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The Year in Review: The Best Tech Stories of 2015

Byte Technology

Microsoft Takes Over the Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Scene. Bill Gates introduced not one, not two but three new Surface laptops this year, including the Surface Pro 4, a more powerful yet affordably priced model that’s super thin and lightweight. Driven Personalities.

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Mobile-Friendly Searching: Getting Your Non-Profit’s Website Up to Speed

Byte Technology

Google, along with Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the big boys on the Internet are intimately aware of the fact that more and more web searches and surfing are now being done on mobile devices rather than desktop or laptop computers.

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17 Smart Ways To Protect Data At Your Nonprofit

Global Giving

With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. The process can be intimidating! If you don’t have a technology or legal background, where do you start?

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

Get Fully Funded

A photo accompanied by a concise story or a short video with an attention-grabbing headline should be right there to introduce your visitor to the essence of your organization’s work. Write a headline for your story that tells the visitor what your organization does. Remember, you have 10 seconds!). Make sure pages load quickly.

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Ditch the Boring—5 Tips for Running an Effective Board Meeting

NonProfit Hub

Yes, the words ‘agenda’ and ‘fun’ were both used in the same headline. Don’t allow other laptops to be used, unless you’re using one to project the agenda or do other exercises. We’re all adults, but even the most responsible can fall into the social media trap if a laptop is open. Set a (Fun) Agenda. Crazy, isn’t it?

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. Well, yeah.

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. That's only scratching the surface it seems as this blog devoted to LinkedIn seems to indicate.