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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

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I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Creative Reuse: A Universal Language. About the Success Stories Contest.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email).

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. Let's Encrypt is a project in cooperation with the University of Michigan, the nonprofit Mozilla, and TechSoup donor partner Cisco. Cheaper Consumer Electronics.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. And The Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners Are… In November Microsoft launched the first Windows 8 Apps for Social Good contest. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m a product of the Great Lakes and have a degree in technical writing from Michigan Technological University. I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Our Flickr photo contest. s annual digital photo contest. but wouldn???t