Opportunity often hides behind adversity. As libraries look to a future of post-pandemic challenges, from looming budget cuts to increasingly urgent community needs, David Lankes, in The "New Normal" Agenda for Librarianship, encourages us to consider framing the positive opportunities, rather than loss, in the changes that lie ahead. If we are intentional, we can use these circumstances to grow our organizations and to address the digital acc...

Our panel of thought leaders will discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on early childhood development. From their vantage point, we will hear what was not surprising to them, as well as what was unexpected. We will explore how this public health and economic crisis has challenged the early childhood ecosystem and learn what actions all of us; whether we are educators, program directors, appointed officials, elected officials or caregi...

Higher Education faces a unique set of challenges when managing identities, securely connecting users to both SaaS and on-prem applications, and securing campus administrative servers. Complicating matters, colleges and universities service a broad range of personas including staff, faculty, adjunct faculty, admissions applicants, students, alumni, donors, contractors, athletics/arts supporters, and many others who walk across campus every day...

The VMware Grants Support Program provides public sector agencies, educational institutions, and hospitals with grants information, customized funder research, and consultation that will help develop project ideas, get technology-rich projects funded, and even expand initiatives that are already in the works. Join us on March 26 to learn how you can leverage your membership with The Quilt to utilize these services. Find out how VMware and Cara...

Do you know where the state, local, and education (SLED) information technology market is headed? With divided government at the national level and major partisan swings in the states, vendors cannot take a one-size-fits-all approach to this rapidly evolving market. With the SLED fiscal year starting July 1st, take advantage of this free webinar to get a first look at the trends driving the SLED IT market next year and beyond. The presentation...

Managing privileged account passwords is a first step to strengthen your security posture, but important gaps remain that can easily be exploited by bad actors. Learn how to combine password vaulting with the following, all while securing remote access and monitoring all privileged sessions: Brokering of identitiesMFA enforcementJust-enough privilege

Whether you are doing manual edits to single PDF documents or automated edits to mass quantities of paper or digital files (e.g. Word, TIFF, PDF/A, etc), Foxit has one integrated, secure platform for all your PDF needs. In this introductory on-demand session for Government users, Frank Kettenstock will teach you to edit a PDF file like a Word document using PhantomPDF’s easy-to-use Microsoft Office like interface. Bookmark, redact, OCR t...

Join us as Webinar Wednesdays continues the conversation about inclusion in communications. Last month, we learned how a community reinvented its communications to adjust to changing demographics. This month, Kara Alaimo, Ph.D. will discuss how to adapt your communication strategies, tactics, and messages for different countries and cultures. Kara will celebrate the release of her newly published book (available August 17), Pitch, Tweet, or En...

Come away with the tools necessary to more accurately identify segments of your audience and better target your messaging. Chris will help you get beyond demographics and into marketing and sales techniques.

Setting Your Project Up for Success Program and Project Managers (PMs) have the primary responsibility for developing and managing projects according to government requirements and measurable performance standards. They ensure that all activities in the project life-cycle achieve their intended outcomes.This webcast will address the government PM’s role and a number of tools that can be used during performance of the project to ensure a...