Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

It’s been awhile since I posted on the TechSoup for Libraries blog on whether digital books and the devices that people use to read them like Kindles, Nooks, and tablet computers are greener than printed books. libraries now carry them as free downloads on their websites. More than three quarters of U.S. Interesting stuff.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

For this month's column, I'm going to dissect the latest entry into the smartphone field: the Amazon Fire Phone. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. The long-awaited "Amazon phone" is finally here and it's goal is to make shopping that much easier. It runs on Amazon's own Fire OS 3.5,

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 15, 2021

We’re living in the world of Amazon,” Dana reminded us. She also shared her source for finding inspiration for beautiful ads: The Facebook Ads Library ! After looking into it, she realized that when donors tried to give a gift on mobile, they were redirected to a second donate page. Confusion ensued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island. There were about 50 people there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2009

If you have ten minutes to spare, please take our Emergency Preparedness Survey for Nonprofits and Public Libraries. Please forward this survey to your colleagues at nonprofits, NGOs, or libraries. We're overhauling the manual and toolkit, and we need your help! Respond by July 10 to be eligible for the drawing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out. Use an external service like Dropbox, Amazon S3, or Google. Virus scanning: if something happens with your nonprofit’s site, deep level scans and malware cleaning are included.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

My understanding is that this was very important to the University of Michigan, one of the key libraries at the center of the Google Book project. A significant slice of the settlement agreement is on the topic of access to Google Books by people with print disabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

For those folks in a position to choose which database software to use, (for example, you use VPS systems like Amazon, Slicehost, Linode, etc.,) From the website : In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL : all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

We'll kick this off with a completely original, new, and free fundraising service for charities, churches, and libraries. It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. Airbnb Social Impact Experiences. Mobile Beacon.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced. If you missed the event or would like to revisit the highlights, check out our on-demand content and resource library. For more information about the Product Roadmap session, please visit the Trailblazer community here. Watch On Demand. About the Author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. Then help implement these tools. It’s easier than it sounds.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2011

Currently the top selling electronic devices are e-readers like the Amazon Kindle , the Barnes & Noble Nook , the Sony Reader , and also the Apple iPad , which runs the iBooks application , a free e-book reader program and gateway to Apple's iBookstore. The question is: are e-readers greener than books? read more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

It turns out that in the process of creating Cloudkick, the folks there came up with libcloud – a library that service providers could use to give developers access to the services needed by the servers – list, restart, create, destroy, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

It turns out that in the process of creating Cloudkick, the folks there came up with libcloud – a library that service providers could use to give developers access to the services needed by the servers – list, restart, create, destroy, etc.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you already know many of the ways TechSoup helps nonprofits and libraries to achieve more using technology. TechSoup Boost is similar to subscription services like Netflix, Spotify Premium, and Amazon Prime. Meet TechSoup Boost. What Is Boost, Anyway?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

In our quest to shine a light on shine a light on what's going on in green IT for nonprofits, libraries, and really anyone running or working in a small to medium sized office, we'd be remiss to not call some attention to a new book by UK-based author, Mark O'Neill called Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Live topics, which are now available in an on-demand library , included networking transformation, SD-WAN, and mobile edge computing. . To accommodate this shift, Cisco used its powerful event technology to bring together Cisco Live as a two-day virtual event.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2010

Most of the products either haven't hit the market yet or are at pricepoints out of reach for most average folks — and especially out of reach for many nonprofits, libraries, and public service organizations. For those of you who share my guilty pleasure, CNET has a great series of posts with highlights from the full event.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

It's packed with practical theories, rags-to-relevance case studies, and inspiring stories from museums and libraries, theaters and parks, dance companies and orchestras, afterschool programs and activists, churches and synagogues. Maybe you just want to read the book and write an Amazon review. Writing a book is lonely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Food for poor families, water in Sudan, trees in the Amazon, etc. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. Big brands like Kraft Foods and Citi. are examples of the causes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates. The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story!

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Live topics, which are now available in an on-demand library , included networking transformation, SD-WAN, and mobile edge computing. . To accommodate this shift, Cisco used its powerful event technology to bring together Cisco Live as a two-day virtual event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. Another big treat is for me is Amazon Overnight Delivery. For me there is nothing like the thrill of curling up in bed with a book or polishing off a (hopefully good) blog post.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

It is looking for people in nonprofits and libraries that have servers and who would be willing to do a short interview with Drew Bennett of NRDC sometime in May to tell your story. You may have heard about the Googles and Amazons of the world striving to make their enormous datacenters more energy efficient.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In April, Amazon had an eight hour outage. Endpoint-Level Security at Your Library or Nonprofit - Thursday, September 8, at 11:00 a.m. This outage compromised sensitive data for Sony's 77 million customers. The list of 2011 cloud failures in is impressive. Additional TechSoup Resources. Pacific time. TechSoup's Security Corner.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

available for free at your library and on the web. If you are serious about selling books through channels beyond your own website, there are really only two options--CreateSpace (owned by Amazon) and Lightening Source (owned by Ingram). Why does it matter that CreateSpace is owned by Amazon? And that shocked me. respectively.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Amazon will mail you cereal. "One-time only sale!" " "Buy now or miss out on the deal!" Make It Easy: Sell Tickets Online. I know that sounds basic, but people buy everything online now. "Cyber Monday" is in the dictionary.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This decision is largely because of a clash of titans between huge economic entities like big ISPs one side, like Comcast and AT&T, and content providers like Amazon and Netflix on the other side. He taught me how to listen for the pulse and passions of charities and libraries over social media. He was our social media manager.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

This includes things like: Outsourced infrastructure: you rent server space and bandwidth to do with as you see fit, such as Amazon's S3. I personally liked the definition presenter Peter Campbell, of Earthjustice , used: an outsourced platform, application, or suite of applications delivered over the Internet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

To counteract all of this somewhat negative mobile news, I'm also highlighting a very positive story on digital inclusion and public libraries. Amazon Fire Phone Teardown. Our friends at iFixit recently did one of their teardowns of the Amazon Fire Phone. Marin Libraries Helping Close Digital Divide. Let's dig in!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Amazon doesn't let you write reviews for the fun of it. One of the most clever no-tech ratings system I've heard of is at a library in Sweden. The library has two book drops, one for regular books, and one for amazing books. They do it because it creates a credible, self-reinforcing engine of information about their products.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Bookshare is terrific, but it’s fundamentally a separate system where a specialized library becomes the primary source of books for its patrons. Our vision is that the same ebooks available through mass channels like the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad should be fully accessible. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Wish List Supply Drive Using Amazon or another e-commerce site, nonprofits can set up wish lists that donors can buy directly from and have it shipped. The apps are typically designed around the needs of the cause, like creating a pet-finding app for an animal shelter or a library app for an English literature association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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