Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

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. A virtual desktop can cost as little as $35 a month. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500. That trend will continue.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Now that we’re well into 2021 and approaching a post-COVID reality in many parts of the world, nonprofit professionals have pondered what fundraising events will look like with both in-person and virtual engagements. You already know that virtual auction fundraisers are possible and fruitful, but the possibilities are almost endless.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

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. With web-based software, web conferencing, laptops, and smart phones, it's easier than ever to skip the office entirely. Recycle your old equipment.

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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? 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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you, like the rest of the world, have managed to shift to the virtual environment, you may be looking for ways to improve your digital presence. Virtual events are one way that this is possible, and they provide brands with an exceptional way of connecting to target audiences and connecting with future customers. .

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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! Marino said there was an important balance in virtually keeping people engaged without overwhelming them with email communications.

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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!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Virtualization in its various forms. Our Refurbished Computer Initiative has provided charities and libraries with top quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers at competitive prices and with free end of life recycling for many years. Cloud computing. Green webhosting. That part of the site does a good job describing what EPEAT.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

First, employers are ensuring a safe working environment for essential workers and then extending paid time off and health benefits for employees and contractors who are ill, exposed to the virus or have unmet childcare needs. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2013

I always found it funny that the line often associated with Virtual Work is “I get to work in my pajamas!” The issue of virtual or remote work has been very hot since Marissa Mayer of Yahoo asked all of their remote employees to work in a Yahoo office. Virtual work isn’t going to end. It is easy to see both points of view.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you, like the rest of the world, have managed to shift to the virtual environment, you may be looking for ways to improve your digital presence. Virtual events are one way that this is possible, and they provide brands with an exceptional way of connecting to target audiences and connecting with future customers. .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

We like to feature their corporate social responsibility efforts this time of year, especially what they're doing to improve our environment. Symantec: Focusing Even More on the Environment in 2015. Symantec's primary CSR focus in the coming year is the environment. Symantec is also a longtime TechSoup donor partner.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And again, we have a second webinar coming up on October 22 nd , also with the Tech Impact team, about taking your finance office even more virtual, which is something that so many of our participants have been trying to do. Jeanne Bell: All right. Thanks, Karen.

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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. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. There is no real infrastructure. So what do you do?

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Facebook — We post frequently to our TechSoup Facebook page from our laptops, tablets and phones by tagging @TechSoup in our updates. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. Mobile: Sharing Information on the Fly, from Your Smartphone. Crossplatform and Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and Information.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Sophisticated protection stops emerging threats by analyzing the behavior of a given program or process in a virtual environment before it's executed. Large and Small. " Here is a rundown of some of those features: Behavior-based protection in real time. Two-way firewall.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

You can wirelessly connect desktops, laptops, and printers to your network with hardware from the Brocade Donation Program or develop your nonprofit's wired and wireless network with hardware from the Cisco Donation Program. Now, let's get into hardware you'll need. Let's Talk Networking Hardware.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Charles Brennick, Founder and Director of Interconnection , shares his advice for selecting the right access devices for your Windows MultiPoint Server environment. User stations can also be thin clients or traditional desktops or laptops connected to the host computer using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) via the LAN. ThinGlobal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." New learning environment puts games at the center. What does the next generation of learning environments look like? What do libraries look like in the future?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2011

Almost every piece of office equipment made it virtually impossible to work anywhere but the office. Actually the first laptops hit the market 20 years ago and cell phones started shrinking in the early 1990s. They believed that by creating an environment that was focused on results, both the employees and the company would benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. Now, with over a year of virtual meetings under our belts and the future of office-centric work for all being unclear, hybrid meetings are likely to become our new normal. Give your remote participants a seat at the table.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. Virtual Meetings: Conference calls, online chats, and webinars. Walking is the Killer Work App for Creativity.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 2, 2021

At OneCause, we help fundraising organizations—including schools, nonprofits, and other groups—generate the revenue they need to maintain successful operations, specifically through virtual and hybrid events. Over the last year, many fundraisers have been cancelled, rescheduled, or transitioned to the virtual space as a result of COVID-19.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This year the IRS will be asking all taxpayers if they have transacted in “virtual currencies” on their 1040 tax return – further incentivizing potential donors to support their favorite nonprofit to offset their gains. Myth 8: Mining cryptocurrency is bad for the environment. Myth 9: Cryptocurrencies are only for the tech-savvy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

TechSoup and InterConnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

How can a mobile device connect you to the physical environment? Shoot b-roll if you're doing editing and if it is in a noisy environment, include a b-shot of the noise source. As Ethan says - "the more interaction we have virtually, the more important it becomes to see people face to face). Rule of thirds.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Our online personas and the quality of our “screen sharing” have become part of our identities.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process. This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Our online personas and the quality of our “screen sharing” have become part of our identities.

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