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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

Tech Soup

Prepare Your Organization for Any Disaster. Help prepare your organization for any type of disaster with our disaster planning and recovery guide. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief. Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Webinar Recap.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. Nancy Jo's and CACRC's work in frontline disaster relief was featured in Sundance Channel's "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" series. They came from Alaska, from ad agencies on Madison Avenue, from everywhere.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

Like their meteorological namesakes, data clouds can be life sustaining, or they can rain down havoc on your business, wash away your profits, and leave you in a state of emergency. Any system sitting on a server – or data sitting on a laptop – in your office is exposed to the risk of physical theft.

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Post Tornado, the Library Is Open in Joplin

Tech Soup

We have set up our laptop lab for overflow from the regular lab. I know she barely scratched the surface with those incidents, since that particular hospital was designated as a place for only life-threatening cases. Today people are beginning to come in for computer use. Your prayers for the city and my daughter are appreciated.

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