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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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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. A paid account is about $150 a year.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Cloud

Tech Soup

This works just as well for local off-site staff members because they can access their work remotely, without the need to set up a virtual private network (VPN). For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey. A Green Initiative.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Why Is Online Collaboration Green? And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel. Related Discussions. Project management tools for remote teams.

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

With the ability to present slides, share links and desktops, conduct polls, and create and store meeting notes, virtual meetings can be more productive than meetings in person. Audio, video, application, and screen sharing (jpg, ppt, pdf, flash, mp3, doc). Today, that’s just about everything and everyone.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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