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

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. to scale up RCI in California. low-income household.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got on the Internet in the early days when it was social media. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. This was all about early aggregation! What were your first steps into social media?

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

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LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. The user will receive a text with the three closest locations that have free Internet access. The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. Bond & Me. Image 1: Caravan Studios.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. Twubs :: twubs.com.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

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By that I think she means that the Internet of Things (IoT) will become more evident and more a factor in our lives in 2014. IoT is the trend in which non-human things are more and more connected through the Internet to each other. She was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology. Marnie Webb.