Category: Portfolio (Page 7 of 8)

This is my blog’s “best of” collection along with pieces that were originally published elsewhere.

More nonprofits are now eligible for Adobe discounts!

April 1, 2011 / Elaina

This was originally posted on NPowering, the blog of NPower Seattle on September 2, 2010.

Adobe has long produced professional software for creating compelling documents and media, but many nonprofits have been stuck by their donation policies and steep costs in the past. Many of those nonprofits are likely to be overjoyed with TechSoup’s news yesterday that Adobe has just loosened their donation program rules to allow many more nonprofits to access their products at reduced rates. While there are several changes to their policy, one of the most biggest moves is that now more health care organizations are eligible for the discounts. In the past, only health care organizations providing services to people with disabilities were eligible, but now organizations including “nursing homes, rural medical facilities, mental health organizations, and family planning organizations” will be able to receive the discounted software as well. Continue reading

Update Advice

April 1, 2011 / Elaina

This was originally posted on NPowering, the blog of NPower Seattle on March 25, 2011. Re-posted here.

There’s a lot of tech news this week regarding updates – Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 has recently been released as well as Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. While we generally recommend keeping software up-to-date, we also recommend that people do some research and planning before going through with updates and upgrades to make sure that you won’t experience negative effects. Here are some guidelines and advice to help you know when to update: Continue reading

The Tale of Emergency Contraception

April 1, 2011 / Elaina

This post was originally published in the July 2004 edition of “Emma’s Journal”, the newsletter of the Women’s Health project.

While all of the recent press about Emergency Contraception (EC) has been about how the FDA declined to make this prescription over-the-counter, we have been having our own drama with EC. In late February of this year, we applied for a grant through the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) to fund an EC advertising project. This project is to raise awareness of EC in the Hispanic communities of Eastern Iowa, specifically in West Liberty and Muscatine. We wanted to use the grant money to update information about EC, mainly the recent change of it now being effective up to 5 days after unprotected sex. We planned on putting up bilingual billboards about EC as well as newspaper and radio ads. Continue reading