Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

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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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

For instance, attendees might hop between their email tab and your event, or even close their laptop screen altogether if your virtual event isn’t engaging enough. . She earned her Bachelor of Commerce from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, specializing in Marketing and International Business. . About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The Buffer Blog recently published a post, “ Nine Science-Backed Methods for Happier, Productive Meetings ,” that summarized new research and actionable tips for better meetings, including some tips that were new and different – and very useful: Don’t Take Notes with Your Laptop. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

.” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.” ” (Note: I created a list.ly with some useful Zen Apps).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

In his book Natural Capitalism , Paul Hawkin finds that the amount of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

They were getting creative and pioneering MySpace in 2005 and Facebook in 2006 long before corporate brands and universities, but that hasn’t been the case with mobile technology. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a 5 pound laptop you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. They must come from mines and factories from all over the world.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Next fall, Steffon will enter Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama where he plans to major in public relations. She gets around this by downloading Bookshare texts on her laptop, enlarging the font, and scrolling through the text with the down arrow key on her keyboard.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

We've hit something of a benchmark in this successful program: we've distributed a little over 50,000 refurbished devices through RCI — including laptops, monitors, servers, and tablets. Gosh, has it been nine years now since I started TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) program? We Thank You.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a 5 pound laptop you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? One recent study at Stanford University determined staff were more creative when they were walking versus sitting and encouraged walking meetings for more innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

but left my laptop power source in Massachusetts. luckily Santa Clara has stores that sell universal power adaptors that fit my laptop. It could have been worse, could have left my laptop home. I'm famous for forgetting to pack something important on every trip. Usually it is something cheap to acquire like a toothbrush.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. I met Dina Masri, a talented engineering student and change maker at the University in Jordan.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

Preparation for those events was often done in the margins of my professional life: In my favorite airplane seat (aisle, exit row), on my laptop at home as I tried to multitask with family time (bad idea), or early in the morning.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

No longer can you get to the same Internet via your mobile device as you can via your laptop. These rules don't do enough to stop the phone and cable companies from dividing the Internet into fast and slow lanes, and they fail to protect wireless users from discrimination.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

Creative Reuse: A Universal Language. As Betsy says, "One of the things we say about art is that it's a universal language. Each of our three winners received either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2010

Everywhere you go, people are nose down in their laptops and phones: while in sessions, while walking down the halls, and while on the panels. While they are interesting and fun (more about this in a future post), the question is whether they will enjoy universal uptake. It's my first time, and it's a lot to take in. And in what form?

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

3) Partner with colleges and universities. 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease. Many corporations lease their PCs and laptops, often over two years with a $1 buy-out. And while you're at it, invite the seminar graduates to help implement what you learned.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

More than 90 percent of laptop and desktop PCs are running some version of Windows. Universal apps. The fact that Windows 10 is a free upgrade for many users may account for much of the adoption. It is also a very good version of Windows by most accounts. the Windows 10 start menu. System settings. Cortana digital assistant.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2021

So, Learning security practices in top universities like the Stanford cybersecurity course comes with many advantages that include personalized mentorship, a comprehensive curriculum, etc and helps you to build a great Cybersecurity career. Cybersecurity demand is high in almost all industries across the world. Why is a VPN required?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 20, 2009

By the professor’s rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned off, he says, to ensure students focus on what’s happening in the room, rather than on what’s floating around cyberspace.“In Is the Internet Stupefying Students?: "By

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

I think some of the points are universal, others not. I usually left my laptop back in the hotel and packed all my paper resources. for African Civil Society. Take for example this pitfall to watch out for: What to do when you???re re away from the Internet? but now new Web 2.0 Social Media, and Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in June to expand the Universal Lifeline program to include broadband, following a public comment period. The Obama administration means to make universal broadband happen, and it has just one year left to do it. is doing more down-to-earth things to close the digital divide.

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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. Prior to her move to California in 2007, she served as the head of fundraising for Dyson College of Arts & Sciences at Pace University in New York City. in Financial Management, with honors, from Pace University in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2005

The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. I'm putting here because my laptop is broken.). Step 1: Keyword search - poetry -- over 500 results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. Next week, while in the UK and on a laptop that won't support the Second Life client (there are access problems), the Berkman Center will present a highlight of this course - a virtual trial ! Over fifty avatars attended.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2007

I'd pictured it as a room with a bunch of developers at tables, laptops open, showing off the ways they'd managed to build useful tools using the Facebook Platform or API. And despite Facebook's origins as a university-based site, these new users are predominantly older. Last week I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in DC.

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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). Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

University of Technology Research Fellow, Augustin Chevez and Senior Lecturer, DJ Huppatz note one early example of the office in classical art: Botticelli’s “Saint Augustine in His Study,” painted all the way back in 1480. What are now towering skyscrapers of steel and glass started as modest, quiet rooms in monasteries and churches.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. The ways in which people learn are being considered universally in the production of learnings and how users interact. Disclaimer 2: There is a high likelihood that much like the debate itself, I will go over my self-allotted time limit.

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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. I like LastPass because it is a convenient, universally available cloud-based service, and I don't have to keep anything on any computer that might be compromised.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Now that you have the basic definition of mobile giving (as well as some universal best practices) under your belt, it’s time to move on to the vocab lesson! So when you’re designing your website , make sure that the content you create functions just as well on a mobile phone or tablet as it does on a laptop or desktop computer.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Hey, this is our yearly fundraiser, won’t you gives us money to help current students have a great experience at our university? The First ONE campaign officially launched with an on-campus reception where laptops were available allowing supporters to register. Create Excitement & Provide Ownership.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. I could go on and on about this one so I'll just tell you what I've been reading on the topic: University of Toronto: A Global Overview of Digital Wallet Technologies. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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