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. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college.

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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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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. We at TechSoup have for a long time been fervent advocates for refurbished PCs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on?

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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

For someone with a hectic travel schedule, remote presentations are always welcomed. There is a huge benefit because you save time and travel money. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video.

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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. It should be easy to plug in a new monitor.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SSDs have been around in various forms for a long time , but only in recent years have manufacturers started seriously marketing them to consumers as an alternative to traditional hard drives. In early 2008, both Apple and Dell started shipping high-end laptops with SSDs only; others have followed suit since then.

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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

So I’m sitting at my now most favorite free wifi hotspot ( Bart’s in Amherst - it’s quiet and easy to find an outlet) and I happen to be looking at MacStumbler at the same time as a bus drives by. It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. Yeah, really, really!

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. "There was a time when you could send a press release and expect a reporter to follow up with you to do a thoughtful story. Braided River received a Dell Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. "There was a time when you could send a press release and expect a reporter to follow up with you to do a thoughtful story. Braided River received a Dell Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. The Challenge raised $1.8

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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. But now's the time for our sector to do something about it. If you aren't subscribed yet, you really should be.]. I was floored.

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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. Over time we refined our instructions.

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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. Over time we refined our instructions.

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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

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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2011

There was a time when making a phone call for work meant you needed to be seated at your office desk. 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. Five years ago?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. The nonprofit Feedback Labs maintains that mobile phone surveys are 100 times cheaper and much, much times faster than conventional online surveys.

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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. These and other things have the opposite effect.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. Steven: All the time. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So use the chat, the Q&A.

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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. I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this."

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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. I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this."

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Paper use cut by 95%: Despite our new offerings of mobile evaluations (along with an online version), we still couldn't abandon paper evaluations completely, on the off chance anyone showed up at our technology conference without a cell phone or laptop. Fortunately, we still have a lot of time to figure everything out this year.

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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. As time goes on, you can easily add new pages and then figure out in the end how to organize and prioritize all of the segmented content. He had the right people, but not the right time.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Cloud backup will evolve into cloud disaster recovery: smart organizations will make sure they can recover apps & data in the cloud greatly reducing down time when disaster strikes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." This time with a video that explains what the big deal is about blog in 3 minutes. Zonbu has announced a laptop version. Here's why.

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