Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

allow individuals and brands to launch their own Web-based “TV&# channels. Very few nonprofits are currently streaming live programs on Web-based TV channels and if there is one thing I have learned in 15 years of online communications for nonprofits, it’s the early adopters that always win big. Websites like Ustream.tv

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The advent of the Mobile Web is slowly starting to permeate and transform nonprofit communications. Just like social media transformed the nonprofit sector and how it communicates with its supporters, so will the Mobile Web (even more so). Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. 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). for NGOs there.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees. Tags: E-Learning Event Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. (You Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

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. With web-based software, web conferencing, laptops, and smart phones, it's easier than ever to skip the office entirely. Skip the commute.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. Great web development environment, of course. Tags: Technology Zen android apple Hardware microsoft. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. I think like a lot of Web 2.0 Have a look at the demo. You can share these Blists. Watch the demo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0

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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. The geekout will be on Thursday at 3:30.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

" So, does it make sense to roll your own network to appeal to those 85% of existing donors who do not participate on social networking sites, but may be engaged with the organization through other channels like email, face-to-face, or web site forums? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. And if you???re

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. Tags: Consulting. You might need Errors and Omissions/Professional Liability if your actions or inactions could disrupt your clients' operations. You will need General Liability if clients will come to your office. publish your business name in the paper.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

They introduced a new keychain format which lets me keep my copy of 1Password in sync on both my laptop and desktop computers. Agile Web Solutions has earned my purchase based on faith. Tags: Geek Posts Macintosh. Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

They introduced a new keychain format which lets me keep my copy of 1Password in sync on both my laptop and desktop computers. Agile Web Solutions has earned my purchase based on faith. Tags: Macintosh. Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out. It works beautifully.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

In a study by Microsoft tag, it is predicted that by 2014, that internet usage on mobile phones and smart devices will exceed that of laptops and desktops. In comes responsive web design. And, in comes responsive web design built into the newest release of Luminate Online. That’s in less than two years.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

Their sub-$400 prices don't hurt the nonprofit as much as a normal laptop. In addition, as organizations adopt more Web-deployed technologies like CRM or document sharing, this may seem like a viable option. Tags: Acquiring Technology Hardware Running Your Organization Tech Planning Technology Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This is important because there is so much to learn and it can get overwhelming. I do a variation of ”speed dating,” each person creates a name tag with a first name and last name the name of a platform or tool they know about or have questions about. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. If you have a new Bon Jovi t-shirt, there's nothing we can do to help you. The oldest tree in the world has been around since before the first pyramids were built. It currently has fully-searchable information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, right down to the ships' captains.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Refurbished Computer Initiative supplies low-cost, warrantied, refurbished desktop and laptop computers through TechSoup Stock's Web site to nonprofits and libraries anywhere in the US. Tags: Green Office Community Tech Centers Community Tech Centers Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers GreenTech.

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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. Next up, let’s see how the details of migration (web, mail, address book, etc. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner. Tags: NPTech nten members. Thanks, Peter!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. By now, most folks in the web development and Gov 2.0 Tags: Government. and valuable ? for the public. Tell us in the comments.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2010

While it's unclear who is behind the site -- all updates are written in the third person (and I don't believe it's a JetBlue marketing intern hiding in a back room with a laptop) -- it certainly doesn't appear to be hurting their business. In fact, they've taken an open approach to the entire event -- as Li suggests we all do in her book.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The integration with Amazon web services went over better, and seemed more immediately appropriate for the big business crowd in the cloud. The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. Tags: Salesforce.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

Ford also plans to include a web browser. Best of show was the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid, a round notebook similar to the old clamshell iBooks, that is both a conventional laptop and tablet computer. Tags: GreenTech. Very soon the thing will work as a mobile Wi-Fi hot spot when a cellular modem is plugged into the car's USB slot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

A UNIX based, text interface, later updated to be Web browser-based when the Web became more mainstream in 1995. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I think showing the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The Cambodian Bloggers Summit had wonderful laptop stickers! I also collected stickers from different Web 2.0 In the video above, Virak is placing laptop stickers on his laptop. Technorati Tags: barcamp , cloggersummit2007 Click To Play. I would also like to thank KhmerOS for the KhmerOS t-shirts.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Lastpass categorizes and tags your passwords. At $50 per user per month, Blueworks web service is pricey. Use it only once, and it makes you want to create documentation.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

But wait, are people in developing areas, and even rural areas, even getting access to the web and/or to mobile technology? Can we really debate one laptop per child and mobile access when kids may really just need food, clothes and school books? Tags: International Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The conference had fast and reliable wifi and many had their laptops opened and were tweeting before the conference started – so I encouraged using Twitter as a back channel. With the help of David Hood , we googled all the participants and checked out their web presence and social outposts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

s a description from an archived web page [link] of how my role changed over my ten years at this job. You could sit down with a beer in hand and literally visit every server on the web via Cern. We were all excited by the beginning of the Web in those days and there were communities and conversations. Note the blink tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 You've got to love their logo. " Have any to add?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. CC also reported a significantly increased web presence and that it had engaged a much different constituency of young donors that the organization had not seen before—great potential for the future. Friendraising Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

When you want to use tags to organize and find stuff in your freezer. the digital devices people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones, 2. the global Internet and its growing store of socially-generated knowledge and Web-based, on-demand social applications. Technorati Tags: ContinuousComputing nptech

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