Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

They persuaded her to run the place long enough to get it back on its feet. Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees.

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Award Louisiana Bolivia Hurricane 78

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

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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Czech Republic Volunteer Build Chile 57

Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 55

Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. Your learning management systems are a wealth of knowledge for external parties, as such it is best to view the safeguards in place to secure the system in the event of any type of external exposure. What is the disaster recovery plan?

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Develop Learning Industry System 61

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Now, despite scary examples of hackers exploiting the cloud, if you run a very small organization with no IT staff and no one to help maintain local servers with regular updates, security patches, and upgrades, then the cloud may be the safest place for your data. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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Celebrate Phone Internet Mobile 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Know of any?

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 5, 2006

Each morning I grabbed my laptop and bopped off to the internet cafe with Doria to have a latte and make sure we weren't missing something in our email that might change our lives. After all, this was your typical near disaster that illustrates the zen of computer problem solving. I just got back from a week at the beach.

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Laptop Files Problem Disaster 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos.

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Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

They remind me a lot of Rod Beckstrom's ideas that I posted earlier about IT support following a disaster. The two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. I thought her comments would be worth posting.

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Hurricane Disaster National Phone 100

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We haven’t focused on that yet in the program, and I know it goes without saying that with COVID and shelter-in-place, technology is front and center for all of us, even in ways that we didn’t imagine. And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? So no, you can’t watch Netflix at work.

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Policy Team Virtual Tech 102

Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2011

Two employees sustained minor injuries: one woman broke her arm and another has thousands of abrasions on his back sustained when the place in which he took shelter collapsed. We have set up our laptop lab for overflow from the regular lab. Two others sustained significant damage. The library is open normal hours today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You invite guests to a specific place at a specific time, introduce them to each other, encourage conversation around a specific topic (although there might be tangents) and hope people have a good time. Throw a party – with a purpose. No, not a cocktail party…a Twitter party. More specifically, a “Twitter Chat.” It’s A Group Exercise.

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Social Media Twitter Impact Media 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 96

Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I guess a good place to start is looking back at forecasts from January 2012. We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers.

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