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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. We’re also continuing to see lots of articles like The Guardians’ “ How charities can make better use of social media.”

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You’ve Been Missing Out!

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Browse our selection of refurbished laptops, desktops, and monitors. New to TechSoup, the PhilanTech discount program provides online grants management software to eligible nonprofits and charities. Effective communication with donors, constituents, and the public is essential to the work nonprofits and charities do.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. Legacy of Hope has leveraged Cisco networking equipment donations from TechSoup and some help installing them from Cisco volunteers.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. Mobile Payments.

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Networking Your Nonprofit: The Basics

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We can work at our desks and then take our laptops to meetings without dropping our Internet connection or access to our email. But, like with any complex technology, there's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to networking your nonprofit, charity, or library's offices. Networking Your Nonprofit — Two Scenarios.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

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Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way. The Decline of PCs. The Internet of Things. I hope she's right.

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