Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Facebook — We post frequently to our TechSoup Facebook page from our laptops, tablets and phones by tagging @TechSoup in our updates. NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices. Voice Recorders. Floppy disks/CD-ROMs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Since participants were from organizations working on similar content areas, this helped everyone. The Importance of Energizers Throughout. This keeps the training active and helps people attend to the learning. Since we are trying to build a network of learners, it is very important to encourage participants to be the leaders and teachers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Laptops roasting by a wood fire. Check the Wiki at the above link for more information. Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Think about a tool like YouTube, where people can share videos (uploaded and created in various ways from mobile phones to laptop computers to high quality cameras) and then find others who care about similar issues. link] is a climate change wiki. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. We had wifi in the room and participants brought their laptops – this give us the opportunity for open lab time or what I call “shoulder to shoulder” learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Text messaging. What People Were Saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. I only did so because one of the prizes was a laptop and my current one is on its last legs. These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. There's some execellent content there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). You can find the slides and resources at my Arts and Social Media wiki. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Susan Chun who spoke about the Steve project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.?

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. Has anyone put any of the advice into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. It was before the commercial web. It was all about community. I volunteered to be the Dance Cybrarian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. Some Cambodians may have more than one phone as Borin explains here Borin also writes about how he uses his mobile phone with his laptop to get online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. You've got to love their logo.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter. Feedburner. Google Analytics. Identify pilot(s) to identify cost/benefit (Listen, Learn, Adapt).

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

2) Get a wiki. I also have a remote connection to my home (business) laptop available at all times. The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. and then click on the wiki. So it is another way of saving paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. Green Laptops One Laptop Per Child give one, get one has been extended to December 30th. Here's why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently. It's called Moulin.

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