Bits: Discussion on Spam; a Human-Rights Course; and an Online Journal

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

January 23, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

TechSoup will hold an online discussion, “Scammers and Spammers,” on its Web site January 27-31. Among the topics to be discussed: ways to curb unsolicited e-mail, the difference between e-mail marketing and spam, Internet scams, and credit-card fraud. TechSoup is a Web site that provides technology information for charities; it is run by CompuMentor, in San Francisco. To get there: Go to http://www.techsoup.org/techsoup.cfm?id=218.
Human Rights Education Associates, a nonprofit organization in Cambridge, Mass., is offering an online course on using the Internet for human-rights advocacy from March 17 to May 11. The course costs $300. For more information: Go to http://www.hrea.org/courses.
The fall-winter issue of the Community Technology Review, which is available online, features articles on the role of the Internet in rural Alaska, online fund raising, and community technology in Russia. The journal is published by the Community Media and Technology Program in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. To get there: Go to http://www.comtechreview.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.