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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! It’s Time for Next Generation Virtual Collaboration by Civicist – tips for online collaboration. Show & Tell: Remote Work Tips for Collaboration and Generosity (via Edith Asibey & Jamie Lonie).

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How to Train and Develop Millennials

Gyrus

Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. We move to our smartphones, to our laptops, to the attached screens on our desk, and at any time we could have hundreds of active tabs open and ready for our immediate use. How to Train and Develop Millennials.

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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. All Day, Anywhere Collaboration. About the Author. Image 1 : Africa Studio / Shutterstock.

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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. There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. We think Watchitoo.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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How to Train and Develop Millennials Today?

Gyrus

Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. We move to our smartphones, to our laptops, to the attached screens on our desk, and at any time we could have hundreds of active tabs open and ready for our immediate use. How to Train and Develop Millennials.