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Closing the Loop Between Social Media and Offline Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was in Oakland, CA and discovered Fenton's Creamery , famous for its ice cream. The line was out the door. Lines are good because you can contemplate that important decision: What flavor? This could be a win-win situation for your nonprofit organization if stop thinking of your social media channel in a silo.

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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. Whether you need permission to post photos you take for your library or charity depends on how they will be used and if the people in the pictures can be identified. Images bring life and interest to anything.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. The Future of Refurbishment.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. The Future of Refurbishment.

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

Candid

Our network of partners includes public libraries, university and community college libraries, public charities, and nonprofit resource centers, including nonprofit associations. Cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Miami now offer access to Candid’s suite of tools at every municipal library.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). The convergence of click-and-mortar youth culture trends, coupled with Search2.0

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

Prices on all this gear will continue to drop in 2015, and the effect on nonprofit offices will be an acceleration of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend. The sharing or peer-to-peer economy is a relatively new Internet trend that arose out of the Great Recession. Amplifying Social Media. The Nonprofit Sharing Economy.

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