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9 Emails Every Nonprofit Needs To Send

Pamela Grow

Closeup Woman hand using Laptop pc with email icon, Email concept Creating your nonprofit’s digital strategy comes with its own set of challenges, from creating engaging campaigns to standing out in donors’ inboxes. This simple survey is only one example of the many we’ve published throughout the years.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. Myth 1: New Is Better Than Refurbished. Myth 5: It Has a Short Life Span.

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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social networks are for-profits enterprises and their revenue models are almost entirely based on advertising revenue. Put your laptop in the closet and don’t take it with you if you are traveling for your vacation. The survey for the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is now available in English , French , and Spanish.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Tech Soup

Each volunteer can carry up to 600 pounds of food, and logistics are coordinated through an online application called the Robot , making this model replicable and easy to handle with only one full-time employee. To collect this information, Boulder Food Rescue sends out teams of people to survey local businesses.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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How To Make Meetings Work for Your Nonprofit (whether you are sitting,standing, or walking!)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another way to make your meetings more productive is to flip the model. Like the flipped classroom model in education, you ask participants to read the reports ahead of time so you can spend more time on discussion versus presentation. ” Is scheduling a meeting just part of our addiction with busyness?

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

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.