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Easy Credit Card Payments for Your Nonprofit (Sharing the NTC Bookstore Experience)

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You plug a tiny reader, the approximate height and length of a donut hole and width of your finger, into the headphone jack of an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and swipe a credit card through it. Let’s say someone wants to buy a t-shirt and a copy of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Case Study: Providing Event Attendees with Wireless Internet via Mobile Broadband

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By Jason Samuels, Manager of Information Technology, National Council on Family Relations. In the four years that I’ve been responsible for planning and negotiating conference A/V and other technology expenses for NCFR, I’ve had my eye on mobile broadband as a potential lower-cost alternative for providing internet access.

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NTC Science Fair Preview: Show & Tell and Giveaways!

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In just 2 days, we'll be opening up the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference with the Science Fair ! Alternative Technologies : "The Doctor Is IN": Alternative Technologies will have a Senior Network Consultant at their Science Fair booth, available to answer any technical questions you want to pose.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

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The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. This simply means that disabled people often have little money and can't afford the assistive technology that would greatly enhance their lives.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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Let's take a look at where the technology to make this all happen is going -- and where it's coming up short. . Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work. We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. Have you hugged your servers lately?

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

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Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? The goal isn't to have fun as much as to pass the time--and games can fill that role as easily as books, ipods, or dropped cell calls. Serious games offer one example.

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

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Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The fact that nine manufacturers are currently developing iPad alternatives is evidence that the industry is taking this tablet thing pretty seriously. So, clearly, tablet computing is coming, ready or not.

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