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Of Mice and Men and Laptops (A Kind of Buyer's Guide)

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I was trying to count the number of laptop models for sale at Best Buy, all the while avoiding the glance of any of the eleven sales associates (AKA "Blue Shirts") that hovered around the computer displays. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ).

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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

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Each push pin (that looks like a MacBook Pro) is a page from a travel diary written by his new laptop. I didn't have to look any further than the Idealware site and a recent report, " A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools " to get the answers. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Thank You Holly Ross and NTEN for Gift of Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Armed with her flip camera and her laptop she, asked people to mimic short clips from the movie. Thank you Holly for all you've accomplished in building, supporting, guiding, and celebrating the Nonprofit Technology community! Tags: 10ntc. What a great way to make people feel part of something! She is not only an.

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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

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. With web-based software, web conferencing, laptops, and smart phones, it's easier than ever to skip the office entirely. Recycle your old equipment.

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

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Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Big Changes Can Come from Small Steps: Sleep Settings

Tech Soup

Climate Savers computing offers this six-step guide with pictures to help you turn on the sleep settings. However, you might be able to adjust them so that they better suit your work-style and may even help you extend the life of your battery, if you are using a laptop. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Hardware Operating Systems.

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