Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

As part of celebrating Earth Day throughout the month of April, we'll be featuring posts about how to make your nonprofit or library. remote workers need in order to maintain workflow and collaboration with colleagues. remote workers need in order to maintain workflow and collaboration with colleagues. confidence.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. to scale up RCI in California. Fast Forward to 2012.

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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 lot depends on your technological resources. A former employee could still have shared login information stored on a laptop that gets stolen. Technology moves quickly, and so does cloud security.

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Mind Tips Sharepoint Accessibility 58

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. This may be you, or a bit of you; I'm often collaborating with folks, including other staff here at Database Designs, who slice up the tool pie differently. OK, enough preliminaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Over fifty avatars attended. I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? In September, we asked nonprofits and libraries to show us exactly how technology activates their organization and helps fulfill their mission. Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. It was all about community. I volunteered to be the Dance Cybrarian. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. Urban Sprouts Executive Director, Abby Jaramillo, brought her laptop to one meeting with a funder and showed them the positive comments written on a post by teachers and students who were being served by the program.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Keep a library of training materials.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Keep a library of training materials.

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Lesson Cancer Learning PDF 96

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. Storrito enables users to create Instagram and Facebook Stories on desktop/laptop computers.

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Tools Resource Free PDF 350

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library.

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