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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!

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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Force.com Utility Belt - This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation.it's all there.

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Chromebook for Nonprofits: Are Web Apps All You Need?

Tech Soup

I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? In January, Kevin reviewed the Cr-48 laptop , a Chromebook prototype. Word processing? For instant messaging, there's Meebo as well as a handful of other tools.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart.

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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Print green.

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Force.com Utility Belt – This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation…it’s all there.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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