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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Telework (also called telecommuting) is where an employee regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling. 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. That's around 1.3

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. social change.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. There are remedies.

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Things We Like (October 2013)

NTEN

Well, now there''s an app for that , or, maybe just cell phones in general. What would tech support look like for other things that stopped working? It''s harvest time in the Northern Hemisphere and the Boston Globe has some great images of this year''s harvest. Like the government ? nptech nten'

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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Your 10 Point Checklist For Nonprofit Newsletter Writing

TechImpact

Image courtesy of James Madison University. Passive content gathering is when you are working throughout the week, aggregating links, content and information as you unintentionally stumble over it. Send your newsletter to someone who reads it on their laptop, and to another one who is going to read it on their smart phone.

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

Tech Soup

Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. There are new and interesting things in the works. The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985.