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WordPress, the enormously popular Content Management System, is supported by a collection of tools and practices aimed at enhancing its security. But secure is a relative term and while those tools and practices can help make WordPress more secure than its default installation, cybersecurity professionals still cringe at the thought of using it on high-security […]
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Using FTP to transfer files from one environment to another is a long-standing process. But when the destination for a file transfer is a server residing in a private subnet, one must get around the inability to connect directly to it over the Internet. This article describes how to easily accommodate doing this, but first, […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Other
It will happen a couple times each year. I’ll hear from a prospective client about how they tried to save a buck by forcing an election through one of the many survey tools on the market and things did not end well. Elections are serious business and administering one is not to be taken lightly […]
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Election administration is the process of setting up the ballot; ensuring candidate biographical information, when applicable, is loaded into the system; associating a voter roster with the election; testing the setup to ensure everything works as expected; running the election; and retrieving the results at the end. The occasional prospective client will sometimes approach Skypunch to […]
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I received a phone call recently from a prospective client who said her association tried online voting the previous year using a system built by internal IT staff, but with their IT services now fully outsourced, and that IT staffer now a former employee, they no longer had access to that system and were shopping […]
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ElectionsOnline serves a very broad base of clients including professional and trade associations, educational institutions, community groups, businesses and much more. In other words, while online voting software is a very narrowly focused service, the client base is quite horizontal and spans a broad spectrum. Before going further, let’s make sure this concept of a […]
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You conduct a mass mailing and a certain percentage of emails go undelivered because they simply don’t exist. This is normal, but you may be wondering if that percentage is within a normal range when compared to other organizations. To answer the question, I looked at week-by-week statistics for the percentage of emails that were […]
Categorized as: Company News, Other
On this Earth Day, what more appropriate topic but then to go into Skypunch’s involvement with 1% for the Planet? Since 2006 Skypunch has been a proud member of 1% for the Planet, but that membership is really just a conduit for a very special relationship that exists between Skypunch and the Ernie Nester Chapter […]
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Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are used by organizations to do as their name implies, and request a proposal from a vendor for goods or services. I’ve had extensive experience with them as a result of having more than eleven years experience providing election services combined with more than thirteen years experience working inside a non-profit […]
