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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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5 Questions: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors

NTEN

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al., Banks were not lending.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. They don’t tend to lead to widespread adoption that benefits people with disabilities directly, though. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Ordering in the program has been steadily increasing from the program’s inception in 2000.

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