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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year. Digital Inclusion.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was all about early aggregation! Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc. In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. The Typo Police Page.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. FrontlineSMS:Medic helps coordinate health workers using FrontlineSMS , a free software platform enabling large-scale, two-way text messaging using a laptop, mobile phones, and a GSM signal.

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? So, some patterns I'm seeing on how this is being done.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. NTC is just days away!

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

Tech Soup

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. Identifying Nearby Resources. LocalFreeWeb.