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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

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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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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The Disposable Computer

Tech Soup

Programs that we never thought would move online (like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and QuickBooks) are there today. Thin clients can provide the same experience as a desktop by leveraging technology known as a virtual desktop. These laptops are priced between $200 and $500. There is no hard drive and there are no moving parts.

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What Is Green IT? Take the Greener IT Challenge

Tech Soup

Green technology, particularly green IT has been one of TechSoup’s missions for many years. I’m fond of the overly clever antimetabole we came up with a few years ago: green IT uses technology to reduce environmental impact and reduces the environmental impact of technology. Green IT Defined.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. It is a collection of three apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

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Be a Tech Road Warrior: Gadgets and Tools for Working While Traveling

Tech Soup

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Luckily, I backed it up before I left on my laptop, but I lost all the photos I took on my trip.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

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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