Trainings

Please find below a list of many of the trainings that the Progressive Technology Project has conducted over the years. Each training contains links to materials used in the trainings.

Agenda

Welcome & Overview

  • Introductions
  • Goals of Today's Training
  • Discuss Proposed PowerBase Workflow for Tenant Organizing for Right to Counsel Campaign's Outputs & Outcomes
  • Logging in to PowerBase

Entering Tenant Buildings & Tenant Contacts

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Agenda

Welcome & Overview

  • What tools are you using for sharing files and storing files?

Criteria

  • CIA: Confidentiality, Integrity, Accessibility
  • Risk assessment: Who are you protecting your data from?
  • Subpoena risks?
  • Organizational culture

Options - common tools used for sharing files

What is good about these methods? What is bad about these methods?

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Materials

Materials will not be printed for you at the training. If you want a paper copy, please download and print before you come.

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Agenda

Welcome & Introductions

  • Go Around & Discussion: Each share the following:
    • What database tool are you using?
    • How are you and your organization using the database?
    • What are the pros and cons of using your database?

Aspects of Database Security

  • Knowing your providers
  • Knowing your tech support
  • Know your staff and volunteers
  • Know your mission

How do these security aspects apply to the following types of Databases:

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    This workshop was designed collaboratively between PTP and Ken Montenegro, who is the Director of IT at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the National Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild, and a coalition member of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.

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    Stories

    Do you know of anyone who has experienced these kinds of attacks?

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    Agenda

    • Welcome & Introduction to the Learning Table: 5 minutes
    • Introduction to Assessment Workshop: 5 minutes (Alice) Each organization has written up a needs assessment. Our goal today is to pull those together into a movement/sector needs assessment to find the commonalities that will allow us to focus this series of workshops
    • Discussion of participants' needs assessment: 30 minutes (choose one organization to present to start things off)
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    This PowerBase online workshop was conducted on Monday, February 12, 2018.

    Have you been wanting to creating email templates that look smashingly wonderful on smartphones in PowerBase?

    Well, a new extension in PowerBase uses Mosaico which can help you create email templates easily. And you can still use the traditional PowerBase / CiviCRM Mailing feature and still have access to your existing templates. We'll show you how!

    Here's documentation on how to use the Mosaico feature in PowerBase.

    The following are training agenda items for PowerBase Administrators. The agenda items here are suggested topics and are covered based on the relevance and priority to the work of the organization.

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