Latest Community it podcast Podcast Episodes
Making IT Governance Work for Your Nonprofit pt 1
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - May 17, 2024 18:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPt 1 Covers policy definitions and priority policies, a process to create or revise your policies, and 2 polls. Pt 2 covers implementation, overcoming barriers to this project, and Q&A. For templates: Free Resources for Building IT Policies at Nonprofits has a ton of links for you. Community ...
3 AI Impacts on Cybersecurity at Nonprofits
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - May 10, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat are the main ways AI impacts nonprofit cybersecurity risks? Social engineering, trust, and data risks are the three big areas where AI will have impacts on cybersecurity at nonprofits that you need to be aware of. Whether or not your organization is using AI, these are areas where hackers...
Cybersecurity Updates for Nonprofits
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - May 03, 2024 19:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow to Protect Your Organization Against New Threats Following the 2024 Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report, Carolyn sat down with Matt Eshleman, our Chief Technology Officer and cybersecurity expert, and José Antonio Peña-Rosales, our Director of Support Services, to talk about what users ...
2024 Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report pt 2
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - April 26, 2024 20:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCommunity IT CTO and cybersecurity expert Matt Eshleman delivers our report on trend lines and took questions live in this popular webinar. In pt 2 Matt goes into the report data and pulls out new and disturbing attacks, and finishes up with the best ways to protect yourself, especially from At...
2024 Nonprofit Cybersecurity Incident Report pt 1
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - April 19, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCommunity IT CTO and cybersecurity expert Matt Eshleman delivers our report on trend lines and took questions live in this popular webinar. In pt 1 we explore a systematic approach to cybersecurity for your nonprofit, talk about the big picture trends, take a couple of audience polls on what ty...
Growing Your Nonprofit With Google Workspace
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - April 12, 2024 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow can your nonprofit avoid common headaches with the free Google Workspace implementation as you grow? So many small nonprofits start out using the free Google Workspace platform you can set up and administer yourself. Google makes it easy! But as you grow from a one- or two-person nonprofit...
Nonprofit AI Framework pt 2
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - April 05, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEthics, AI Tools, and Policies. How is Your Philanthropy Using AI? Part 1 of this podcast introduced basic AI concepts and definitions and gave some practical examples of nonprofits very intentionally using AI to further their mission. It ended with results of a poll of the audience members an...
Nonprofit AI Framework pt 1
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - March 29, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEthics, AI Tools, and Policies. How is Your Philanthropy Using AI? Community IT was thrilled to welcome two respected leaders, Sarah Di Troia from Project Evident and Jean Westrick from Technology Association of Grantmakers, who shared their informed perspective on AI in philanthropy to share t...
Email Safety and Spam
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - March 22, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow to Protect Your Inbox and Your Sanity Are you getting more unwelcome email lately? From junk emails, to annoying advertising, to malicious phishing, it can feel like the tools that keep our inboxes spam free aren’t working as well lately. Johan Hammerstrom, our CEO, answers Carolyn’s quest...
Assessments and IT Maturity
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - March 15, 2024 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDo you know if you are in technology debt or investing at the right level in your nonprofit IT? Senior Consultant Nura Aboki sat down with Carolyn Woodard recently and discussed his work as a senior consultant and the strategic responses he sees as the most successful across his clients. You ca...
AI and Cybersecurity for Nonprofits
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - March 08, 2024 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin Matt Eshleman, a cybersecurity expert, in a short presentation on AI, new AI tools for nonprofits, some use cases, things to watch out for, new cybersecurity fraud and scams enabled by AI, and ways to protect your organization. In this video, you will learn to Learn about AI and what non...
Nonprofit Digital Health Workshop pt 2
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - March 01, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGuest speaker Tim Lockie from The Human Stack in a workshop focused on smaller nonprofits struggling to manage IT. In pt 1, Tim describes the tactical issues nonprofits face in trying to work with tech tools. In pt 2, Tim walks through the different mis-alignments that leadership and "boots on ...
Nonprofit Digital Health Workshop pt 1
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - February 23, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGuest speaker Tim Lockie from The Human Stack in a workshop focused on smaller nonprofits struggling to manage IT. In pt 1, Tim describes the tactical issues nonprofits face in trying to work with tech tools. In pt 2, Tim walks through the different mis-alignments that leadership and "boots on ...
Being Strategic About Nonprofit Tech with Johan Hammerstrom
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - February 16, 2024 19:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsExcerpts from CEO Johan Hammerstrom's appearance on a panel hosted by NXUnite on strategic nonprofit tech decision making. Full video and transcript available on our site: https://communityit.com/panel-dialing-in-being-strategic-about-nonprofit-tech/ Nonprofit organizations often grapple with...
Community IT Voices: Jennifer Huftalen, Director of Client Services
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - February 09, 2024 23:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday Carolyn interviews Jenny Huftalen, Director of Client Services on her new role and long history with Community IT. Jenny has been providing Account Management services for Community IT’s partner organizations since 2007. Now as Director of Client Services, she is responsible for ensuring...
Talking To Your MSP Managed Service Provider
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - February 02, 2024 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow to Communicate to Create a Great Relationship Community IT gets this type of question a lot from nonprofits in our community: My MSP doesn’t talk to me about what they are doing and why their rates have gone up. How can I talk to them to understand what they are doing, when I don’t have a t...
Nonprofit Tech Round Table 2024 pt 2 - Cybersecurity, Platforms, and Hybrid Work Tools
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - January 26, 2024 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPart 2 explores cybersecurity, Google Workspace v Office365 for nonprofits, and hybrid work considerations. In Part 1 our panel discussed AI and the impacts of new AI tools and considerations on nonprofits. We also released a free new AI Acceptable Use Policy Template for nonprofits. Join CTO...
Nonprofit Tech Round Table 2024 pt 1 - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - January 19, 2024 20:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow is your organization using AI? What policies do you need? Join CTO Matthew Eshleman, Director of IT Consulting Steve Longenecker, and IT Business Manager Team Lead Norwin Herrera, moderated by Carolyn Woodard from Community IT, in part 1 of a lively and specific discussion of all things no...
Community IT Voices: Bill Evans, Retiring CFO
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - January 12, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn today’s interview, Carolyn talks with Bill Evans, who is retiring as CFO after 14 years. After a long career at Verizon where he held both operations and finance roles, Bill realized he was ready for a new challenge, and started looking around for a nonprofit where he could assist with his f...
Prepping Files to Migrate Them
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - January 05, 2024 20:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRobin Harris is a Cloud Technologies Specialist at Community IT. She primarily works with clients who are moving files into SharePoint, from a server, from another cloud-based file sharing service like Dropbox or Google Drive, or creating a file sharing database for the first time. Today she sh...
Community IT Voices: Top Nonprofit Tech Stories of 2023
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - December 29, 2023 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat topics should we expect to be important next year? In a New Year’s Eve tradition, Carolyn asked Community IT senior staff to weigh in on the most important and/or under-reported tech stories that impact nonprofit technology. While many of these stories are not under-reported, widely repor...
Nonprofits, AI, and Cybersecurity
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - December 22, 2023 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMatt Eshleman, Community IT CTO and cybersecurity expert, sat down with Carolyn recently to discuss what he's hearing about and expecting from AI in the upcoming year. In his role as CTO he interacts with all of our clients and also plays a foundational role in adopting new technologies internal...
Creating and Updating IT Policies
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - December 15, 2023 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCarolyn Woodard sat down with Senior Consultant Nura Aboki recently and asked “What’s the most pressing question you are seeing from your mid-market clients around nonprofit IT needs?” Nura quickly answered: Policies. Astonishingly, many larger nonprofits he works with either don’t have basi...
Community IT Voices: Erik Fernandez, IT Business Manager
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - December 08, 2023 21:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn today’s interview, Carolyn talks with Erik Fernandez, who is an IT Business Manager at Community IT and has been with us for nine years. IT Business Managers are a unique aspect of account management at Community IT. They have senior technical expertise but also business and strategic knowl...
Manage Printers in a Nonprofit Office
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - December 01, 2023 19:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsManage Printers in a Nonprofit Office So many of us are working from home, but when you do come in to the office, there are some IT networked items you need, like A/V and printing. The big challenge with printers in our hybrid work environment is how to make them easily accessible to staff ...
Thoughtful Tech Tool Selection for Nonprofit Impact pt 2
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - November 25, 2023 02:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn part 2, Join Gillian Knight from Healthy Communities Foundation for a case study presentation on one of the tools they decided to use for their grant-making process, Asana. She also takes audience Q&A on the process they used to increase equity in their reporting requirements and process. ...
Thoughtful Tech Tool Selection for Nonprofit Impact pt 1
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - November 17, 2023 20:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin Gillian Knight from Healthy Communities Foundation for a case study presentation on the process they used to increase equity in their grant-making process and reporting. After an assessment and listening, they identified technology tools that could help them refine their work flow and dec...
12 Questions for Nonprofit to Vet a Managed Services Provider (MSP)
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - November 11, 2023 18:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings“Managed services” can mean different things to different people, especially when you are just embarking on a quest to find a provider. To understand what you need, what a provider is offering – and whether they’ll be able to deliver – Community IT Innovators developed a list of basic questions ...
12 Questions for Nonprofits to Vet a Managed Services Provider (MSP)
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - November 11, 2023 18:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings“Managed services” can mean different things to different people, especially when you are just embarking on a quest to find a provider. To understand what you need, what a provider is offering – and whether they’ll be able to deliver – Community IT Innovators developed a list of basic questions ...
Community IT Voices: Pat Sprehe, Director of Information Systems and Technology
Community IT Innovators Nonprofit Technology Topics - November 03, 2023 22:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn today’s interview, Carolyn talks with Pat Sprehe, who recently was promoted from managing the IT Business Manager team to Director of the internal Information Systems and Technology at Community IT. This is a new position and an example of the ways at Community IT if you see a need, there’s a...
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