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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

Here are just a few of the ways you can green your IT, or use IT to green your organization this Earth Day: Conduct a green office audit. Print green. Join the Green IT Consortium on LinkedIn. With web-based software, web conferencing, laptops, and smart phones, it's easier than ever to skip the office entirely.

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5 Reasons Why VOIP Is The Future Of Nonprofit Communication

TechImpact

Here are 5 ways nonprofits can benefit from VOIP services, according to VOIP Review. Additionally, the majority of providers offer mobile apps and software platforms that can be downloaded to smart phones and laptops to be taken anywhere by your employees. Green technology. Free long-distance calling.

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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

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. Green benefits. But what is cloud computing? The future is bright for cloud computing.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Cloud

Tech Soup

Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. A Green Initiative. All Day, Anywhere Collaboration.

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Announcing 2 Free Options for Donating Your Used Hardware

Tech Soup

One is for consumers interested in donating laptops and phones. How Individuals Can Donate Laptops and Phones. InterConnection now offers a free mail-in donation program allowing anyone, anywhere in the country to donate a working laptop, smartphone, or tablet by simply mailing it in to Interconnection. Image 1: InterConnection.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? Green Hosting. There are a ton of hosting companies claiming that they are “green hosting.&# Green hosting companies are just like any other hosting company. Just Google it.

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Thank You RCI Customers!

Tech Soup

We've hit something of a benchmark in this successful program: we've distributed a little over 50,000 refurbished devices through RCI — including laptops, monitors, servers, and tablets. The Greatest Benefit. Green IT greentech Recycled and Refurbished Computers' Saving Devices from the Landfill. We Thank You.