Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well. The near future is looking to be even more mobile with more fully integrated technologies.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In the four years that I’ve been responsible for planning and negotiating conference A/V and other technology expenses for NCFR, I’ve had my eye on mobile broadband as a potential lower-cost alternative for providing internet access. Our plan of attack going in was to bring nine mobile broadband devices. The approach.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Unfortunately, this same flurry of options is also enough to make a mobile user say “forget it”. What you did not take into consideration was the attention span of the mobile donor. The most effective mobile giving site undone by its key piece of functionality, and you are left scratching your head. Mobile Users have ADD.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Mobile-Optimized And Mobile Payment Options. Donors are reaching your donation page from a variety of devices, from computers and laptops and tablets and cell phones. The problem is, each of these devices has different screen sizes, loading timeframes, and more. Read about them here ! Simple Donation Process.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

When people can’t come to one of their offices, Murtis Taylor's 130 mobile case managers bring services to the people. Murtis Taylor now serves around 11,000 people annually across its 12 locations and via its dozens of mobile case managers. Moving to the Cloud to Enable Mobile Case Workers. " Low-Cost Devices.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Because the site convinced me that the organization was working to solve an urgent problem and that my gift would make a meaningful difference. I have been inspired by a nonprofit that tackles a small aspect of a huge problem like providing pet food so people going through hard times can keep their pets. Make sure pages load quickly.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 27, 2021

Regardless of the device (mobile, tablet, laptop, or desktop) your constituent is using, this improvement will make it easier for them to checkout. I trust Amazon, so I have no problem storing my payment information for all of the benefits listed here. Engaged customers. Engaged customers are a huge asset for any organization.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

That fundraising contractor whose laptop was stolen? If that laptop held a copy of your donor data, losing it is just as harmful as a hacker plotting an attack. Nonprofits should avoid having sensitive data stored on mobile devices and drives if possible. For Macs running OS X, a program called FileVault is available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Karen Bloom, the CEO at Project Kesher, saves up problems that her staff is trying to address and bundles into a weekly problem solving walking meeting.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 19, 2016

Picking the right individual or company can lead to an efficient and pleasant experience; picking the wrong individual can lead to headaches, compounding problems or worse. More and more people nowadays—the majority of people really—are accessing websites on their mobile devices rather than on traditional desktops or laptops.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 10, 2015

A responsive website is one that, depending on the type of device a web visitor is accessing your site from, whether that be a smart phone, tablet, or laptop / desktop computer, the website functions and displays correctly. The Internet is changing constantly, and users are beginning to gravitate heavily towards mobile. Social media.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What’s more, those that do have a website often have one that is dated, doesn’t perform well in search engine rankings or can’t be viewed on mobile devices – a website that is no longer fit for purpose. Having too many interested customers isn’t a bad problem to have! It’s too expensive. This isn’t true either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” His work is focused on this question: What if there were a way to use the internet – and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles – to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense of edgy distractedness with calm? ” (Note: I created a list.ly

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Storytelling with Mobile Video. The donated Dell smartphones normally use AT&T or T-Mobile pay-as-you-go or contract plans, but they can function without it because they are Wi-Fi-capable. You can essentially use them as a $31 (admin fee) HD mobile recording device. Her Moments In Mobile piece describes the experience.

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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. This new, mobile-friendly operating system brings back the Start button, offers better searching, and can boot directly to the desktop. And that means going mobile.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What’s more, those that do have a website often have one that is dated, doesn’t perform well in search engine rankings or can’t be viewed on mobile devices – a website that is no longer fit for purpose. Having too many interested customers isn’t a bad problem to have! It’s too expensive. This isn’t true either.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

Millennials realize they've inherited some problems, and are ready to roll up their sleeves to fix them. Holly draws the connection via the Pew Internet & American Life Report that online access is moving away from the laptop experience. So, how do we engage this generation?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? How do you start to tackle this problem? They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. So what do you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It was President Gerald Ford who has just assumed the job of president after Nixon resigned and inflation was a big problem. She asked the audience, “who invented the 800 number?&# In a speech, he urged people to talk to their friends and neighbors on how to beat inflation and wanted them to be able to share their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It was President Gerald Ford who has just assumed the job of president after Nixon resigned and inflation was a big problem. She went on to tell the story about how several biotechnology firms are moving their employees to mobile – the iPhone and the laptop. She asked the audience, “who invented the 800 number?&#

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. Document all of the servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices that staff and volunteers use for the organization's work. For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

It was President Gerald Ford who has just assumed the job of president after Nixon resigned and inflation was a big problem. She went on to tell the story about how several biotechnology firms are moving their employees to mobile - the iPhone and the laptop. She asked the audience, "who invented the 800 number?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# After spending close to five hours on the X windows/driver problem I vented about last week. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. I gave up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

" Well, it seems that some people Twitter from the toilet with their cell phones and others, if the Internet connection is good, take their laptops with them too. Now that we've acknowledged the problem or a desire to do better, what are the best surefire tips? So, that question was revised!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. When you walk solo, you have the benefit of working through some problems or helping you generate a creative solution. Also, if I’m on calls, I do them while walking around.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Think about a tool like YouTube, where people can share videos (uploaded and created in various ways from mobile phones to laptop computers to high quality cameras) and then find others who care about similar issues.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Solving problems is more difficult when people don’t want to voice their concerns. Get your employees set up with an encrypted laptop and make sure they sign into a secure VPN to help protect extremely sensitive IPs. Collaboration is key to creativity as well, and face-to-face meetings really matter in this case.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. I also ran into a weird problem with a daemon called “avahi-daemon&# which is basically the Linux implementation of “Bonjour&#. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

You might auction off laptops, school supplies, and other similar items. Leverage the mobile-bidding app and keep all of your attendee data in one place! When you walk through the event over and over again, you can better pinpoint common areas that need improvement and troubleshoot problems before they happen during the actual auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

After triple checking to ensure you have your iPad, mobile phone, laptop, and all of your respective chargers in tow — you board a flight, land in a new city, and head straight for the convention center. Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

" There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. re working with???something Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

It identifies any problems with a runner’s form. Fundraising social media nptech Mobile tssocialmedia tsfundraising tsmobiletechnology nonprofit technology news NPTech news' It was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display. It will be available starting in February for $149. Anything we missed?

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