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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

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. We can easily calendar with them, do email, do Internet searches, make calls, instant message, text, and conference on them. The Almighty Smartphone. Mobile Addiction.

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How can nonprofits leverage mobile technology for greater mission impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

According to Pew Research Center, a whopping 96 percent of Americans now own a cell phone, and the share that own smartphones is now 81 percent—up from just 35 percent in 2011. Roughly one in five Americans have abandoned broadband Internet altogether and now exclusively use their mobile device. Speed is a priority for users.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays. There’s a lot in there.

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Go Mobile: Why Responsive Web Design Matters for Libraries and Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Furthermore, smartphone sales skyrocketed last year while PC sales are expected to decline in 2013. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project Mobile Connections to Libraries study, 13 percent of patrons have visited a library website or accessed library services via a mobile device. inch smartphone display.

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s obvious to anyone who spends time online that video is taking over the internet. It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. But we have reached an inflection point.

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

Tech Soup

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. More Resources and Webinars.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2: ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets.