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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Print green.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

He is an electrical engineer, having worked for several years in management for large electronics companies like Philips Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices. He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Google Drive Mobile is a free app for viewing and editing Google Docs on an Android phone or tablet. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

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. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. Do you have a laptop that will work for you to do heavy technology tasks? Like I thought I was working with X company, but now it turns out they were acquired by Y company.