Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

Two organizations are working to see that aid workers, government officials, and the many organizations with damaged infrastructure throughout the country can start getting back on track by helping get quality refurbished laptops to them. World Concern and InterConnection are asking for your help.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 17, 2012

I use a PC laptop for work. Is the iPad at the point that it can completely replace a laptop that is primarily used for communication, light work and entertainment? I guess I believe Apple now when they say that’s all my desktop or laptop computer is…a device. ” Tagged: apple , ipad , iphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. Tagging from the point of view of taggers. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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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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AFP Blog

AUGUST 4, 2008

One Laptop per Child Lands in India: "Nicholas Negroponte has found it tough going in India. His best-known idea is the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program (BusinessWeek, 6/5/08), a plan to make a simple, $100 laptop that would create a digitally literate generation. Tags: NPtech NPOLPC.

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AFP Blog

MAY 19, 2008

One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe: "THE GOAL of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project has always been exciting: build a cheap, sturdy laptop and give it to poor children in developing countries to improve their educations.". Tags: NPtech NPOLPC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email). No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

Desktop and laptop computers have become essential tools for nonprofit communicators over the last decade, and now we are entering the era of smartphones – a tool that nonprofit communicators should definitely be writing into next year’s budget for key communications and development staff. Tags: Mobile Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying NTC is just days away!

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Santa Barbara Independent Tech Mogul Brings Laptops to Kellogg Kids: "D.J. Perry’s third-grade class at Kellogg Elementary School in Goleta buzzed with excitement on Friday, December 5, as students clicked away on their new XO-brand laptops. Tags: NPOLPC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

12seconds : 12seconds allows users to easily record videos with your laptop camera or cellphone, and then upload them to your 12 seconds video channel in order to easily post them to Twitter. Tags: Twitter. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. Alternatively, there is TweetPhoto.

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AFP Blog

MAY 16, 2008

Business & Technology | Microsoft joining laptop crusade | Seattle Times Newspaper: "Microsoft and the laptop organization announced Thursday that the nonprofit's green-and-white XO computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. Tags: NPOLPC.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Photo Credit: Mini Laptop Club Thanks to Sibley for sending me this fascinating article about "the laptop club"--a group of second and third graders in an afterschool program who designed their own (non-functional) laptops using construction paper, pencils, and a lot of imagination.

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AFP Blog

MAY 20, 2008

Today @ PC World OLPC Announces Next-Gen XO-2 $75 Laptop: "The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child has just shown for the first time images of its next-generation touch-screen laptop that goes by the name XO-2. According to Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC, the laptop is under development and has a goal of costing $75.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Putting XO Laptops Under Christmas Trees—and into Classrooms—via Amazon | Xconomy: "Under the Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, consumers can buy two laptops for $399. Tags: NPtech NPHolidayGiving NPOLPC. One will be shipped to a school of OLPC’s choice, and the other to any recipient of the buyer’s choice.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

The Associated Press: Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program: "Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child ProgramBy MAY WONG – 10 hours agoSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing.

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AFP Blog

JULY 25, 2008

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com: "Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer.As Tags: NPtech NPOLPC.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 12, 2009

Tags: NPOLPC. Hopefully, my children will become.

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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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AFP Blog

APRIL 15, 2009

Nortel Pullout Hits Laptop-for-Poor-Nations Program Hard | Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper: "owever, Nortel was forced to file for bankruptcy protection in January and, according to officials, has ceased its involvement in the OLPC program.'As Tags: NPOLPC.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2010

The continuing story of my new Thinkpad T400S laptop. Once I got my stuff moved over I started playing with the laptop and found that it had no sound. Tags: Hardware Software. I finally feel like it's starting to come together, particularly the upgrade to Windows 7. Here's the story so far. Right-click FlashUtil10d. That did it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2010

Most mobile phones and laptop computers use lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Tags: Green Office GreenTech GreenTips. Find out where to recycle them at Call2Recycle.org.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I use Spanning Sync to keep iCal and Address Book on the laptop in sync with iCal and Address Book on the Mac (and in sync with Google Calendar and Gmail). I’ll meet folks on my trip, enter their contact info into my phone and have no way of transferring that info to my laptop until I get home.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do all you can to prevent staff from downloading sensitive data to laptops and memory sticks. Tags: IT Management Security Databases. Pay attention to confidentiality and security: give staff and volunteers access to the data they need to do their jobs, but no more. And run backups religiously. Michael Cervino beaconfire.com/blog/.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. Tags: roundup bookmarks. And they’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment."

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 7, 2008

NussbaumOnDesign One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China? BusinessWeek: "At the Consumer Electronic Show this week, the One Laptop Per Child foundation was supposed to make two announcements—the number of computers it sold under the Give One, Get One holiday program and a new olpc machine made jointly with Intel.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 30, 2009

The keyboard feels great (let’s hope the letters don’t get worn away like on my previous laptop). Tags: Macintosh. The MacBook is the 5th Mac portable I’ve owned, (PowerBook, iBook G3, iBook G4, MacBook Pro) and it looks to be the best yet. I love the new trackpad gestures. hours per charge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

An example of a metadata tag is one we use for our branding across different countries. This tag allows us to search and quickly find all images and logos we and our partners use for TechSoup product donations. The only item on our wish list for future Box releases would be batch tagging. Getting Control of Our Images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

is all of the above except that the Web experience is no longer limited to desktop and laptop computers while stationary in one place. Tags: Mobile Marketing Social Media. Friends, fans, followers, connections, etc. Web 3.0 = Mobile Websites, Text Campaigns and Smartphone Apps. That’s my take. How about you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Mobile Websites Smartphone Apps Social Media Text Messaging iPhone Apps Smartphones Apps FourSquare.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

First '$100 Laptops' Sold to Uruguay - Switched: Gadgets, Tech, Digital Stuff for the Rest of Us: "he tiny green and white, $100 XO notebook has been in development by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation for years, but the device, intended to bring computing to children around the world, has only now received its first official order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Armed with her flip camera and her laptop she, asked people to mimic short clips from the movie. Tags: 10ntc. As part of the thank you to donors and the community, she created a remake of Bohemian Rhapsody by the muppets movie using members of the community in cameo roles. What a great way to make people feel part of something!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Tags: Mobile Technology Text Messaging. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2008

9: Cellphones (&# harder to secure than laptops or desktops&# ). #8: Tags: IT Management Security. (No surprise there). He then lists the following threats: #10: Spammers (&# attackers use college networks to help them send more spam&# ). #9: 6: Outsource Partners (&# companies can be a point of vulnerability&# ). #5:

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lifehacker , a popuplar blog on technology and productivity, had a post last week on lessons learned from a stolen laptop. As someone who travels frequently, often alone to crowded places where one must exercise a high level of caution, losing my laptop or phone is something I think about a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up. Be creative. How Tweet Ups Can Benefit Your Marketing Strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then add “Show Tags&# that speak to your organization’s work. Most laptops have a camera in them already, so you’ll just need to get a microphone to start broadcasting. Tags: Live Streaming TV Ustream. Next, choose a “Category&#. Unfortunately, there is no “Nonprofit&# [#?!] Experiment with me!

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