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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. Telework and the Polar Vortex. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

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In 2004 we published our Islands In The Wastestream study, which measured the demand for low-cost computers among U.S. At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? Using the U.S.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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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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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

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I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. Now imagine, before taking a bite, you scrape nearly half that food into the trash.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

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In 2004 we published our Islands In The Wastestream study, which measured the demand for low-cost computers among U.S.-based How Green Is RCI? They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. A Bit About How RCI Started. Using the U.S. Multipoint Server is thin client.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Gavin Clabaugh 's annual PotLatch Program (a regular giveaway of gently used hardware and gadgets) has come and gone. Others suggest that numbers alone don't tell the story.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

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Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Nicole Wallace.