Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Software as a service (SaaS) is an undeniably green alternative to traditional computing. It's one form of cloud computing in which people use software applications that are located on the Internet rather than on their own computers or networks. Tags: Green Office GreenTech GreenTips Services Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community. He suggests that organizations forget that they're on the Internet and think about what their strategy in offline terms. Tags: facebook. The ball is in Causes court.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Microsoft's new version of Office 2010 is interesting in several ways, especially in its approach to green IT and cloud computing. Tags: Databases GreenTech Office & Productivity Server Applications Software Using the Web and Internet Web Building. It is ad-supported and now available on Windows Live.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Tags: Green Office GreenTech Hardware Software Using the Web and Internet. You can also follow our weekly updates in our weekly newsletter By the Cup. You can sign up for that here , if you're not already subscribed.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here is how the CyberOptic Group describes it: Essentially, cloud computing enables computer software and hardware resources to be accessed over the Internet without the need to have any detailed or specific knowledge of the infrastructure used to deliver the resources, much like a utility model. What Is Cloud Computing?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2009

This free, online collaboration tool allows users to share files and documents anywhere they have access to the Internet. Tags: E-Learning Green Office Office & Productivity Online Seminar Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2009

Tags: E-Learning Green Office GreenTech GreenTips Online Seminar Staff Telecom Services Training Using the Web and Internet Volunteers. If you have a meeting with 10 people who would normally drive 20 miles each to get to a meeting or worse yet, fly to a training… how much CO2 is being saved?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

Tags: Donors Donors Fundraising Green Office GreenTech Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet. Basically you just submit a description of the things you're doing around paperless fundraising, which include: read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

Tags: Acquiring Technology Connecting to the Internet Green Office GreenTech GreenTips Online Seminar Telecom Services Web 2.0 You can also read a forum discussion about multi-point video conferencing , which includes a discussion of Skype, net meeting, and other more robust tools.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

The local area networks they need are often similar, using one or two servers to connect the office to the Internet, serve databases and email, do back-ups and software updates, and the list of similarities goes on. Tags: Acquiring Technology Green Office GreenTech Hardware.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We've already done a bunch of work to suss out what cloud computing is all about in the context of green IT and will undoubtedly do more. I often explain cloud computing over-simply as using the Internet as your hard drive. Tags: GreenTech. They are: read more.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2009

The green benefit of this is that if you can collaborate online, it may enable you to commute or travel less, which means lower CO2 emissions. Tags: GreenTech Office & Productivity Software Using the Web and Internet. Collaborating online also means that there's less need to print out those shared documents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2009

Tags: Green Office GreenTech Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web 2.0 From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

Tags: Green Office GreenTech Online Seminar Telecom Services Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 To give you some estimates of the savings, we used the Terrapass Carbon Footprint Calculator to tell us how much CO2 might have been used had they decided to meet in person: read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One). EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Ten Tips to TeleGreen Your Work. TechSoup Blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Tags: Green Office GreenTech Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Launching on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, in the virtual world of Second Life, this interactive event will feature a keynote speech by Jacqueline Chenault, New Media Specialist, U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Amy reports on Green Mountain Coffee's new grants to reduce climate change. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web 2.0 The submission period ends on March 20. Alex considers an interview with Paul Levinson on the future of media and human interaction. Channing reminds us that marketing is not a dirty word.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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. Tags: Uncategorized Facebook MySpace Twitter. Subconsciously, you know they are still there reading your Status Updates. Take time for lunch.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Because I have a background in construction I also assist in the construction training aspect of our organization, I am a PACT (Pre-Apprenticeship Certificate Training for construction) certified trainer, and work closely with our Senior Construction trainer to provide our participants with the Green Building Certification through the PACT training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

This article was originally posted on I dig webby things.and I bet you do too at [link] by Chad Norman: Chad is an internet marketing, social web geeking, podcasting, skateboarding, family-oriented web guy running a green nonprofit at www.GoGreenCharleston.org/. Tags: community fundraising2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2009

However, it is an option for more and more people working in the information economy who have broadband Internet and mostly work on computers, telephones, or smart phones. One green company that installs virtual PBX systems is BetterWorld Telecom. They also do free telecommunications audit for US nonprofits and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Tags: guest blogging nten social media socialmarketing storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

We also designed the app so it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, since that romantic little spot by the beach might have lousy reception. It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2009

People in the UK also have good, fast broadband Internet access of 3.6 Tags: Green Office GreenTech. May 14 was also Bike to Work Day in many U.S. and Canadian cities. The British take teleworking seriously because apparently English workers have the longest work commutes in Europe.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? She also contributed a chapter to Internet Management for Nonprofits. Adrienne D.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

And with its low price tag, it's probably the most attainable technology for any organization that debuted at CES. 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!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. 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. What's the Hash Tag?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts guest. In your neighborhood.and all around the world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." And organizations need to shift their view on how to use technology/the internet to accomplish things (and especially do more than just raise money).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Internet is difficult to stop.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2005

Yahoo's last big acquisition was Flickr , the industry leading photo-sharing site, which like del.icio.us, uses tagging as a way to classify and retrieve images. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. as joined the Yahoo!

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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

JULY 9, 2009

WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual. Tags: network effectiveness networking online communities scholar. WiserEarth is where this movement can begin to see itself.”. I'm slowly inching back into a routine which includes blogging.

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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. Tags: socialmediametrics. 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. Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away!

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