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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

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Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. And then actually marketing those tasks! We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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Also, TechSoup Donor partner, Citrix , recently determined that the business PC market is actually growing, not shrinking. The consumer PC market is the one that is shrinking. Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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During those two years, not only has the used computer market been in question, but also there has been major buzz in the IT press about whether or not we're entering a “post PC” era. How Does This Impact the Used Computer Market? The used computer market essentially starts with new computers.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser

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While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, April 3-9

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Elliot wonders what the end of Encarta means for libraries and education nonprofits. Becky summarizes Frogloop's advice from SXSW about social media marketing. Donate Your Brain. Chris offers some simple, realistic ways in which libraries can save money. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

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According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” This page from Cleveland’s Public Library (Woot!) Casting Digital Shadows: What Is It, Really, and Remind Me Why I Care? …How'd it go?! Interested in seeing more?

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