Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just finished up on January 10 th so we thought we’d call out some of the products and trends that we hope are fun and interesting to nonprofit techies. smart socks generate heat maps of how a runner’s foot strikes the ground and sends the info to a phone app.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Nonprofit Solutions, Sage Business Solutions. What will the nonprofit office of the future look like? Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. Look what I can do with my phone! Probably like your own home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? I remember, back in the heady days of the early Circuit Rider movement, when one of the big issues was that nonprofits had old, outdated equipment, and they never budgeted for its timely replacement.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

trip with the help of your fellow nonprofit attendees. This is your go-to dashboard for all the latest conference details with easy access from your laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Want to find other nonprofit folks in your area? 14ntc 14ntc Community nptech tips Program' Top 10 Tips for a Fabulous 14NTC.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

And chances are good that you are taking advantage of one or more of these; if not within your nonprofit, then at least for your personal use. Through organizations like Tech Impact and TechSoup , these online services are being offered at a significant discount to nonprofits, charities, libraries, and private foundations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

So, for my fellow nonprofit leaders, here are the technology tools I can't live without. And for you nonprofit techies out there, some ideas for winning over your ED.). If I find a great article on IRS cell phone reimbursement policies, I can clip it straight from the browser into my Operations notebook. That's all it takes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I tell you this not to wax nostalgic, but to remind you that while there are only 1 billion PCs in the world, we'll pass 5 billion mobile phones by the end of 2010. Computers are an established part of the nonprofit work place, and have been for years; we're used to PCs being on the cutting edge of our work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. The Unforeseen.

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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! For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. Social Media and Fundraising. One is hiring.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

These rules don't do enough to stop the phone and cable companies from dividing the Internet into fast and slow lanes, and they fail to protect wireless users from discrimination. No longer can you get to the same Internet via your mobile device as you can via your laptop.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

More than 90% of nonprofit organizations are using some form of cloud computing today with half of them using multiple cloud services. While the majority of nonprofits are using the cloud for common tasks like email, only about 15% are using cloud-based accounting and fundraising solutions. The Changing Landscape of Technology.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

Referencing the Millennial Donor Report , when it comes to trusting a nonprofit organization, the factors that influence Millennials, are relationship driven - based on personal connections to the leadership, or the organization. Ninety-three percent of Millennials in the US have a smart phone. So, how do we engage this generation?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog. That's affordable for even the smallest nonprofits. No nonprofit should be going it alone and buying software and hardware retail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

the digital devices people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones, 2. So, I wonder how this impacts nonprofits? Does this make it more compelling for nonprofits to be adopting some of these new tools? What are the consequences for (nonprofits) of ignoring these tools?

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

" I do a lot of public speaking on social media, the cloud, business intelligence, and other emergent trends in nonprofit technology. No matter what the topic is, I'm asked some variation on, "I'm a nonprofit. What if I could phone bank for you from my laptop? " Tags: innovation NPTech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. So here it goes.10 Why not ask them?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. Salesforce1 for Nonprofits just just launched.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news once again. I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Nonprofits are striving to invest more in their core missions, decrease the cost of operations, and ultimately execute more successfully. In other words, the cloud can provide both cost savings and innovative, integrated solutions that enable your nonprofit to be the best it can be. Should I make the switch to the cloud?”.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Every year at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), one of our major goals is to collect enough feedback from you, the attendees, to make our future conferences even better. Karl Hedstrom , NTEN. Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Marnie Webb.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

I've picked out a few mobile trends that nonprofits, charities, and libraries should keep an eye on in 2014. For more on CES news, check out my colleague Jim Lynch's NPTech News column for this month. This column, by the way, will be a monthly feature on mobile technology for nonprofits and charities. Privacy as a Trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. The Forecasts for 2012. The Decline of PCs.

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