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4 Emerging Technologies That Will Affect Nonprofits

TechImpact

With close to 70% of cell phone users using their mobile device to access the internet, raising money through mobile donations is an area that is expected to only grow. Text message and SMS fundraising campaigns saw particularly high growth rates in the wake of natural disasters and other “must fund now” type donation campaigns.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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Networking Your Nonprofit: Security and Telephony

Tech Soup

Now that you've set up your network, you need to keep it safe, and to think about what it can do beyond file sharing and managing your Internet access. The Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit , our comprehensive guide to ensuring that your nonprofit or library is prepared for disasters, security breaches, data loss, and more.

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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. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. What this means? Green Technology.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. I learned a thing or two about the importance of basic infrastructure and processes - I'm my own IT department so I have a disaster plan.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will use SKYPE out which is more rebust for monthly conference calls, scheduled for business hours in Pakistan so participants can use the Internet connection at their offices. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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