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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

You can buy beautiful, handmade gifts made by artisans from companies and organizations like World of Good , Be Sweet , Global Girlfriend , The Amber Chand Collection and New Mexico Creates. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

the digital devices people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones, 2. the global Internet and its growing store of socially-generated knowledge and Web-based, on-demand social applications. Does this make it more compelling for nonprofits to be adopting some of these new tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Check out Steve Dembo's Geek Toys that'll give you Geekbumps which includes the Give One Get One XO Laptop Campaign (hurry offer ends on November 30th) and a Chumby (hmm. Global Development Matters is a new site with lots of video, quizzes on global development and extensive q/a on a variety of global development project.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. based National Center for Charitable Statistics and adopted by the IRS back in the pre-Web 1980s. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Best Friends Animal Society allows its supporters to create blogs on their Best Friends Network around animal, and animal adoption issues that they care about. Urban Sprouts , a school gardening program, allows volunteers, as well as staff, to post on their blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

After a short conversation with ENCLUDE they were able to identify an affordable solution - they need to build an appropriate ICT support at three levels: To build a solid foundation with Windows 7 and Office 2010 on all desktops and laptops - all donated via the TechSoup donation program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Betsy, a former teacher with a Master's in Education and Learning Disabilities, has a keen understanding of what educators need to adopt Bookshare.org and other technology in the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The audience consisted mostly of social media early adopters who shared terrific insights that come from having a sense of context. The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest no-kill shelter, North Shore Animal League uses their site to promote animal adoptions as well as donations and volunteer sign-ups. Plus, North Shore Animal League puts their cause at the center of their site by packing their site with adoptable pets. And who could say no to their faces?).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Whether you want to display your work on a local, national, or global map, this is a visually-compelling new way to tell your nonprofit’s story. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. As Twitter and Google Plus still adopt their more business-focused strategies, nonprofits will benefit from the added functionality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We got about 75 applications and one of them came from Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, which is called GRACE. You can look at the covers of Vanity Fair , Newsweek or Time and everyone wants to run the next story about Al Gore or about global warming becoming accepted as fact.

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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. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. for some time now.

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