Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. The 2013 Activism awards go mainly to charities and include: Change.org.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Multiple studies have found that more people are accessing the web from a mobile device. Furthermore, smartphone sales skyrocketed last year while PC sales are expected to decline in 2013. Incorporating responsive web design into your overall website planning will give it a longer "shelf life" on the Internet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” Of course, California is home to one out of eight people in the U.S. They are working on ways to harness these microbes to power Internet of Things type sensors. The University of Washington reports that their researchers have devised a battery-free way to run low-powered devices and Internet of Things type sensors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. Logos and images: Guide by Cell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

A neat way of introducing people to the cause. If there’s one thing guaranteed to send the internet into a re-tweeting frenzy, it’s the use of cute animals in their content. the six-second video flits through various adorable images of dogs in need of homes with a close caption ‘so do they’. Watch Video: [link]. Dogs Trust.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. As a writer, I spend a bunch of my time just trying to get a hold of people. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. The Almighty Smartphone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The fact that the $78 million awarded for technology funding in 2011 declined to $61 million in 2012 and $58 million in 2013 does not necessarily indicate a trend. New data will be added to the platform on a weekly basis, and the totals for 2013 and 2014 are likely to increase. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 4: Micah L.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Safer Internet Day. Image 1: Microsoft.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

Murtis Taylor Human Services System is a charity that provides health and human services support to people in need in Cleveland. When people can’t come to one of their offices, Murtis Taylor's 130 mobile case managers bring services to the people. We serve the people. We went live in October 2013.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

In his own words: The People’s Table is a virtual collection of images submitted by people around the world in response to the question, “What do you bring to the table?” Anyone with access to an Internet connection can bring themselves, and their vision to the table.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Ransomware became famous as a tool of cybercrime in 2013 with the infamous Cryptolocker attacks. While the attack has hit more than 200,000 computers, only around 200 people are estimated to have paid the $300 ransom. Bitdefender Internet Security. Image : portal gda / CC BY-NC-SA. WannaCry Ransomware. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. No, No,” I protested.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Instead of hiring door-to-door salespeople, organizations now rely on the Internet. In 2013, online fundraising grew by 13.5 But storefronts have other advantages as well: People already like them. An organization no longer has to ask people to buy products they don’t need. They improve brand image. They save time.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2016

What happens when printing costs rise, volunteer help is down, and people look less and less to paper and more to their iPhones? Back in April 2013, Thom S. It works well on any web-enabled phone, tablet, or computer with an Internet connection. Image 1: ChurchTechToday. Image 2 : Janet Simpkins / CC BY-NC-ND.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Mobile Beacon offers low-cost 4G mobile broadband devices to provide Internet connectivity pretty much anywhere you need it. The just released Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report reveals that faith-based organizations are leaders in online fundraising with an 18 percent increase in 2013. Image: Aftab.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2014

While you probably still have some time with your old phone system, many organizations are already shifting to mobile or Internet-based systems like VoIP. As more people cancel their landline service, the revenues from landlines go down and prices for existing lines increase. Image: Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

If you’re one of the 300 million or so people who used Hotmail free webmail, you probably know by now that Hotmail is no more and that you’ve been switched over to Outlook.com. Outlook.com launched in February 2013 and all existing Hotmail users have been upgraded to Outlook.com as of early April. Google Chrome 23.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Then dig into its Cutting Edge Social Media report from May 2013 to really satisfy your craving. Idealware offers some compelling examples of nonprofits using Foursquare creative ways, such as the Red Cross reward people for donating blood. Interestingly, last week The Pew Center's Internet Project did a report on Location.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. They provide you with viewable, interactive, and mostly hands-free Internet just above your right eye. Ned explained that the wearables are a hot topic now. century Italy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. It now of course has its own acronym: IoT.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. One of the concerns that people have in storing their data in the cloud is how private that data is. Now, here's the latest: Email.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Digital Wallets.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. This technology will make it easier for blind and sight-impaired people to browse the web. Image: Shutterstock. Move over Gates Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Also check out our offerings for editing images and videos as well as creating flowcharts and diagrams. Of course, these software programs can be used in combination to put together visual communications — so for example, you might want to edit images before laying them out in a brochure or publishing them in a web page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. Slow dial-up Internet access required that websites be as simple as possible for faster loading. Limit the Use of Images.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. People give to people.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

An estimated billion people carry water on their heads, so this is potentially transformative technology. In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. Digital Inclusion. News flash.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

This will give you a way to give an early action that will then show up on their calendar, phones, and even e-watches, increasing the chances people will act! Create a focused giving page just for #GivingTuesday and promote that exact page — don’t make people click around to find your donate button. Don’t forget matching gifts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

About half of all people in Africa own mobile phones. It now has a quarter billion Internet users and 450 million mobile phone users. At 16 percent growth, it is the fastest growing region in the world in adding Internet users. Image: WEEE Man by Pauline Eccles , Creative Commons. or Latin America.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Last week I published the 112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss , that compiled some of the wisest words and insights from across the industry this year. . npEngage’s Top 20 Posts from 2013. Steve MacLaughin showed us when he created the Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

My greatest hope for 2013 is that nonprofits evolve beyond the “free” mentality to a strategy that gives the time and financial investment necessary to make the Social Web work for your nonprofit. ” As discussed in the book, Twitter Lists are a powerful way to organize the chaos of following a lot of people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

My greatest hope for 2013 is that nonprofits evolve beyond the “free” mentality to a strategy that gives the time and financial investment necessary to make the Social Web work for your nonprofit. ” As discussed in the book, Twitter Lists are a powerful way to organize the chaos of following a lot of people.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. Here were the high points for me: It’s good to be super skeptical about giving out any of your passwords, credit card info, or any account credentials to people on the phone. Find prepared online safety messages to post and NCSAM profile images at [link]. To be sure, there are a lot.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Internet Retailer). Share info from MCON 2013. Post event images and sponsor images/story links. Quantcast.com, April 2013). “Tumblr is all about discovery.” This summer, we embarked on a Tumblr discovery of our own. It began when we invited. Liba Rubenstein. Tumblr’s director of strategy and outreach, to speak at.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There's good evidence in the education market that many people are trying to replace laptops with tablets. It can't run any desktop programs except Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. All images: Microsoft Store. As far as I know this is a new type of PC. It makes the Surface more of a cloud-reliant device.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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