Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2008

Intel, Portugal agree to deal for 500,000 laptops: "Intel Corp. An Intel spokesperson declined.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Ledger-Enquirer.com | 11/25/2008 | Group hopes to give Wii systems to soldiers: "Voice-activated laptops reconnect the wounded with the world, allowing them to maintain contact with their deployed unit and family members not at the bedside, and developing self-confidence by showing they will continue to be engaged and productive despite their injuries.Dubbed (..)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Welcome your new Penguin overlords ;-) 2 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Susan Chun who spoke about the Steve project. I have a long history with the arts community in New York.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc. keep drawing electricity even if your phone/iPod/laptop/etc isn't charging. This post was originally published in December 2008, but. Unplug chargers for computers, cell phones, iPods, and other chargeable devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication. It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 21, 2008

Security chief quits OLPC amid restructuring | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-21 | By Agam Shah, IDG News Service: "A drastic internal restructuring underway at the One Laptop Per Child Project has caused a director of security to resign from the nonprofit effort.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. And, guess what? I’m giving up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I’m relatively happy, and, surprisingly enough, I don’t miss using the mac everyday. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In early 2008, both Apple and Dell started shipping high-end laptops with SSDs only; others have followed suit since then. From Atwood's article: I was an early solid state (SSD) drive adopter with my last laptop purchase, and it was a profound disappointment. As Kevin points out in Should You Upgrade to Windows 7?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Update: This post was originally published in December 2008, but since it holds lots of useful information for closing your office over a holiday break, we wanted to update it and put it at the top of our list for the 2009 holiday. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc.

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Care2

JANUARY 5, 2011

They love their gadgets and are constantly on the web via laptops and mobile devices. Social network site usage for this demographic has quadrupled since 2008, from 4% to 16%. The Millennials, Gen Xers, and the Matures. Millennials (ages 18-33) are an important demographic to the nonprofit sector. The are tech savvy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. Anyway, as the bus rolls by, I see "PVTA_0333" come up on the MacStumbler, then leave! Yeah, really, really! It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. Maybe faster than we think. {

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

In 2008, SDFF received a grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund, which enabled SDFF to fully develop their digital divide program and expand the number of families they could reach. Using this model, SDFF has helped more than 10,000 previously disconnected families connect to the Internet via broadband at home.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. Each of our three winners got either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. Each of our three winners got either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2009

In June of 2008, we posted information about US consumer electronics retailer, Best Buy, starting a pilot program to collect discarded consumer electronic devices at some of their locations in the United States. As of February 2009, stores in all 50 states now offer this ecycling program, which is now called Greener Together. read more.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

I recently learned that online fundraising made up only about 5% of total annual giving in 2008. Because I spend all day, every day in front of a laptop tweeting about my Facebook links. If you aren't subscribed yet, you really should be.]. I was floored. I thought it would be 30 to 50 percent. I live in a bubble -- a tech bubble.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. Friends of friends blogged on their behalf, sent text messages, walked dorm room to dorm room laptop in hand raising friends, asked their office colleagues for help. When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Jay Dedman is going to lead a video blogging workshop in New Orleans as part of the line up for the NTEN's NTC Day of Service 2008. Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 3, 2008

So farewell then, OLPC CTO (and dm.ca) | Computerworld Blogs: "It's the first IT Blogwatch of 2008: in which The One Laptop Per Child project loses its CTO.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 3, 2007

News Channel 7, Upstate South Carolina - National: "MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn't care if he is the world's richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.The Mexican telecom mogul pledged Thursday to donate 250,000 low-cost laptops to children by the end of the year and (..)

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 9, 2008

Behind the Intel/OLPC Breakup: "n mid-December, in the hip, Frank Gehry-designed IAC (IACI) building in New York, Intel (INTC) held a small gathering for a dozen or so journalists to preview the corporation's planned showcase at this week's 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. It became a commercial company in 2008. InterConnection recently worked with us to test out Windows Multipoint Server in charities and libraries to see how it works. Multipoint Server is thin client.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2011

Actually the first laptops hit the market 20 years ago and cell phones started shrinking in the early 1990s. In 2008, I had stumbled across their book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It in an airport bookstore. When did our office equipment start shrinking? Five years ago? Ten years ago? Cell phones. Software as a service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. "Mobile computing has boomed, and usability has improved to the point where tablets will start replacing laptops as the mobile computing device of choice. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. This past year, U.S.

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