Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2009

There are dozens if not hundreds of affordable, reliable, high-quality, green web hosts in the market today. Here are some third-party lists of green web hosts: . . . There is even a Twitter account that simply lists green web hosts. Choose one to host your website. b2evolution. TreeHugger. WebHostingReport.com.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The theme for this week of TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative campaign, The Green Side of Cloud Computing , is security in the cloud. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Physical Security Privacy Running Your Organization Security Security Software Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In our quest to build a solid foundation for nonprofits and libraries to understand how cloud computing is likely to affect us, we have now completed our GreenTech Initiative Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign. Our final offering of the campaign is an article entitled Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Here are just a few of the ways you can green your IT, or use IT to green your organization this Earth Day: Conduct a green office audit. Print green. Did you know that the age of the Internet has actually increased our paper consumption ? Join the Green IT Consortium on LinkedIn. Skip the commute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized! For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. It is a fundamental shift in how people use the Internet for social good.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The theme for week two of TechSoup GreenTech's Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign is Software as a Service (SaaS). Find out more about the webinar at our Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign web page. Tags: GreenTech Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

" Virtual meetings are live or "synchronous" interactive meetings in which each participant sits at their own computer or phone and is connected to other participants via the Internet and mobile devices. GreenTech Microsoft Green IT online community online collaboration webinars teleconfering virtual conferencing'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. There’s no question that the Internet has evolved significantly over the past 26 years. Guest post by Thuy LeDinh.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Dollar for dollar, VOIP phone services are the cheapest options available for nonprofit organizations seeking a versatile communication platform. By calling long distance over the internet you are avoiding the use of the traditional phone infrastructure that make calling long-distance so costly. Green technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2010

For Earth Day 2010, we've featured a variety of posts on how to green your technology. Sadly for me, eFax discontinued their consumer service and began to focus on small businesses so I ended up switching to TrustFax , but the eFax solution is still a great one for organizations that need fax capability. Find more solutions here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Are you … A U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Are you … A U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

on weekdays, you get off the internet. Friday's Confession: I Want to Quit the Internet on Crafty Fanny "I love 'meeting' new people through their blogs, or facebook, or twitter. The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Unplug at 8 on GOOD.is " The rules are simple: After 8 p.m. No email, no blogging, you can't even read GOOD.is. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Software as a service (SaaS) is an undeniably green alternative to traditional computing. It's one form of cloud computing in which people use software applications that are located on the Internet rather than on their own computers or networks. But is it the right solution for you and your organization?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2011

If by chance GreenTech happened to get a windfall of end-of-year financial donations, here are some green IT items that we'd be very tempted to get or try out. Some new LED monitors for desktop computers. These energy efficient displays are now on the market at prices that are comparable to conventional LCD monitors.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Chances are good your organization is already using some form of cloud computing without realizing it. Cloud computing, simply put, is a way for your computer to access computing power via the internet. This is great if you are planning to use a cloud system for one or two applications in your organization. Green benefits.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. Office Tools No matter how small your organization is when you start, you need a basic office setup. Accounting: You need an accounting tool, even if your organization is very small or just getting started.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART for Animals is a one-stop rescue organization for all things pets in rural Maryland. The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community. Joe says, "It happens when organizations aren't responsible in using the tool. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.".

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

When we found out about Lovay Wallace-Singleton's new project to build a solar-powered organic garden in North Carolina, one that also brings rehabilitation and jobs to veterans, we had to talk to her. The full name of Lovay's project is Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden. Nothing is wasted. We have 46 beds.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2011

Another important factor in this debate is that the Egyptian government shut down the internet. Yet due to old fashion organizing on the ground, the protests have escalated. They stressed that while the internet and social media were useful in helping to organize and spread information, most of the work was done on the ground.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Microsoft's new version of Office 2010 is interesting in several ways, especially in its approach to green IT and cloud computing. It has scaled down versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and One Note, an application that creates and organizes free-form notes, ideas, to-do lists, and more. Web Apps for Organizations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2010

To that end, throughout October, we will publish information to help you understand what the cloud is, how this shift in technology might impact your organization, and we will even try and help you understand some of the criteria you should use when, you launch yourself, or get launched into, the cloud.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. That's something that a few people in our organization are working towards. Britt: For people who aren't familiar with green rooftops, what is a green roof? It acts like an insulator.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Social capital is tangible and malleable.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

If your organization does any work with computer-aided design (CAD), then you were probably as excited as we were about this new offering. When visitors to your website share credit card info or other sensitive information, they can feel more secure knowing that they're actually sharing it with your organization and no one else.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

If your organization has flexible work systems in place, then a "carpocalypse" such as this won't have nearly the destructive impact that it otherwise could on your team's productivity. BetterWorld Telecom, a TechSoup donation partner, has helped organizations as they shift to a more virtual work environment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Don’t update your organization’s profiles on the weekend. If you work in an office, then when you leave for the day, leave the work in the office and don’t login to your organization’s profiles when you get home. I do use the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page for work. Get more greens.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. The organization's work addresses the environmental concern that 40 percent of all food in the United States is wasted every year.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

One will be for the project that gets the most votes on Just Means , and the other three winners will be determined by a panel of judges and distributed out to one small, one medium and one large organization. The rules of the challenge are reasonably simple.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

The local area networks they need are often similar, using one or two servers to connect the office to the Internet, serve databases and email, do back-ups and software updates, and the list of similarities goes on. It now has more than 500 companies and organizations in the initiative, including of course, TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

HealthRIGHT 360 is an impressive and complex organization, the combination of two renowned community nonprofits, Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics and Walden House. The Situation: HealthRIGHT 360 had multiple providers for phone and Internet services across all their locations, which created complex bill management. Background.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

Is video conferencing right for you and your organization? Tags: Acquiring Technology Connecting to the Internet Green Office GreenTech GreenTips Online Seminar Telecom Services Web 2.0 Video conferencing is no longer a technology only for rich corporations.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 3, 2019

The goal of social media is to lure people to your website so they make a donation, volunteer or somehow get involved with your organization, right? If you’re noticing a lot of growth and green, keep doing what you’re doing! The internet is constantly keeping track of helpful facts and figures without you even realizing it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Little Green Light is cloud-based donor management software that helps you manage donors, volunteers, members, and fundraising campaigns. is fundraising and donor management software that can help your church organize and manage fundraising campaigns and donations. DonorPerfect is both fundraising and donor management software.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2009

Tags: Green Office GreenTech Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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