Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As smartphones and tablets grow in popularity, mobile optimization is something libraries and nonprofits should pay close attention to in the coming year. Responsive web design (also known as mobile optimization) refers to designing a site to provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. Why Mobile?

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Summer is a big time for mobile news: there's Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Microsoft Build, CTIA, and a spree of other mobile-related press conferences. Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Mobile Payments on the Rise.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Get mobile broadband access for your organization with a donated fourth-generation (4G) modem or wireless hotspot from the Mobile Beacon Donation Program. Organizations eligible for the Mobile Beacon Donation Program can request one of the four devices (admin fee: $15) per TechSoup fiscal year. Internet Any Time, Anywhere.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. People believe in the internet. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Kindful

AUGUST 19, 2021

Is your ideal donor internet savvy? . Mobile or Mobile Apps (Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.)? Who they are : They pay for things online and/or via mobile and are very up to date with all of the latest money transferring apps and may even use cryptocurrency to make donations. . They pay for things online and/or via mobile.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. It doesn’t require internet access. Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. This is especially true for girls.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Salesforce has even extended its training to the next generation of employees by offering Salesforce Student Programs to help students and career changers learn in-demand job skills. Offering mobile access. For effective member engagement, offering a great mobile experience is simply a must-do these days.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Salesforce has even extended its training to the next generation of employees by offering Salesforce Student Programs to help students and career changers learn in-demand job skills. Offering mobile access. For effective member engagement, offering a great mobile experience is simply a must-do these days.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Student art show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Note From Beth: With the rise of mobile adoption and the primary use to access the Internet and social platforms, it is reaching across consumer segments of all income levels. Zero Divide published a report called “Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact: The Future is Now”. Please join us for the conversation.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Minds Matter of Los Angeles added a background image of the students that benefit from their programs. While load times typically aren’t an issue with desktop devices, the majority of your donors are on a mobile device with suboptimal connections to the internet. Remember to aim for 0-4 seconds on desktop and mobile devices!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. organization-provided Internet services are to be used only for. A Word About Mobile Devices. Lost productivity.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

With the introduction of the internet and social media, donors now have the ability to participate and give in new and more accessible ways. Donors in these demographics care about social, environmental and cultural causes but are often cash poor and burdened with student loans. . large events for larger wallets.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Don't miss the first installment, covering how Student Activities offices are using digital tactics to increase engagement on campus ! Data-driven direct marketing campaigns.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Don't miss the first installment, covering how Student Activities offices are using digital tactics to increase engagement on campus ! Data-driven direct marketing campaigns.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues. Unfortunately, a lot of people who are disabled are not able to access our services in the same way because they either have a lack of mobility [or] lack of transportation. Reaching younger volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Hannah is the Clubs and Student Development Manager at UNSW. She is interested using social media to connect with students. (I I had, of course, attempted to live stream a video interview with her using my N95 and QIK, but the Internet connection and I lost the streamed video -- went into the black hole of the Internet!).

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

An all-around accounting package for smaller organizations, AccountEdge extends your reach from Mac and PC to mobile devices with free iPad and iPhone apps. And, feel safe with the new 2014 Bitdefender Internet Security , a product of the year with top marks from PCMag , AV-Test, and AV-Comparatives. And that means going mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Azzam whose team had won 3rd place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. View more presentations from Rami Al-Karmi.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2014

The UNOBOOK from eduGear in particular is specifically designed for teachers to help educate students. However, when used with a MobileBeacon device , also offered via TechSoup, these tablets can access 4G internet service. apps mobile phone mobile phones tsmobiletechnology' The Tablets. Dell Latitude 10 Tablet.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

It is home to the School of Earth and Sustainability, which gives students and faculty a hub to study and research topics related to the environmental sciences and sustainability. Bentley Motors’ new digital platform is a crucial component of its goal to become a leader of sustainable luxury mobility.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

creating standalone apps or a mobile-friendly website and library. use apps and mobile technology. Smart mobile devices usually include a camera, location-aware GPS, a barcode. scanner, and Internet access. African-American history mobile tour uses GPS technology to pinpoint historically relevant campus sites nearby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

The speed and access to the Internet has changed dramatically. Having Internet access on the five hour drive from Phnom Penh from Siem Reap came in handy. I posted on Facebook that I wished I had a sign in Khmer that said, “Don’t talk on your mobile phone while your are driving.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Three months later, the Internet was born. He is currently a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Santa Cruz, researching how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning and activism. She is currently working on a curated mobile guide for alternative lifestyles. Expert Guests.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Lending Free Home Internet Access to Students and Job Seekers. One of the library's recent inventive programs has been the Mobile Beacon Hotspot lending program. The hotspots provide unlimited G4 mobile broadband that works on any device. It is a blessing to meet so many interesting, wonderful people."

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Rock the Vote has been mobilizing the youth vote for almost 30 years. We called up Jen Tolentino, Director of Policy & Civic Tech at Rock the Vote to talk about their mobilization strategy and the role of technology in organizing. Today, the internet has really changed how we digitally organize young people.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. Safer Internet Day. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users. If you want to optimize your modern fundraising strategy, you have to meet your supporters where they already are— on the internet. Make sure to offer multiple ways for participants to bid, including through a mobile app or on an online website page. Leverages common tools.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Digital Education: With 91% of students around the world and 32 million in the US alone currently out of school, companies are stepping up to address the learning gap that is intensified by the inequities of the digital divide. Many companies are addressing the lack of internet and computer access through their CSR responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

The Internet is bloated. The mobile web, of course. You’re not just competing with other nonprofits in your space; you’re also competing with the Internet as a whole. And as you know, the Internet is expanding at a breakneck pace. Your users have miniscule attention spans. Words matter. More Content Every Second.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. The reason why The Fog is emerging is because of the amount of data overwhelming our 3G and 4G mobile networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

If Pinterest were a person, it would be a young, upwardly mobile female – an ideal potential Camfed supporter, or so I thought. In many communities, Camfed students are supported by Mother Support Groups comprised of women who raise funds to support and empower their villages’ neediest girls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Representing the youth perspective was Shub Sengupta (at 18, surely one of the youngest NTC presenters of all time), a current college student and former Pathways to Education program participant. Pathways to Education serves over 600 students. It wasn't until recently that Pathways to Education students took up Twitter.

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