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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Green benefits.

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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

Here are just a few of the ways you can green your IT, or use IT to green your organization this Earth Day: Conduct a green office audit. 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. Print green. Buy green electronics.

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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Click it and it turns green, telling you that the ID only is on the clipboard. Apex, Visualforce documentation.it's all there. I'm a developer wannabe at best.

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Click it and it turns green, telling you that the ID only is on the clipboard. Apex, Visualforce documentation…it’s all there. I’m a developer wannabe at best.

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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. For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk. Telework and the Environment.

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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones

Tech Soup

It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. It is also well-integrated and can store documents in the cloud to several services including Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote, Huddle, and several others.