Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a 5 pound laptop you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. On August 14th, I’m doing a FREE webinar with Soapbox Engage on how to raise more money and not burnout.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

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.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. No matter what prompts the conversation though, it almost always circles back to the same place: productivity.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

This photo was taken when Little Judy handed up her laptop to one of the presenters in Advanced Tools Session when there was a technical problem. advanced tools Originally uploaded by image415. Even though they gave her pieces of chocolate, it was an act of caring. I wonder if this would be one of Nancy White's indicators of a community ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

from Gavin's Flickr Photo Stream. Gavin has posted some early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Flickr Photo. One of his new projects will be a IT & Youth program for Youth Council of Cambodia and he is seeking advice about laptops for the rural provinces. Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He just emailed me to let me know that he got a promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

Viirak (the guy behind the stickered laptop ) and Be Chantra were there to help. I am thinking now that Flickr 90 second video would be awesome, although I'm sure the Internet access in that remote province is definitely cell and slow. Mean Lux wrote a blog post , but it is in Khmer can't translate fully. Videos to come shortly!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). What Is Web 2.0? social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. Your subscribers will be reading your text messages on their mobile phones, not their desktops or laptops. Simple text pitches aren’t enough to compel people to subscribe.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

You can also share your live Twitter feed, Facebook page, and Flickr. They're more portable than a laptop, and they have larger display screens than mobile phones. Like PowerPoint, SlideRocket lets you create customized slides with text, images, and media. stream within the presentation itself. Cloud-Based and Offline Access.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

flickr: valleygirl_tka A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. You're doing it wrong if you're spending more time fixing laptops than focusing on strategy.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Flickr: Chad_Norman I'm a little late in getting last week's round-up up, but better late than never, right? We voted him Most Likely to Show Up at Your Conference With Laptops for All because, well, he came through for the 09NTC. See more here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

You can give real-time updates from fundraisers or liveblog featured speakers at events from your laptop or mobile device. If your organization uses Flickr (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) to manage photos, the mobile app is a must-have companion. CoverItLive is the go-to liveblogging tool for journalists all over the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. Second, if your nose is buried in your mobile phone or laptop, you will miss the subtleties in what people say and the nonverbal cues in how they say it. So, stop answering email while you are supposed to be listening during a meeting. One of the modules is on meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The Cambodian Bloggers Summit had wonderful laptop stickers! In the video above, Virak is placing laptop stickers on his laptop. I also received a Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-shirt upon my arrival (and a Khmer keyboard from Javier Sola at KhmerOS) Photo from Beth's Flickr Stream. Click To Play.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2010

Flickr: mi.chael If you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater. While it's unclear who is behind the site -- all updates are written in the third person (and I don't believe it's a JetBlue marketing intern hiding in a back room with a laptop) -- it certainly doesn't appear to be hurting their business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

I didn't want to mess with installing (and unstalling) SKYPE on the computer so I could call Nick in Hong Kong as we view his flickr photo set and he could answer questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The session will be very hands-on, participants will be encouraged to their cameras, laptops, and clips. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. So I sent out a trial balloon on the list and in our flickr group discussion area.

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. It's this month's topic here at NTEN (and you should subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive the compiled "best of" version of these articles later this week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

re not near your Yahoo mailbox, your blog, your flickr account? I usually left my laptop back in the hotel and packed all my paper resources. People that spend alot of time online begin to take it for granted - this was already the case before Web 2.0, but now new Web 2.0 services are encouraging you to do more online than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. After 26 years of using a PC, I'm going to switch to MAC (dual processor) when this computer and my laptop die. It probably means to slow down and not try to do so much at such a frenetic pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

As I ran snapping my tourist photo of the poster for my learning journal (which I keep on Flickr ), Ansible mentioned that uploading Second Life snapshots on Flickr is controversal. It will be interesting to watch how this is all resolved and how many people turn into Flickr haters. I reserved my seat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag. or furl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2006

We finally arrived after 8 hours on the road, documented with my treo cameraphone and emailed to flickr. was also able to set it up on my husband's laptop. Watch the video. We had dinner, took a walk on the board, and I got a chance to have a conversation with my dad about blogging. (He What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. 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. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this TED talk , people are sitting 9.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " -rethink what counts as traditional forms of evidence of learning "All our kids have laptops, when we go to museum - kids take their laptops and cameras with them. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. Get another year out of laptops/software, etc. It stinks, but you have to do what you have to do. Then, evaluate joint IT/Business processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. So, once I got home, I put a question out to my Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. Do you really want to be friends with everyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

So, if you want to follow me - best to click through the flickr stream. This is a similar challenge that ngo staffers may face in the US, but the difference is that a staff person the US is far more likely to own a personal laptop and enjoy an Internet connection (a high speed one) at home or a nearby coffee shop.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: _heather_r_ My mother-in-law is famous in our family for one phrase: "Get Over It." What if I could phone bank for you from my laptop? " I've adopted it pretty broadly; it's handy when your husband or child is whining. But it also has useful business applications. You owe it to your donors.

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