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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. 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.

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years. Global mobile data traffic is up 81% from the previous year. About a quarter of Internet traffic is now on smartphones, and about a third of all mobile phones (5.2 Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 It’s back to the future.”

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How to Set Up an Instagram Printer for Your Next Event

Tech Soup

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. Instagram is a photo-sharing app (for Android phones and the iPhone) that has a built-in social network. Andreas used this workflow.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Global climate change is beginning to affect our lives in a real way. Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? We are approaching a time when just about everyone should be thinking hard about use of fossil fuels, consumption and waste.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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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What is continuous computing and how does it potentially impact nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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