Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Check out our Green Technology Page. Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? The April 2015 TechSoup Green Tech Story Challenge (the "Challenge").

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

This was originally posted on the Nonprofit Commons: Nonprofits in Second Life Blog. Join in the official launch of the EcoCommons in Second Life! Pacific , on the new EcoCommons island in Second Life. EcoCommons is a virtual location (sim) designed for environmental organizations in the 3D virtual world of Second Life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora’s life journey is an inspiring story. Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. Naturally, she was eager to escape.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country. Their mission is to connect schools to Internet learning, to connect rural clinics with telemedicine, and to develop village telecommunications in this part of rural Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. with Gwen Bell As I mentioned in my post, Taking Back Your Time: Is Unplugging the New Green? I think that unplugging and limiting internet and tech use is an upcoming cultural trend, so I was thrilled to see that one of the sessions was Unplug, Unfriend, Unfollow, Unwind: Is That Sacrilege?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. billion humans.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Britt: For people who aren't familiar with green rooftops, what is a green roof? But literally they're green because it's a garden on a roof. Britt: What are some of the benefits of a green roof? What they've done is these cities have started a really broad program of green roofs. It acts like an insulator.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. But I digress.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

This donation also includes GoDaddy's Get Found service, which helps your organization get better visibility on Internet search results. Little Green Light. Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management system designed for nonprofits. Do not expose Little Green Light to water or bright lights.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

These devices pose a data security risk for organizations that buy or lease them especially at their end of life. Their network capabilities, particularly their on-board servers make them somewhat vulnerable on the Internet to hacking and data theft. End of Life Precautions. What is an organization to do? What To Do.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? TechSoup Blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Maryn Winn, the cofounder and executive director of the Shoreline Solar Project, says: "I can't imagine life without TechSoup."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life. Smartphones and Apps are changing the way we use Internet. Get more greens. Or your going to have a hellish old age of aches and pains from coming of age in the Age of the Internet. This an important one. Take time for lunch.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Select how you’d like to label each color [For example, orange for meetings, green for personal appointments, pink for high priority tasks, etc.] Five ways to curb your internet use and get your life back. Here’s how: When setting up a new calendar appointment, look for the “Categorize” icon.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Big Data and the Internet of Things. MIT Technology Review declared 2013 the year of the Internet of Things.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

The charger can restore a smartphone's battery life in just seconds. It plugs into your Internet router and scans your network and the websites you visit for potentially harmful software or viruses. Here's a great gadget that combines fitness tech, green tech, and security! " What earns this praise? Fitness Tech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? The RCI program also has a free end-of-life takeback program , in which anyone with an RCI computer can call and get free shipping when the PC is ready for recycling. You can check out our entire catalog of refurbished IT equipment. Using the U.S. low-income household.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

"Older people aren't shy of using the internet - they have a verve for life that applies online as well as offline," said Paul Green, a Saga spokesman. "Thirteen thousand is just a drop in the ocean - in theory the membership is practically limitless.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the Green IT field. publication, Green IT For Dummies. There are now many general books on green IT, but Green IT For Dummies remains one of the most readable and practical introductions to the field for people in small and medium sized offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

One part included having people stand if they had a formal or informal communications plan/strategy (half the room) -and then had them sit down in waves to determine formal communications, Internet strategy, and social strategy. There were only a handful of people who had a formal communications plan with a social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

How Green Is RCI? The RCI program also has a free end-of-life takeback program , in which anyone with an RCI computer can call and get free shipping when the PC is ready for recycling. You can check out our entire catalog of refurbished IT equipment here. Using the U.S. The RCI equipment is then processed according R2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2015

Even though I get my news every morning from the great Morning Editions hosts, Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne and David Greene and spend my days listening to This American Life, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and TED Radio hour, it’s never really crossed my mind to donate. It was created with one demographic in mind: Millennials.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

Life was primitive back then. The Internet barely existed; we navigated it with tools like Gopher and TelNet. I was too green and inexperienced to push back on the last reaction—the “who are these people” reaction. My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He selected some definitions from the Internet. Internet is difficult to stop. They want to improve their quality of life and confidence and lead an independent life. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant. They replaced the organization. What is Web 2.0 Conclusion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Having managed adult volunteers to work with the young people in Streetside Stories workshops for many years, I know what a difference adult tutors and mentors can make in a young person's life and I appreciate Daniel's creating an online space for them to nework and share experiences. We call it the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Address: 800 W.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Anna Jaeger, TechSoup Global By now, you're probably aware that "green technology" exists. You might even be able to name a thing or two that would be considered green. In this article, I can barely scratch the surface of some of the more accessible green technologies. Green Software. Green Hardware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

I don't mean some wear-a-red-outfit-with-a-green-hat, only-go-outside-to-buy-milk bullshit either. And then out for lunch, where I will pause to perform the post-kiss Angela dance from My So-Called Life in the plaza. But she isn't going to stop fundraising until the end of the month. Oh, the humiliation she selected? on the subway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Harry: A Green Geek. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Online Fundraising Predictions From Around the World. Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. As insecurity increases, technology tools for “aggression and protection” are in high demand and so are those that allow for hedonistic escape from real life’s stresses. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

10 Top Nonprofit CRM Solutions (Updated 2023) Neon CRM Bloomerang Network for Good Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT Virtuous EveryAction DonorPerfect GiveButter Little Green Light Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud The Pros and Cons of Spreadsheet CRMs Alright! Should My Nonprofit Choose Little Green Light? What is a CRM, Anyway?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

There are people posting photos of their fcd displays on the internet to brag about these high fuel efficiency scores. In broad strokes, the fcd is just an gaming extension of life logging--passive data collection about all kinds of aspects of life. And there are also many museums touting their green architecture etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green? You can even save your money.

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