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. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Some takeaways about emergent collaboration: Having a shared goal can really catalyzed the group, without it you get interesting random behavior.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Let's say you're working remotely at your favorite café down the street from your apartment and you get up to put in an order for a late breakfast, forgetting to lock your laptop. On an external keyboard or older laptops, press Ctrl+Shift+Eject. Screen Locking in macOS. Find out how you can get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The Buffer Blog recently published a post, “ Nine Science-Backed Methods for Happier, Productive Meetings ,” that summarized new research and actionable tips for better meetings, including some tips that were new and different – and very useful: Don’t Take Notes with Your Laptop. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Picture it: You're on public transit after a long work day and you accidentally leave your laptop behind. Loss of valuable hardware aside, your laptop is full of confidential data. Encrypting your hard drive can prevent anything happening to your data (though it might not get your laptop back).

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APRIL 14, 2022

Supercharging DevOps; 3 Key Considerations” was one of many conference highlights diving deep into optimizing team collaboration during the building and deployment of Salesforce apps. All of the sessions were educational, practical, and left me with a head full of new ideas to consider and apply once back in the (virtual) office.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Luckily, I backed it up before I left on my laptop, but I lost all the photos I took on my trip.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. . Having launched her own creative agency, Dominique was able to collaborate across cultures and bring creative visions to life through disruptive innovation. .

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do all you can to prevent staff from downloading sensitive data to laptops and memory sticks. NOTE: This post is part of a collaborative effort organized by Convio. Pay attention to confidentiality and security: give staff and volunteers access to the data they need to do their jobs, but no more. And run backups religiously.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

When you're on your laptop, phone or iPad, tweeting or posting to Facebook, you can be nearly sure that the people near you are doing the same thing. We keep up with each other and collaborate, but we rarely meet. That's one incredibly cool thing about NTC: no matter where you go, you can feel the energy. This is my community.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

A common scenario is where the majority of meeting participants in one location, a conference room, and are trying to collaborate with a handful of invisible partners on the other end of phone line or video conference call.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Employees feel isolated, communication suffers, and collaborative efforts plummet. 21 percent of people who work remotely believe collaboration suffers when they’re removed from the office. This is a major risk for the nonprofit sector where collaboration on projects is critical. But—it’s only half the equation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Think about a tool like YouTube, where people can share videos (uploaded and created in various ways from mobile phones to laptop computers to high quality cameras) and then find others who care about similar issues. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. I can also email a link to the file to anyone else, like a collaborator on the document or a staff member that needs a copy. Did I already mention that this is a 24/7 job? No more lost receipts – and automagical expense reports!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

remote workers need in order to maintain workflow and collaboration with colleagues. including, laptops, instant messaging, VoIP, smart phones, and more. collaborate with colleagues, share information, telework, and train. components that should be available to employees who telecommute. confidence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. The Importance of Energizers Throughout. This keeps the training active and helps people attend to the learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

It seemed very inappropriate given that my host, Stephen Blyth , collaborated with Peter Sykes, CEO & Founder at Mangere East Family Service Centre and we held the workshop on a Marae. Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Reducing the amount of travel organizations need to do by using more online teleconferencing and collaboration tools. Our Refurbished Computer Initiative has provided charities and libraries with top quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers at competitive prices and with free end of life recycling for many years.

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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. How can we identify “ free agents” and involve them in our work?

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Instead of joining 15,000 or so folks for the second morning keynote, I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the keynote stream on my laptop. I can see how our top volunteers can use this to connect and collaborate with each other. It's the beginning of Day 2 at Dreamforce , the gigantic Salesforce user conference in San Francisco.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

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. Instead, it allows for collaboration the likes organizations have never before encountered. Perhaps our greatest perceived weakness is our greatest strength.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

backpacks, and laptop stickers. Collaborate with your team to determine which format works well with your goals, and make it happen! Create a survey and send it out to your existing donors so that they can “vote” on the items you’re considering. coupon cards. ABC Fundraising’s list of fundraising ideas. Step 5: Spread the word.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

New Dell discounted laptops. TechSoup has a number of cloud-based donor partners that offer collaboration platforms to ease communications and data sharing between grantmakers and grantees. Symantec Norton Small Business Security Suite. Adobe Creative Cloud. Tableau for data visualization. NetSuite for online accounting, ERP, and CRM.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2013

ReadyTalk Mobile (iPad) makes it easy to jump in on a meeting if you left your work laptop behind. For donated audio and video conferencing software, check out our Communicate and Collaborate solutions page. TechSoup Donor Partners. Although working during vacation isn't ideal, it happens to the busiest of us. Image: ReadyTalk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops).

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. It allows staff to view and reorganize documents in folders on individual laptops and then sync changes to the Box online platform. Sharing Files Around the World. And we've enjoyed the sync function.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 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. Have participants summarize what they heard in their native language.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

After all, they let you work from practically anywhere using almost any device, and they make it easy to collaborate with coworkers. A former employee could still have shared login information stored on a laptop that gets stolen. Cloud-based applications and services are super convenient. Before You Move to the Cloud.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

Don't do this: Why this doesn't work: The image of disembodied, floating paper people selected doesn't offer any information on what the organization does, nor does the image yield any insight on the "cloud-based collaboration tool" referenced. Will Your Audience Relate to the Image? Heck, Do You?).

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

After working out some space (a dedicated meeting room rather than an alcove in the children's area) and equipment (laptops and netbooks rather than tablets) issues, MathAndCoding has become a core children's program for the library, with parents often asking about class availability for next sessions.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2013

On the other hand (and this was Mayer’s main point), working remotely affects both planned and accidental collaboration and can have an impact on the culture or feeling of identification with the organization. On the one hand, it is pretty clear that employees enjoy it, and claim to be even more productive when they do so. They’re not.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Thinking about things alone is one thing, but being a pretty typical collaborative type of nonprofit we pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through this. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month. to scale up RCI in California.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

This means you can start working on a document on your desktop and then continue where you left off on another computer, laptop, or tablet because Office saves your work in the cloud as you go. The notes you take on your desktop or laptop will be accessible from any other computer as well as your tablet and smartphone.

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