Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Nonprofits and libraries are consistently challenged to collaborate with their staffs, boards, and other supporters in efficient and effective ways. If these scenarios sound familiar, come see if Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online could be a fit for your organization. Pacific time. read more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2010

The brand spanking new Microsoft Office 2010 slate of products has just hit the shelves and is now available for donation through TechSoup. There are also three new versions of Visio, the popular graphics and diagramming software: Microsoft Visio Standard 2010 , Microsoft Visio Professional 2010 , Microsoft Visio Premium 2010.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2010

Microsoft just released SharePoint 2010, the latest version of its enterprise-level content-management, search, and collaboration platform. TechSoup has donations of SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition , SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition and SharePoint Workspace 2010 to eligible nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2010

In honor of Earth Day 2010, we've just launched our new lineup of refurbished laptops and desktops in TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI). The RCI program supplies low-cost, warrantied computers to nonprofits and public libraries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2010

You've probably heard the news that Microsoft Office 2010 is launching soon. If you're interested in requesting Office when it's available, you might want to make sure your organization or public library is registered with TechSoup and review Microsoft's donation policies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010. However, the millennial generation doesn’t consider technology to be a panacea for living the good life.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2010

If you haven't heard the buzz, the 2010 Adobe-TechSoup Show Your Impact Design Contest is on. This could be your nonprofit organization or public library. The judging process hasn't even begun, and we've already received dozens of remarkable submissions.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

" Google+ vs. Facebook vs. Twitter vs. … Part 1: T… – Lithosphere Community – "Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM. " Library Value Calculator | Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library – I love this!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Just a few weeks ago, we put out the call to nonprofits and libraries in the United States and Canada to demonstrate how their innovative use of Adobe software acquired through the TechSoup product donation program helped them change lives, communities, and the world for the better.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And the winner is: Jenifer Daniels, Communications & Marketing Speclalist at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. We posed a question on our wall today and drew randomly from responses to choose our winner. . The Conversation on Facebook. Thank you for being a member of NTEN! We're sending you a copy of Seth Godin's book, Linchpin.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2010

We also feature low-cost products available to nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup. We promote no-cost practices that people can do to reduce electrical power consumption like setting power management on computers and using free communications tools like Skype to cut down on travel.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In this blog post I'll talk in more detail about some implementation scenarios and deployment considerations for your nonprofit or library. There are pros and cons to both approaches, and you should decide based on the technology capacity your organization and library has, and your present and future expansion plans for this multi-user setup.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

If you've developed something that you can share with other nonprofits working on this, please upload them to IdeaEncore's nonprofit resource library and tag it with keywords NTEN and Data Backup Policies. I know many of you have tackled this for your organizations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Particularly important for smaller nonprofits and libraries, troubleshooting problems, maintaining your technology, learning new tech skills, and increasing the effectiveness of every day applications can help keep you ahead of the curve and help avoid problems down the road. nonprofit or library? DIY Online Events. Join us at 11:00.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

It’s been awhile since I posted on the TechSoup for Libraries blog on whether digital books and the devices that people use to read them like Kindles, Nooks, and tablet computers are greener than printed books. libraries now carry them as free downloads on their websites. More than three quarters of U.S. Interesting stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The DIAGRAM Center was launched in May 2010 by Benetech with support from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Benetech's digital Bookshare library is currently using Poet to add image descriptions for its accessible ebooks used by people with print disabilities.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 3, 2010

Saving the web for the future - 02 Mar 2010 - Computing: "The British Library’s UK Web Archive project to save all the UK’s free-access web sites underlines just how pervasive the internet’s role in people’s lives has become.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 14, 2012

Back in 2010, NPower Northwest' s Shawn Michael wrote a blog post outlining what you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM for in a nonprofit (or library) environment. Shawn will talk about using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, integration options, and where to get help, all with nonprofits and libraries in mind.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2010

Our community of nonprofit and library professionals sure does want to know more about Office 2010! We've had overwhelming demand to attend the upcoming Office 2010 webinar we're co-producing with Microsoft next week. Unfortunately, it is filled to the brim but don't worry if you didn't get a spot! Register now !

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Some of the biggest ways your nonprofit or library can make an. admin fee: $24–$31) is the backbone of most nonprofit and library. Office suites include: OneNote 2010: More than any other program for me, OneNote is a handy note-taking program that virtually eliminates the need for notepads. million sheets of. paper a year.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2010

On August 25, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. Eastern time, our donor partner Mission Research (which donates its fundraising and donor management software GiftWorks to eligible nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup) will host a free webinar on planned giving with Scott Lyons. to 2:30 p.m. From GiftWorks: read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

One of the things we'll be covering is the SmartArt feature , which Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 and improved in Office 2010. PowerPoint 2010: Choosing SmartArt Graphics : Easy video introduction to SmartArt. It's free, but be sure to sign up ahead of time. It should be a great discussion. Otherwise, steer clear.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

We hear from young nonprofits and libraries all the time, and we know that making wise and affordable technology investments can play a vital part in building and growing an organization. Microsoft Office (admin fee: $24–$31) is the backbone of most nonprofit and library offices. See our product descriptions for more details.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at. What Does Lync Actually Do?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Katherine Stephans is the partnerships and communications manager at Library For All. She said she had one of those sparks working with Library For All, inspired by the passion of Library For All’s co-founders. “We Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Reducing the amount of electricity that computers in nonprofits and libraries use. Our Refurbished Computer Initiative has provided charities and libraries with top quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers at competitive prices and with free end of life recycling for many years.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Watch a replay of TechSoup's Short Evaluations of Real Websites webinar to hear expert feedback on nonprofit and library websites. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 is a CMS available through TechSoup's Microsoft Donation Program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2012

Michael Sauers, Technology Planning for Libraries. One additional feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 that we did not cover much in our webinar is animation. You may notice that each slide has just enough information to arouse curiosity , and that the slides are largely dependent on what the speaker would be saying.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Here's an idea for using smartphones with good cameras and video capability like the Dell Venue Pro touch screen phones for digital story telling: Send someone out to video compelling work that your nonprofit or library is doing out in the field for your holiday message. for lots of great resources for nonprofit and library apps.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has supplied more than 65,000 pieces of IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries in the last 10 years. Back in 2006, we started the RCI program to supply charities and libraries with good, low-cost warrantied computers that would stand the test of time.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We've got a new Microsoft product available here at TechSoup that might be useful for libraries, organizations with computer labs, or other multi-user computing environments: Windows MultiPoint Server 2010.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

According to a 2010 statistic, people around the world spend three billion hours a week playing video games. Read TechSoup for Libraries' account of the Games for Change Festival to learn how libraries are using gaming to engage their communities. TechSoup Taiwan recently held a Net Tuesday event.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

On Thursday, March 18, 2010 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern time, our donor partner Mission Research (which donates its fundraising and donor-management software GiftWorks to eligible nonprofits and libraries) will host a free webinar for nonprofits on writing successful fundraising appeals. Reserve your seat today !

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