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Walking While Working

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops.

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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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices.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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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The morning also includes sharing the principles of successful social media, a talk that I have been giving and refining over the past 5 years and changes with new trends and developments in social media. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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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.

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How to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Nonprofit BYOD Workplace

Tech Soup

In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop. The trend has a name: BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device. Donate your brain and join the TechSoup forums to talk about BYOD policies at your organization. That’s not a bad thing. Image: lars_o_matic.

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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just finished up on January 10 th so we thought we’d call out some of the products and trends that we hope are fun and interesting to nonprofit techies. It was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display.

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Healthy and Productive Meetings: Free Guidestar Webinar on Feb. 12th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops.

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