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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

Mary Meeker of the of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, does a yearly report on current state of the Internet and IT at about half way through the year. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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From 2005 to 2015: The Radical Effect of Social Media on Nonprofit Web Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. Today, social media consumes the most time spent on the Internet and the majority of that browsing occurs on a smartphone or tablet. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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5 Pros and Cons of Virtual Nonprofit Fundraising Events

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When planning an in-person fundraising event, your organization likely nails down the venue, catering, and entertainment very quickly since these need to be booked months in advance—and can require a significant amount of funds. However, this isn’t the case with virtual events. .

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Does This Deserve My Attention?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter greeted me at the airport and as I got into the car I noticed a copy of Rheingold’s book NetSmart in the back seat. As he says in his book, your attention is one of your most available assets. .” Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Your Online Account Has Been Compromised — Now What?

Tech Soup

Disconnect the compromised device from the Internet. Although I was not able to immediately pinpoint how the breach occurred, I speculated it was via a laptop I had used earlier that day. I have an installed email program that accesses my Gmail via IMAP, and this contains an address book that may have been accessed via malware.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

Tech Soup

The science that makes the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is explained by Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology and Ruediger Kuehr in their book. In his book Natural Capitalism , Paul Hawkin finds that the amount of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1.

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I had already had purchased a copy, I did a book giveaway. It was the first book I read on blogging. It thought it might do some good in another part of the world rather than collecting dust on my bookshelf -- I've internalized my learning from the book. So, I used the random.org random number generator and 7 came up.