Technology Hype Cycle from Gartner
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 21, 2006
cc "BY" license Photo by Cosmic Spanner What we're witnessing with the hype and anti-hype or schmype swirling around Web2.0
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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.
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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS
NTEN
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Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Enter Gartner. Gartner also says that SaaS is a kind of Cloud computing, but it has its own definition: SaaS is an application owned, delivered and managed remotely.
Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT
NTEN
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Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. If you're the person responsible for technology at your organization, you have a responsibility you may not even have realized was yours.
Nonprofits Should Consider SMS Fundraising With Eyes Wide Open
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Photo by OxMour. It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment. Plateau of Productivity.
IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right
NTEN
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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. That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." IT is not a cost center.
Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones
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Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.
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