Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. Picture it: You're on public transit after a long work day and you accidentally leave your laptop behind. What if it ends up in the wrong hands?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone. It is a trend I would definitely be monitoring at www.mobilepaymentsworld.com.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Q: What happens when you bring app developers together with nonprofits and libraries along with some coffee thrown in? Last October, I wrote about a breakfast co-hosted by Caravan Studios and Twilio for nonprofits and app developers. The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, that can connect to Wi-Fi.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. This post was originally published on the TechSoup for Libraries blog.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Through organizations like Tech Impact and TechSoup , these online services are being offered at a significant discount to nonprofits, charities, libraries, and private foundations. Tablet computers: So maybe your iPad isn't a replacement for your desktop or laptop, but the Surface Pro is getting awfully close. Your cost: $400.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But it usually requires some additional hardware to connect your user stations (keyboard, mouse, monitor) to the host computer. Access devices connect user stations to the host computer. In a direct connection setup, you plug user station monitors directly into the host computer's video display ports. Direct Connections.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Whether it’s a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit's or library's data and computers are always there. Our Virus Vaccination and Computer Security Forum , hosted by security expert Gary Lamontagne. Keep Your Networks Secure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The best part is that one central "host" computer does all the work for multiple user stations, reducing the cost and effort associated with maintaining multiple computers. InterConnection has teamed up with TechSoup to help nonprofits, libraries, and refurbishers learn about and implement Windows MultiPoint Server.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

In some cases, you can host certain cloud services yourself. For example, you can use SharePoint to host and share files instead of going with a third-party cloud storage provider like Box. If you're a large organization with plenty of technical resources and expertise, you may be able to manage a self-hosted cloud service.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

reveals a host of smart new features that our nonprofit, charity, and library members will all find more useful. Let's back up a minute first and discuss what surveying can mean for the nonprofit and public library sector. Release of FluidSurveys 5.0. Change can be good—really good. The release of FluidSurveys 5.0

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center. In these early days, I was a “scholarly” introvert. If you cannot concentrate, you will be in trouble.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With fundraising tools , nonprofits can run dynamic fundraising campaigns, process donations, and host fundraising events. However, before you can start hosting your first peer-to-peer fundraiser , it’s important to find the right peer-to-peer software. Peer-to-peer platforms. Other Nonprofit Tools. Accounting software.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. We have served more than 12,300 nonprofits and libraries across all 50 states, and we estimate that we have have saved organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This would have come in handy a few years ago when my laptop was stolen from a parked car in Stanley Park. Rhode Island's Open Data : Yet another site only a programmer could love, RI.gov's data library is as deep and wide as Newport Harbor, for which you can download tidal data. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Whether it’s a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit’s or library’s data and computers are always there. Check out our Computer Security Forum hosted by security expert Gary Lamontagne. Four Free Tools for Backup and Security.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

I've been warning about the end of XP for months now , urging nonprofits, charities, and libraries to upgrade as soon as possible. We just recently hosted a free webinar on upgrading Windows operating systems. There are essentially no good excuses to stay with XP. Reason 1: I Can't Afford to Upgrade My Hardware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted). Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. I also discovered the gopher! The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Last week, Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, and Twilio co-hosted a breakfast for nonprofits and app developers. The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. Eight apps. Infinite inspiration.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. WMS can also use legacy hardware, such as old laptops or desktop computers. Both WMS Standard Edition and Premium Edition require a server license for the host computer.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server (WMS) is a thin client or shared resource computing software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously. Basically it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost. What Windows MultiPoint Server Can Do.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. A content library of ready-to-use templates. While not a full-scale LMS, Easygenerator is an eLearning authoring tool that offers course hosting services for organizations. Online course hosting with the ability to generate private links for sharing. Easygenerator.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There are currently two versions of Windows MultiPoint Server – a Standard Edition that hosts up to 10 stations, and a Premium Edition. that hosts up to 20 stations. It is an ideal solution for schools, libraries, small nonprofit offices, and computer labs that are on limited budgets. Both MultiPoint Server.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Whether it's a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit's or library's data and computers are always there. Our Virus Vaccination and Computer Security Forum , hosted by security expert Gary Lamontagne.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images. Present.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Storrito enables users to create Instagram and Facebook Stories on desktop/laptop computers. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. ” Khan Academy’s comprehensive library of content covers a full primary school curriculum plus classes in math, and science including biology, chemistry, and physics. John Merritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I also learned more about crowdmap , a hosted version of the Ushahidi code – in other words you don’t have to install it on your own web server. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. The Decline of PCs.

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