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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

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The well-publicized attacks on Target , Community Health Systems , and Home Depot recently were the first type. Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted. That fundraising contractor whose laptop was stolen?

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

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I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. What this means? Green Technology.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. " Findhabeas.

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How to Develop a Cloud-Based Integrated IT System: ENCLUDE in Ireland

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This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. They needed to sort out their communicatons: email, instant messaging, SMS, and phone, with Microsoft Office 365 (70% discount); and. The new system was easy to use and mostly cloud-based and so is much easier to maintain.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

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Here are the plans: Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. They then got going on a revision of the NTEE code system that was devised by the U.S.

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