Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is also the time when many organizations host their year-end gala or another major event to drive even more donations. As the digital hub of your nonprofit’s fundraising efforts, your website should be optimized to continuously engage donors for year-round donations, no matter what time of year it is. Motivational imagery.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." A Sickening Discovery. Too Much Freedom?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

You may have recognized the trend: computing (crunching numbers and running programs) is moving away from your computer and is now being delivered as a service over the Internet. Most of us will not need much more than a really good Internet connection and a nice screen to do our work. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. The problem is not the dependency on the technology but it is designed to make money for the creators than a focus on the user-experience. Distraction is still a problem and we need to need to find coping methods.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

2 million UK SMEs don’t have websites – and it’s costing them time, money and customers. The most common reasons listed by business owners for not setting up or improving their websites are that they either don’t have enough time or that they currently can’t handle more customers. They’re too busy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." A Sickening Discovery. Too Much Freedom?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. Internet connectivity is via a T1 line. Public access PCs in this library have dedicated uses: some devices are for viewing the catalog, some are general Internet stations, and some are specifically for job searching and employment research.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

A poor or difficult giving experience tells your donors that their time, effort, and money isn’t valuable to your organization. It’s time to re-evaluate your website’s donation page. According to NP Source, custom-branded embedded donation pages raise six times more money. It’s Embedded On Your Website. Read about them here !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive. I always seem to have computer problems before important presentations (see here and here ). It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

2 million UK SMEs don’t have websites – and it’s costing them time, money and customers. The most common reasons listed by business owners for not setting up or improving their websites are that they either don’t have enough time or that they currently can’t handle more customers. . They’re too busy.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

It’s time to ask some hard questions. In my experience, one or more of these factors is usually at play when fundraising falls flat: Your timing is off. That’s too many Asks in a short period of time which can cause the appeal to fall flat. With a little time and focus, you can become an expert at email marketing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Internet connectivity was via a T1 line. Installation Problems: This was our first test installation, so we had more problems than with the others. Over time we refined our instructions. Firefox didn't have this problem.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Internet connectivity was via a T1 line. Installation Problems: This was our first test installation, so we had more problems than with the others. Over time we refined our instructions. Firefox didn't have this problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

One of the questions was to identify whether or not you are spending too much time online. The question "Is the only time you're offline when you're sleeping or going to the bathroom?" Now that we've acknowledged the problem or a desire to do better, what are the best surefire tips? So, that question was revised!

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Now is the ideal time to take advantage of our programs so you can start fresh and get even more donations and discounts when July arrives. And, feel safe with the new 2014 Bitdefender Internet Security , a product of the year with top marks from PCMag , AV-Test, and AV-Comparatives. Nonprofit Tech Essentials.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2021

Increasingly using technology, the internet, digitization of the assets, and data pose security risks and threats to every business. It is used mainly on the internet-facing network. In the same way, by having a robust high-speed network we can solve the latency problems. Both of them encryptand decrypts text at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me, “How the heck do you make the time to do this? ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! When you walk solo, you have the benefit of working through some problems or helping you generate a creative solution.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Because I spend all day, every day in front of a laptop tweeting about my Facebook links. The problem is, not everyone is in here with us, and many of those people are our clients. The problem is, not everyone is in here with us, and many of those people are our clients. Okay, you can't do that for real, but you get my drift.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

To stop the growing problem of smartphone theft, a state senator in California has introduced a bill that would mandates manufacturers to sell devices with built-in kill switches. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just came out with a new ruling on who will control the Internet and prosper from it – and who will not.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

Millennials realize they've inherited some problems, and are ready to roll up their sleeves to fix them. Holly draws the connection via the Pew Internet & American Life Report that online access is moving away from the laptop experience. Think about ways to ask this generation's opinion in less time-consuming ways.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. It identifies any problems with a runner’s form. is a gadget that brings the Internet of Things into our everyday life. The thing costs $200.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. In 2016, video will continue to be the most interesting media on the Internet.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

More than any other time of the year it's time for charities to tell their compelling story. Some smartphones like iPhones and Dell Venue Pro phones can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and even do Skype calls. Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# After spending close to five hours on the X windows/driver problem I vented about last week. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. I gave up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. That’s how I’d describe 350.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! Today, I did a Webinar called " 10 Steps To Extension 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 5, 2006

Each morning I grabbed my laptop and bopped off to the internet cafe with Doria to have a latte and make sure we weren't missing something in our email that might change our lives. Every time I rebooted, the computer bluescreened. Every time I rebooted, the computer bluescreened. I just got back from a week at the beach.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. That’s how I’d describe 350.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition to the tactical and skills instruction we did with the social media staff on Day 3 and Day 4, we also covered how to manage time and work efficiently – and how to best provide support for the strategies. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2011

There was a time when making a phone call for work meant you needed to be seated at your office desk. Actually the first laptops hit the market 20 years ago and cell phones started shrinking in the early 1990s. The Internet and options for storing files outside of standard onsite servers became available around the same.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

The three of us -- including me, a Product Manager at Forum One -- engaged in a debate on whether the internet pages we see here in the United States can be accessed anywhere else in the world. Can we really debate one laptop per child and mobile access when kids may really just need food, clothes and school books?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That means you can access any of your files anywhere, whether you’re on your work computer, phone, laptop or tablet—as long as you have your login info and an internet connection, you’re set. The post Why Google Might Be the Answer to Your Problems appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Giving by foundations reached an all-time high in 2020. Current data means that your information is timely and up-to-date. Rather, the entire suite of hardware, data, and software is managed by external service providers and made available to end-users over the internet. This growth is certainly welcome.

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