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Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face Guest Post By Kari Dunn Saratovsky

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last June, I live blogged the virtual Millennial Donor Summit and it was an interesting experience. Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

Tech Soup

Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients. Grace Ministries International's Jim Shemaria picking up the Virtual Computer Package in Seattle. Grace Ministries has wisely arranged for computer tech-support locally in case of major technical problems.

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The Disposable Computer

Tech Soup

Thin clients can provide the same experience as a desktop by leveraging technology known as a virtual desktop. The big advantage of a virtual desktop is that the environment is controlled. This translates into fewer problems in managing them and lower support costs. A virtual desktop can cost as little as $35 a month.

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Step-by-Step Guide: Nonprofit Walking Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Virtual Meetings: Conference calls, online chats, and webinars. Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

The first step is to admit you have a problem, right? We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Tags: earth environment green greenpeace NPTech techsoup virtualization IT Staff.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. How do you start to tackle this problem?

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NCVS: Mission-Driven Technology Planning

Tech Soup

For organizations with scattered or disarrayed IT environments, it's amazing how different your tech infrastructure can look after you've spent some time documenting it. Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. She's great.