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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Is 2012 The Year of the Ultrabook?

Tech Soup

The Macbook Air has been around since early 2008, and frankly struggled in its first years with poor sales and technical problems. According to James Kendrick , Intel is predicting that 40 percent of all laptops sold will be ultrabooks by the end of 2012. ” What do you think of ultrabooks for nonprofits and libraries?

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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! David Lee King writes about, talks about, and works around libraries, social media, and digital communities. and media strategies for nonprofits, companies, and individuals. Connect with David on Twitter at @davidleeking.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

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Back in May 2012 we got the first announcements of a huge U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 2011 and is now its own nonprofit organization. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. in Philadelphia.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And as an extra reward for getting involved in sharing the good this holiday season, you can enter our #Goodspotting sweepstakes for a chance to win up to $500 in holiday spending cash for yourself, and up to a $5,000 donation to the nonprofit of your choice. Many in the nonprofit social media community are helping Stacey reach her goal.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

” In other words, if the new PC market grows by by 9% worldwide in 2012 as is forecast by the business research firm IDC , then the used PC market will grow as well. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.