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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! Virtual Conference/Meeting Software Comparison spreadsheet comparison of different platforms from Giving Tuesday. And it can be exhausting staring at a screen most of the day. Virtual Happy Hours – How-To.

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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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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each push pin (that looks like a MacBook Pro) is a page from a travel diary written by his new laptop. The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. It's worth a few minutes to get a good laugh.

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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. I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time.

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Mindfulness, Unplugging and Social Media Envy

Have Fun - Do Good

Last weekend, from sundown, March 4th to sundown, March 5th, I turned off my cell phone, laptop, and TV as part of the National Day of Unplugging. Witnessing their evolution can inspire you, and, if you put on your comparison glasses, bite you with the envy bug. It was awesome. My head was clearer. I felt less stressed.

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Latest (and Earliest) Review of Windows 7

Tech Soup

A lot of his observations are based in comparison to Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS' Snow Leopard (which is somewhat a moot point because you can't install Snow Leopard on any computer other than an Apple computer).

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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. About the Author. Image 1 : Africa Studio / Shutterstock.

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