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The Nonprofit Cloud: The Right Choice For Total Cost Of Ownership

TechImpact

In the case of technology, and more specifically, on-premise hosting and computing options, the typical lifespan of a system is 3-5 years. You shouldn’t include external costs like power, physical security, cooling, and Internet connections, because these can vary wildly month to month.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

What has been your biggest technology disaster this year? Collaborative technology is incredible. In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. I’m sure we each have stories like this.

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“Two Events in One”: How Celebrity Waiters Put on a Successful Hybrid Fundraiser

Greater Giving

This is a viable solution in venues with a reliable internet connection, good bandwidth, low latency and quality on-stage lighting. To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. *

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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail. We had a very reliable Internet connection. Since the meeting was taking place in Los Angeles, FFOG was graciously allowed me to present remotely with Liz Karlin.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.