Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Security Camera - Photo by Sirius Rust. In the case of your computing resources and personal data inside that box you call your laptop, or protecting the whole of your home or office network, security is a matter of using specific tools that prevent unprivileged outsiders from getting in. are the tools of the trade here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. What this means?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. 11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. Happy Earth Month! As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. Let's dig in!

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MAY 14, 2009

10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media - Max Gladwell has a guest post at Mashable: "Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Instead of booking a venue or top-tier entertainment, your nonprofit simply needs a solid technology foundation to get started. . For instance, attendees might hop between their email tab and your event, or even close their laptop screen altogether if your virtual event isn’t engaging enough. . According to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Armed with her flip camera and her laptop she, asked people to mimic short clips from the movie. Thank you Holly for all you've accomplished in building, supporting, guiding, and celebrating the Nonprofit Technology community! What a great way to make people feel part of something!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Thin clients can provide the same experience as a desktop by leveraging technology known as a virtual desktop. Tablet computers: So maybe your iPad isn't a replacement for your desktop or laptop, but the Surface Pro is getting awfully close. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500. That trend will continue.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Then it was time to distribute the gifts , including Flip Cameras and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change. Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Put your laptop in the closet and don’t take it with you if you are traveling for your vacation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

He observes that smartphones have already effectively converged with digital cameras, GPS navigators, and MP3 players, making the ownership of those separate devices superfluous for most casual users of them. The near future is looking to be even more mobile with more fully integrated technologies. Photo: Lexinatrix.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

flickr: valleygirl_tka A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. You're doing it wrong if you're spending more time fixing laptops than focusing on strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. Within a room where people are connecting together, those who control the mouse or keyboard, are on camera, and/or are closer to the microphone have an advantage.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

His nonprofit, Smallbean, has delivered solar-powered computer labs and packages of technology — a laptop, solar power, cameras, audiorecording equipment, portable hard drives, coupled with computer education — to.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. Executive director Julie Lyles Carr says: "Anything that helps get the message out through technology is so important." " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.). If you didn't win or didn't sign up, don't worry.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Here's an idea for using smartphones with good cameras and video capability like the Dell Venue Pro touch screen phones for digital story telling: Send someone out to video compelling work that your nonprofit or library is doing out in the field for your holiday message. " May well be. TechSoup has some tools that may come in handy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 I was dancing so I put down my camera, so you won't see me dance in the video above, but you can see it in Preetam's video. Great fun! Click To Play.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Since it is a live event, you might find yourself spread thin if you have to organize the event technology and live streaming platform while also connecting with each attendee through the live chat. . All of these parts can be filtered through a single device, like a laptop. Consider the following equipment: Video Cameras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. The back story is here ). I remember being inspired by it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

I’m really pleased that we’re focusing on technology. We haven’t focused on that yet in the program, and I know it goes without saying that with COVID and shelter-in-place, technology is front and center for all of us, even in ways that we didn’t imagine. So that’s what today is about. And you might recognize that word “Idealware.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

I hadn't been able to put a word to describe it until I came across the Continuous Computing Manifesto " by Wade Roush is a senior editor and West Coast bureau chief for MIT's Technology Review magazine. the digital devices people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones, 2.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Consider hosting a pet-themed auction where people can not only show off their pet on camera but also find some cool items that they wouldn’t be able to get otherwise. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Since it is a live event, you might find yourself spread thin if you have to organize the event technology and live streaming platform while also connecting with each attendee through the live chat. . All of these parts can be filtered through a single device, like a laptop. Consider the following equipment: Video Cameras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture. Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. The session will be very hands-on, participants will be encouraged to their cameras, laptops, and clips. Screencasting Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. My first crowd sourced piece was getting people to help me proof read my pages -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. I had attempted to use my FLIP camera to document us doing the exercise, but I found myself so engaged in the learning versus the documenting, that I only got one clip at the beginining and it was so great. Technology is a dehumanizing. Modeling the norm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. " -rethink what counts as traditional forms of evidence of learning "All our kids have laptops, when we go to museum - kids take their laptops and cameras with them.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

But because of technology and social media, all that has changed. All you need is a laptop with a camera and a broadband connection. Even better, go old-school and plug your laptop in to your broadband router with an Ethernet cable. So I don't recommend using the mic on your laptop, if you can avoid it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. Besides the latest and greatest smartphones and tablets, the conference is a forum for innovation, ranging from green technology to accessibility. Windows Phone 8. App Development Just Got Easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

that lets anyone with an inexpensive web camera and internet connection to broadcast to the world. I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

This column, by the way, will be a monthly feature on mobile technology for nonprofits and charities. After reporting on the mobile industry for PCWorld and TechHive.com and working for TechSoup, I've developed a keen eye for the mobile trends that matter for nonprofits and the technologies that will make an impact in the world.

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