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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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The mainstream IT press was alive with the topic. It is TechSoup donor partner, Cisco’s ‘planetary skin’ that monitors trillions of sensors on, above, and below the earth to plot environmental changes. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Big picure time. It’s a longer-term trend. The nonprofit refurbisher.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Find the European Court of Justice press release here. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Move Over Cloud Computing – Make Way for The Fog.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

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I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers.

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