NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

I was trying to count the number of laptop models for sale at Best Buy, all the while avoiding the glance of any of the eleven sales associates (AKA "Blue Shirts") that hovered around the computer displays. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ).

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Send your newsletter to someone who reads it on their laptop, and to another one who is going to read it on their smart phone. The post Your 10 Point Checklist For Nonprofit Newsletter Writing appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Industry News Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Technology for Good Gadgets – It’s All About Health and Fitness. The TV technology most likely to make your current TV obsolete are new ultra high definition ‘ 4K ’ TVs. Fundraising social media nptech Mobile tssocialmedia tsfundraising tsmobiletechnology nonprofit technology news NPTech news'

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. What this means?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 3, 2013

“Where I’m from, jail and death before age 18 are the two major options, but I wanted different,” said Christopher Snow, who because of ITWorks is now working as a Technology Services Technician for the large international consulting firm, Accenture. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. Donate this. Donate this.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

They emerge from the program with industry-recognized certifications, hands-on experience, and the professional skills and network they need to compete for jobs in the technology workforce. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. Fundraising Industry News donation donors fundraising nonprofit npTech' How to help.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Flickr Photo: peppy sis Most people probably wouldn't put Earth Day and technology together, but you and I know that's just silly. We just finished spring cleaning the NTEN offices and took a laptop, four boxes of toner, some thumb drives, a broken keyboard, and some old power supplies to Free Geek last night. Skip the commute.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The impact of technology is huge—we can’t function without it. This is why it’s essential for non-profit organizations to embrace technology with caution. Here are a few factors that should be considered when evaluating your current and future technology platforms: Create bring your own device policies.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Nonprofit group starts making low-cost laptops | Technology | Reuters: "A nonprofit group said on Tuesday production of a new laptop computer for children in developing countries had begun, a milestone that could shake up the PC industry by ushering in a new era of low-cost computing.". Tags: NPtech NP100dollarlaptops.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. The user base for laptops is 789 million, and an additional 743 million for desktop computers. One of the most interesting findings is how technology is getting less expensive. mobile apps nptech mobiletechnology' Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 19, 2008

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Stretching Laptop Run TimeBy Ted NeedlemanYou have to wonder sometimes. As laptops get smaller and lighter, their run times often suffer due to fact that smaller laptops have smaller batteries. Tags: NPtech.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. This is technology for good news from India. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe. Accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NpTech Talk. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 4, 2008

One Laptop per Child Lands in India: "Nicholas Negroponte has found it tough going in India. For years as the head of MIT's Media Lab, the famed computer scientist promoted radical ways to use technology to transform society. Tags: NPtech NPOLPC.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 29, 2007

Stu Leigh of Real World Productions sent me a link the this video, in which Hakon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera Software, demonstrates the hardware for the new OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiaitve. It's pretty impressive. Opera , if you didn't know, is providing the web browser for the OLPC effort.

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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. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. " Findhabeas. Paul Lamb might.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Let's take a look at where the technology to make this all happen is going -- and where it's coming up short. . Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work. The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. Have you hugged your servers lately? What do you think?

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In the case of your computing resources and personal data inside that box you call your laptop, or protecting the whole of your home or office network, security is a matter of using specific tools that prevent unprivileged outsiders from getting in. Wifi passwords, firewalls, password protected fileshares, virus protection software, etc.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Thin clients can provide the same experience as a desktop by leveraging technology known as a virtual desktop. Tablet computers: So maybe your iPad isn't a replacement for your desktop or laptop, but the Surface Pro is getting awfully close. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500. That trend will continue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Check out Steve Dembo's Geek Toys that'll give you Geekbumps which includes the Give One Get One XO Laptop Campaign (hurry offer ends on November 30th) and a Chumby (hmm. May be created and consumed using mobile technology and distributed using other social media tools.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Looks like Peter Campbell , via his TechCafeteria project, has set up a handy nptech feed aggregator to pull in nonprofit technology info from the web into one spot. Lou is the Director of Technology Projects for Save the Children, formerly worked for the American Red Cross, and founded the Wilderness Technology Alliance.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

The emergence of cloud technology has changed the way people around the world work, communicate, share information, and support causes. The Changing Landscape of Technology. But for most, the quick benefits of saving time, money and technological headaches will be a welcome change.

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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. Technorati Tags: linux , nptech , opensource , windows , ubuntu { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands: Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith 05.22.07 I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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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? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops.

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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. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

This year, we can't wait to connect with all of you at 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , so we're skipping the whole "waiting" part and introducing a new way we can all connect before we even arrive in Washington, DC. Tags: #11NTC myNTC NPTech NTEN online community Social Media. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

The McKinsey report offers a concise statement of the issue: The rapidly growing carbon footprint associated with information and communications technologies, including laptops and PCs, data centers and computing networks, mobile phones, and telecommunications networks, could make them among the biggest greenhouse gas emitters by 2020.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. For the ED, the ultimate win for technology comes when we get even 1% more efficient. So, for my fellow nonprofit leaders, here are the technology tools I can't live without. (And That's all it takes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

With the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference coming right up, this might be a good time to think about what you're going to pack. Could you leave your laptop at home ? No surprise that it's about how technology can help you change the world. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. I volunteer as an Imagine Cup judge each year, and I can tell you first hand that their caliber of technology resourcefulness is extraordinary.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Moira Gunn is enchanting storyteller and spent the first part of her session telling one story after another that demonstrated a simple idea: The dirty little secret to technology is how you use it. She asked to think about how technology what we do and what the impact was. She asked the audience, "who invented the 800 number?"

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 3, 2008

So farewell then, OLPC CTO (and dm.ca) | Computerworld Blogs: "It's the first IT Blogwatch of 2008: in which The One Laptop Per Child project loses its CTO. Tags: NPtech NPTechtools NPOLPC.

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