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How to Report Live from Nonprofit Events and Conferences

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Trend of Live Reporting During Events. Equipment: You’ll need a laptop and smartphone and easy access to charging stations during the event. At the end of event, update your event landing page with for the next year’s event , if applicable. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. org , bsr17.org org , bsr18.org.

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Harnessing generative AI for good

Candid

The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples. Yes, new applications are sexy and garner press coverage. This equally applies to technology.

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The Disposable Computer

Tech Soup

You may have recognized the trend: computing (crunching numbers and running programs) is moving away from your computer and is now being delivered as a service over the Internet. Plus, this trend is accelerating. That trend will continue. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500. Your computer will be disposable.

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

NTEN

A growing trend among organizations is to get out of the business of owning servers entirely. Instead, they're either renting them from a managed service provider or moving to Software as a Service (SaaS) for common applications. The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. What do you think?

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

Forum One

There are now 140,000 applications available for the iPhone and most of them are expected to run on the iPad. The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Therefore, innovative and influential nonprofit organizations must monitor these trends carefully.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up?

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.