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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!

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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. ' and a whole bunch of other data on the end. so it's almost a no-brainer for that reason alone.

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Chromebook for Nonprofits: Are Web Apps All You Need?

Tech Soup

I can migrate their Microsoft Access applications to a free Salesforce account. Now they have no need for local applications or data. They can take them anywhere they need, access all their applications and data, never worry about malware, backups, disaster recovery, etc. Nothing is lost or compromised.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Cloud

Tech Soup

As users keep moving their business-critical applications to the cloud, they realize that there is a reduced need to upgrade their systems. The cloud also reduces the risk of loss owing to stolen or lost data, allowing nonprofits to access enterprise-level security software at a fraction of the cost to purchase it. A Green Initiative.

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. ’ and a whole bunch of other data on the end. so it’s almost a no-brainer for that reason alone.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

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. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. It tracks a teleworkers’ activities including duration and applications used.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Even if data is repurposed across multiple services, it shouldn't feel that way to the end user.

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