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Today In TechSoup

As many of you know, TechSoup recently experienced an unplanned service outage from Thursday morning, August 28 – Friday evening, August 29. The problem was a hardware connectivity issue at the facility that hosts TechSoup's Web servers. Our IT team worked with this facility to successfully bring our sites back up.

Thank you to all nonprofits who shared their stories by uploading photos to TechSoup's group on Flickr. See the featured photo, taken by the Women's Resource Center, and learn how your organization can be among the 3,000 nonprofits who have already received Flickr Pro account donations through TechSoup.

From office productivity tools to streamlining technology rollouts, TechSoup has pulled together the best free tools available into one nifty free downloads section. Find cool gadgets for audio editing, checking for network vulnerabilities, hosting online forums, combining instant messaging services into one tool, and more.

Tried Chrome, Google’s newly released Web browser? Share your experience and get the scoop on this new Web browser in the Community Forum.

The TechSoup Tech Beginner’s Guide is the place to start for a healthy and secure computing environment. Here you can find the Healthy and Secure Computing workbook, which forms the foundation to a stable and productive technology infrastructure in your organization.

The MaintainIT Project publishes free content about maintaining public computers, including Spotlight articles that delve deep into the experiences of librarians and tech support staff. But don’t just read them – each Spotlight features an audio clip straight from our interviews. And if you’re looking to learn more, attend one of our three free monthly webinars.

This article, adapted from a Red Earth white paper, gives practical recommendations for minimizing legal risk in your organization's email. In detail, it discusses why email disclaimers are needed, the different types of disclaimers that can be used, and how to add them. You can also check out some easy-to-use examples of disclaimers for your organization.

Network in the virtual world to further your work in the real world! Come by Common Ground every Thursday night to network and meet with other nonprofits working in Second Life.