TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

By equipping these motivated students with essential tools to succeed in a professional IT environment, young adults are on the fast tract to earning a better living for life. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. But the program doesn’t stop there. Donate this. 160 ensures one student can complete the A+ certification.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 5, 2022

According to the PCI Security Standards Council, “ The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that all entities involved in storing, transmitting or processing credit card information maintain a secure environment.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Participants take part from anywhere using a cell phone or laptop to connect to the event. Sometimes, you can get away with just a laptop with a webcam for a simple live-streaming event. The post How to Host a Virtual Fundraiser appeared first on Qgiv Blog. First, what is a virtual fundraiser?

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

Throughout the day, I'll be living blogging sessions from MCON12, a virtual conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. Holly draws the connection via the Pew Internet & American Life Report that online access is moving away from the laptop experience. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Restructuring office environments such as adding adjustable or standing desks. There are lots of ways to hack an inexpensive standing desk , personally I use this inexpensive adjustable laptop stand. Exercise or moving around is one of the basic pillars of good health, sleep is another. Monitoring sitting or walking time.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

As such, we are comfortable in most environments, are quick to adapt at the introduction of a foreign software and interface, and willing to take on complicated items they may seem daunting to the world before us. Multi-tasking. Perhaps our greatest perceived weakness is our greatest strength. To many, this is construed as a distraction.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 23, 2020

Most users can access their emails on a laptop/computer and on their mobile device, in fact 53% of emails are opened on mobile devices! Email marketing is paperless, so better for the environment than sending leaflets and letters and also considerably cheaper. Its direct and mobile (but not intrusive). It’s paperless! Why Twenti?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. Visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog or comment below! How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? What do you think?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Here’s a checklist for that will save money on electricity and also help out the environment. Shut down all non-server computers : Don't leave desktop and laptop computers in sleep mode. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc. Saving Energy With Your IT.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. News & World Report’s Best Nonprofit Management Programs blog. Check out the TechSoup blog and the grant writing section.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. Assessment Creation Tool. You are definitely reading that correctly.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. We operate our Refurbished Computer Initiative , which provides reliable, warrantied desktop and laptop computers to U.S. IT discards that find their way in to landfills have toxics in them that poison our environment. are reused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. I put out a call for a session "Mobile Blogging and Video Blogging: I know nothing, educate me."

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Blog Commencement. In order to properly write this blog post, I will be writing in accordance with the rules of the first Presidential Debate. I flipped a coin to determine whether or not I should even write this post, and then another to determine which of my two monitors I would be focused on for the duration of this blog post.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Read more posts on our blog. Then, of course, there's Big Data , which may or may not tranform the social sciences -- hopefully not in the same way Big Oil helped transform the environment. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. " You're certainly not going to get many Twitter followers with that philosophy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). There is no real infrastructure. Mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last June, I live blogged the virtual Millennial Donor Summit and it was an interesting experience. After triple checking to ensure you have your iPad, mobile phone, laptop, and all of your respective chargers in tow — you board a flight, land in a new city, and head straight for the convention center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? The FeetFirst site suggests that these tasks are perfect for walking meetings: Educate and inform ; educate about things in the environment while experiencing and demonstrating them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2007

As look at my aging laptop, I'm thinking about the next computer which will most likely be a MAC. Also check out Mission Fish's spotlight on the environment! Happy Earthday! However, I just wanted to clip this wonderful article about " How to Buy a Green Computer " by Jasmin Malik Chua. Hat tip to Elisa Camahort ).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). and valuable ? for the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Since I'm going to Podcamp , I'm summarizing this bit of wisdom from the N-TEN Discuss List: Any recommendations on a decent microphone that will plug into a laptop? Be careful because some of these require "phantom" power from whatever they are plugged into, your laptop's jack will not provide this. sku=701368.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2013

Just as an email does not convey the same “weight” of a face-to-face conversation, banging out work on the laptop from home is not the same experience for the worker or his/her colleagues as someone in the building. This is a point that Foster makes well in his guest post on the RepMan blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

The session opened with a question on whether students should be allowed to use laptops in the class to take notes or not. Panelists expressed a range of views -- raised questions as to whether having the laptop was a distraction or barrier to learning or not. no dancing, piano playing or flying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The problem is that walking is perceived as a “break activity,” not part of work as explained in this Harvard Business Review blog post, “ Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It A Break.” I even presented a walking keynote on walking! Walking is the Killer Work App for Creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table. Center Inclusion. Inclusion is the “I” word in “DEI.”

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Caution: No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog. Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Millions of people were laid off or furloughed, while millions more were sent off with their laptops and their monitors to work from home.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The First ONE campaign officially launched with an on-campus reception where laptops were available allowing supporters to register. And the environment was festive! Images from the kick off reception were posted on the foundation’s social media sites, shared among various student group sites and blogs as well as the student newspaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

What he was saying that you have to integrate periods of time where you can step way from the computer and distraction and reconnect with yourself and the environment. Bradley Horowitz from Google was very funny, he said, "You have to learn how to turn gmail off and live in it, in my case I can turn all of email off."

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Learn about how to acquire auction items, set up your auction, and run your auction in a virtual environment 10 Steps to Planning a Fundraising Silent Auction. Garden Party Auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. He suggested that a biggest value of my participation at Packard as visiting scholar, was modeling how to be connect with professional networks via social media - the blogging and twittering that I'm doing. 4) Simplicity Scales. He used the metaphor of the ants.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Caution: No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog. Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Millions of people were laid off or furloughed, while millions more were sent off with their laptops and their monitors to work from home.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2005

It might seem like a reasonable trade-off in an environment where money is always a bit scarce. Sarah's laptop can't come up on the old projector; Joe is back on Excel 97; the graphics software won't work with Jack's video card. Not a pretty picture. But it avoids having money encumbered for a need that might not arise this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

We have to create an environment of trust around the information we collect and be crystal clear about where it’s going. From restricting wireless access points to encrypting data on your organization’s portable laptops, keeping a secure environment is an integral part of preventing data leakage and upholding your constituents’ trust.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. A WMS system provides an overall cost and energy savings of 66 percent compared to a traditional 1:1 computing environment. They cost from $150 to $200 per unit.

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