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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Try to avoid a busy calendar with too many calls. Virtual Conference/Meeting Software Comparison spreadsheet comparison of different platforms from Giving Tuesday. Zoom backgrounds have become very popular lately.

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Leaving Apple Behind

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time. resides in Google’s data centers.

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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. Cloud technology can act as a great simplifier for many organizations, including nonprofits. About the Author.

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