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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, the market is becoming increasingly flooded with low-cost vendors and this trend will likely continue. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. TextMarks Dashboard.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

However, another trend that is emerging is that we'll be discovering the limitations of social media in fundraising. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend. This is an international trend. This trend is likely to continue."

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've just launched Miradi.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. intl/internetstats.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. Almost all of us here are set up with the laptop screen and the main monitor. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends. Green Laptops One Laptop Per Child give one, get one has been extended to December 30th. Zonbu has announced a laptop version. There's a good case study of LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. In other words, it's the "bring-your-own-device" trend in which employees and volunteers supply their own computing devices. This trend is expected to accelerate. The Forecasts for 2012. During the last week of December, 1.76

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