Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

As such, we are comfortable in most environments, are quick to adapt at the introduction of a foreign software and interface, and willing to take on complicated items they may seem daunting to the world before us. Instead, it allows for collaboration the likes organizations have never before encountered. Multi-tasking.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Reducing the amount of travel organizations need to do by using more online teleconferencing and collaboration tools. Our Refurbished Computer Initiative has provided charities and libraries with top quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers at competitive prices and with free end of life recycling for many years.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. There is no real infrastructure. So what do you do?

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2013

On the other hand (and this was Mayer’s main point), working remotely affects both planned and accidental collaboration and can have an impact on the culture or feeling of identification with the organization. More solitary work is often done more efficiently when done in a quiet, uninterrupted environment. They’re not.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Thinking about things alone is one thing, but being a pretty typical collaborative type of nonprofit we pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through this. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month. to scale up RCI in California.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

This means you can start working on a document on your desktop and then continue where you left off on another computer, laptop, or tablet because Office saves your work in the cloud as you go. The notes you take on your desktop or laptop will be accessible from any other computer as well as your tablet and smartphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For organizations with scattered or disarrayed IT environments, it's amazing how different your tech infrastructure can look after you've spent some time documenting it. Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. She's great.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For organizations with scattered or disarrayed IT environments, it's amazing how different your tech infrastructure can look after you've spent some time documenting it. Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. She's great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. But walking with colleagues can boost relationship-building and collaboration. Walking is the Killer Work App for Creativity.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The First ONE campaign officially launched with an on-campus reception where laptops were available allowing supporters to register. And the environment was festive! If the team captain had an affinity group, they would collaborate with the foundation to reach the whole affinity group rather than just those they knew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

For a more collaborative online auction idea, you might want to throw a virtual community market. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Virtual Community Market Themed Auction. Garden Party Auction.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process. This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. A content library of ready-to-use templates.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We also are practical, and agile, and collaborative. Other things around collaboration: making sure that everyone on staff knew exactly which tools to use to collaborate with their colleagues, and obviously management. But then it becomes rolling out, without anyone…any real collaboration in terms of approval, so to speak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

We have to create an environment of trust around the information we collect and be crystal clear about where it’s going. When it comes to selecting service providers and partners for projects and collaborations, make sure they are just as committed to privacy as you are. As leaders, we have to respect our audience. A YouTube channel?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Which leads me to.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Which leads me to.

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Gyrus

APRIL 12, 2018

As such, we are comfortable in most environments, are quick to adapt at the introduction of a foreign software and interface, and willing to take on complicated items they may seem daunting to the world before us. Instead, it allows for collaboration the likes organizations have never before encountered. Multi-tasking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. During our recent campaign to recruit new team members, Benetech has attracted qualified candidates by offering more than just good pay and a pleasant work environment.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

The right cloud environment will allow your organization to function in a more streamlined and efficient manner. That kind of on-the-go access dramatically increases opportunities for collaboration amongst your team. It’s Anytime, Anywhere. Mobile has quickly become the mainstream. And this will only continue to evolve.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. So it is another way of saving paper.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So make that map and keep it updated so when a new product comes into your environment, somebody. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. Do you have a laptop that will work for you to do heavy technology tasks? It’s like a staff person, right?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. We got about 75 applications and one of them came from Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, which is called GRACE. Now, we've have it all in our laptops and we can make anything we want to make.

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