Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Microsoft's Lync 2013 is a unified communications application that enables users to talk to each other in a variety of ways, using instant messaging, voice, or video. Lync also integrates with Microsoft Exchange , Office 2013 , and SharePoint , and can incorporate an entire organizational phone system. What Lync 2013 Does.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. Fairphone wanted to do something more so they decided to make their dream earth-friendly phone a reality. American Mobile Phone Recycling on the Rise.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. ” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

In this grantmaking area, too, The Fund was key to Bookshare’s global expansion and to our ability to better serve low-income users, in developing and developed countries alike. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!) Benetech announced this commitment at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. Hacker Helper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. The use of selfies helps mobilize library fans in a new way and make going to the library a more integrated online experience. Fedoras for Faireness. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Location : Global, country, region, state and city. It encompasses a vast array of activities from developing mobile phone apps to launching advocacy campaigns to strengthening the policies and infrastructures involved in media creation, transmission and access. This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. The increase in use of mobile devices has led us to a place where mobile fundraising can no longer be ignored.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013. Africa now has more mobile phone users than either the U.S. or European Union or Latin America.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. ADB's work is in three main areas: Local.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

Let’s consider how much has changed in tech over the last 4 years: Since 2013, we’ve seen the adoption of the smart phone, the start of smart watches, selfies, and touch ID. And perhaps most notably, 2013 was also the beginning of responsive design (Mashable). Apple Pay). Multiscreen Supporters.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. Remember, it only includes sample data from 2013 right now, but 2014 data is coming soon!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. Well, the time is upon us.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. ” that explains what Internet.org aims to do and how it aims to do it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. Windows Phone 8. Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 had solid representation at the show with Nokia showing off a few new smartphones, including the Lumia 520 and Lumia 720. Mobile Green Tech.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. We dispose of over 130 million cell phones every year of which 11 percent are recycled. About half of all people in Africa own mobile phones. or Latin America. Latin America.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

We want to leapfrog the current unjust equilibrium (blind people are read to, but mostly not) to a new place where the widespread availability of cheap mobile phones and MP3 players can be harnessed. This breakthrough instrument was negotiated in 2013 and has now been signed by over eighty countries.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. Mobile Computing. The Forecasts for 2012.

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