Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The much-anticipated Apple announcement coincided with the perhaps poorly timed CTIA mobile industry tradeshow. FierceMobileIT , a mobile industry news site, reported that Wheeler clearly "favors treating mobile broadband in the same way as fixed broadband." Net Neutrality and Mobile Video. inches and 5.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. Myth 1: New Is Better Than Refurbished. Myth 2: Refurbished Computers Are Junk.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is held annually in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for the mobile industry for the coming year. It also influences other areas of the tech world and other industries — including the social sector. Paul raised the concern that this zero rating structure could be a threat to net neutrality.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In case you didn’t make the connection, that’s the dude who manufactured the first car and founded Ford Motor Company in 1903. Your conversion rate won’t be 100% and some people still won’t join your newsletter—and that’s okay. Most industry standards on click through rates range between 1% and 5%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. These ventures offer solid rates of return as well as environmental and/or social benefits, sometimes called blended value. I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Lagging indicators -.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Peer referrals are big business; the opinion of a friend or acquaintance is one of the most trustworthy sources of information about products and services, and the presence of peer reviews and ratings has been shown to positively impact sales. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When treated as a single “industry,” nonprofits are the third largest workforce in America, behind retail and food services, employing 12.3 There are twice as many nonprofit workers than there are in each of the nation’s transportation, trade, finance and insurance industries, and they account for 10.2 million people in 2016.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

If left unchecked, plastic pollution rates will more than double by 2030. Gutsch was named 2017 Environmentalist of the Year by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association for his tireless work for the oceans. The oceans give us life. In return, we treat them like a garbage can. It’s everywhere, in everything — including us.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2016

The skills gap is widening across many industries and organizations are struggling to find people with right skills set despite the availability of a large pool of candidates. Retiring employees, lack of right training programs are two major contributing factors behind the growing skills gap in nuclear industry.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

The group’s grassroots campaigns have forced several paper manufacturers, office supply chains and retail catalog companies (who can forget Forest Ethics’ “Victoria’s Dirty Secret” campaign from a few years ago?) junk mail,” Ball said. Forest Ethics speaks with authority on such topics.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And then Ds and Fs, you really want to have some deep conversation inside your organization to think about, “What are we going to do if we have a bunch of things that our team has rated poorly?” Japanese car manufacturer, I believe it was Toyota. What’s our average click rate? It is fundraising-related.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue.

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Classy

MAY 28, 2021

Jordan has broad experience providing comprehensive tax and accounting services across many industries and specializes in serving nonprofit organizations. The first key component of the president’s proposed tax plan is to raise the top end of the capital gains rate to 39.6%, which is nearly twice as much as the current 20% tax.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

It was developed out of a class at Harvard, and then a company called Uncharted Play that formed to manufacture the devices. Last year Waste & Recycling News named @ecoconsumer as one of the top 20 essential Twitter feeds for solid waste industry professionals. The device did well on Kickstarter. It’s a pretty ingenious idea.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2017

industries, behind only retail trade and manufacturing. In addition, it is adding employment at a rate that exceeds that of the country's for-profit business sector. It employs the third largest workforce among U.S. Although this data is not always readily available for other countries, we see signs of similar trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The Yelp and Around Me apps are popular ways to find restaurants, coffee shops, or hotels wherever you are, but what about green-rated businesses? Greenopia has transformed its printed, local guides into a dynamic, nationwide mobile application that lets you find local, green-rated businesses in any category.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. And it didn't seem like rocket science to me that you actually don't want to build something with a lot of industrial metal and toxins on top of your drinking water. We have four initiatives.

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