Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Laptops and now ultrabooks are much more energy efficient than desktop computers, and so in that aspect, can be regarded as green IT devices. Ultrabooks are light, thin, laptop computers with long battery life and that cost under $1,000. Ultrabooks are full laptops, with good performance packed in a highly portable form.

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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

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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago. Be Helpful.

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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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. at 3:28 am Linux is a Godsend for my nonprofit. And, guess what?

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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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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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Care2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Millennials (ages 18-33) are an important demographic to the nonprofit sector. 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%. Nonprofits, Innovation, Failure, and Donations. The are tech savvy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology No, really? I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. A wifi hotspot on a bus?? July 28, 2005 I just found this very cool tool, called MacStumbler. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

He's been involved with nonprofits and community. Today he runs his own consulting company, Adapt ∞ Impact , which serves the nonprofit community exclusively. SDFF was founded in late 1999 by two co-workers and me to provide technology and technical services to nonprofits in San Diego County. more than 20 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday. Nonprofits can no longer ignore these tools or they risk becoming irrelevant." My notes are here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. We started as a nonprofit. " Surviving as a Nonprofit Press.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. We started as a nonprofit. " Surviving as a Nonprofit Press.

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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. Led by some great folks from Cisco (they also donated the hardware too), a second team of nonprofit trainers be going to the Community Center of St. It was so popular they had to do it at another venue).

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. based nonprofits, schools, low-income families, and small microenterprise businesses. InterConnection is our Seattle-based nonprofit refurbisher.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). Communications and Marketing.

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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

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. How do you appropriately implement them?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop. And then laptop because, you know, work, right? How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh. What about this one?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking It’s the Seating Chart, Stupid Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 18th, 2010 Where should the Internet team be on the organization chart? Who should own the Internet at our nonprofit? Focus on the seating chart. Try it for a week.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Both are extensible platforms with strong nonprofit user communities. The cloud is a tool.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Both are extensible platforms with strong nonprofit user communities. The cloud is a tool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Whether it's a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit's or library's data and computers are always there. Endpoint Protection suites guard against botnets, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spam, and spyware.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Every year at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), one of our major goals is to collect enough feedback from you, the attendees, to make our future conferences even better. Karl Hedstrom , NTEN. Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. Imagine if he had instead launched the project at the ASTC conference, and had spent the conference walking around with a laptop, asking people to contribute a demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Papilia Online Tax Receipts enables nonprofits to provide donors with a secure web page that allows them to view their giving history and print personalized tax receipts. CrowdFunder is another web site that lets you set up a page and collect donations for a personal fundraising effort or nonprofit organization. Here's why.

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