to fill its brand new Higher Education Research and Policy Analyst role. This position is being created to help expand SEF’s ability to conduct... (more...)
Despite a push for change, the Manassas City Councils has decided to stick with its current method of funding nonprofit and arts groups. The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Council voted unanimously to keep its current funding method rather than switch to another that is used in Prince William County. That system appoints a citizen panel to make recommendations on which nonprofit... (more...)
O&O AutoBackup (free in January 2012; $30 with a 30-day free trial starting in February 2012) is a generally easy-to-use backup program with one feature especially handy for frequent users of external drives. It will back up any data you choose, automatically, without user intervention, when you insert a removable drive you’ve defined as the repository for your backup. That’s a neat... (more...)
Google’s decision this week to share user data across its online services has caught the attention of eight members of the US House of Representatives, with the lawmakers asking whether the changes will compromise privacy. Read More →
At the National Retail Federation’s annual convention,Retail’s BIG Show 2012, Epicor debuted its latest mobile offering: the Epicor Retail Clienteling application. It is an add-on for Epicor’s existing CRM app, said Dave Burton, product director of CRM services — meaning a retailer has to be an Epicor customer to use it. However, the app comes with a few additional features... (more...)
The European Parliament’s website fell under a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) on Thursday in what the organisation classified as retaliation for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site and an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. Read More →
Today’s end-of-the-week roundup begins with a quiz and ends with a quickie update on OneWire, a clever, and certainly — as an investment report says — intriguing take on candidate matching. So let’s get on with it: Guess who says they want to grow their influence at the top corporate levels? HR you say? Sorry, not the answer we were looking for. The answer comes from MarketingCharts,... (more...)
I had that singsong experience again yesterday while (phone) sourcing. What’s the singsong experience? It’s when a Gatekeeper starts offering information, in a continuous pattern, to your request. Don’t misunderstand — I had spent several hours sourcing into a particular entertainment company with very little — almost none — success. Several hours. Admittedly, the customer said... (more...)
Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called Zulu that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analysing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses. Read More →
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to develop an application that can track the public’s postings to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, in order to aid how it predicts and reacts to criminal behaviour, including public disorder and terrorism. Read More →
