Building Better Communities Through Technology

The T4T Community Calendar June has only 30 days this year, and some of our classes have already filled up. Quantities are limited, so check the Calendar and sign up before we run out of spacetime.

Volunteer Spotlight on Tricia Haas If you are an MS Office user, and, like many of us, know just enough to get into trouble, then we'd like to introduce you to some of the brilliant volunteers at our software training program. Tricia Haas is one of the generous volunteers who are experts in their fields and willing to share their knowledge and skills with us.

Nutritious Rice for the World Recently, volunteers on the World Community Grid started crunching the numbers on a new project. Nutritious Rice for the World is an ambitious and long-term project to help farmers breed better rice strains. Currently, farmers can only select for traits that are readily apparent. The Nutritious Rice research team hopes to be able to place biological markers that would allow farmers to breed rice with more complicated traits, such as nutritional content or the ability to thrive in different environments.

Better Organization through Document Management Systems Organizations today are floating in a virtual sea of documents. Once upon a time, this ocean was limited to computer files and printed documents, but these days we must also keep track of the information we email, broadcast, publish online, collaborate on, compare, and present. Learn how DMSs can help you navigate these waters more efficiently.

Cover Your Own Backup There are many things in this world that we don’t want to think about, things like insurance and taxes, that are just inevitable. On that list for most people is computer back-up and recovery. In order to help you sleep at night, this article discusses considerations and options for keeping your nonprofit up and running in the event of data loss or a complete hard drive loss.