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. Sharing Documents. Check out Timbuk2's line of stylish TSA-approved backpacks and laptop sleeves.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last month I posted a list of best practices for managing a database and discussed, among other things, protecting data on USB drives and laptops. Else encrypted files may be lost when someone leaves the organization (or dies, for instance). I think the best solution is to take steps to keep sensitive data off laptops and desktops.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. We have come to rely on Box because we share documents across programs inside our organization and with our partner organizations around the world. Sharing Files Around the World. Managing and Moving Documents.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. I frame every help document with "How Do I.?" Which leads me to. The cloud is a tool.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. I frame every help document with "How Do I.?" Which leads me to. The cloud is a tool.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Evernote lets me organize files, web sites, pictures, audio, and notes, from any device. I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. Another resource that lets you work on the files you want, when you want, is Dropbox. It's exacerbated by the fact that it's a 24/7 job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2012

In other words, copy the file onto a USB stick and then walk over to the other computer where the printer is hooked up and print it. In addition, there are many times when I’m working on my laptop in another area of the house and would love to be able to send a document to print.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Too bad it’s so hard to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files on them – or is it? All of them view office documents including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on various types of smartphones, but to varying degrees of effectiveness. Impressive as Documents To Go is, I was also interested to see what the $0.99

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simply app development. In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. They both have good documentation and active communities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Kingsoft Office is a free office app that allows you to view and edit Word and Excel documents.

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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. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But Windows 8 or versions of it will run on an array of smartphones, laptops, hybrid laptops, desktop computers, and tablet computers. Touch screens are now common on smartphones and tablets of all types, but still relatively rare on desktop PCs, and laptops, but they are expected to become much more common soon. Fremake.com.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2016

A single laptop runs all the screens. TechSoup's hardware donation programs offer factory-refurbished commercial-grade laptop and desktop computers to churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious organizations. Box is an online file sharing and collaboration tool. We also use Publisher for our welcome brochure."

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

The things that we realize that happened most around file-sharing and collaboration and having two people look at the same document. And before you know it, there are so many different file-sharing systems, and so many different…for example, marketing solutions and things like that. There are probably many reports to file.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They can share files, videos, and documents with other people on the WMS network. They can save files in their own private folders where only the user and admin can access them. Refurbished multi-core computers work fine with the software. Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Standard Edition.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Use it not only to advertise your services, but also to share files with clients, point to resources, clarify your working style/methods/contract, etc. document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - do it ASAP.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If voting habits are inferred, either your sleuthing capabilities are very strong, or the answer was found elsewhere (outside the scope of this document). ” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. And what is their documented up-time? Blog Commencement. How is it cooled?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom Dropbox - managing files across devices, access to documents when on the road, or quickly sharing files with others. Twenty years ago, everyone brought pen and paper to meetings. email).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Your desktop computers, file server, wireless access point, and a data backup device — if you have one — all connect out from your switch. With a network, five colleagues can read and edit the same document from their own computer, plus you can develop shared folders to store joint resources and back up your files.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

You’ll learn how your nonprofit can secure its important documentation. Get your employees set up with an encrypted laptop and make sure they sign into a secure VPN to help protect extremely sensitive IPs. This post will teach you how. You’ll discover what the ins and outs are for remote work—the benefits and the disadvantages.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. For file sharing we use Box.net. These documented 5,245 actions taking place in 181 countries. " Jon was very matter of fact. For office productivity we use Google Apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# If pretty much all I did was documents, email and the web, like many people, I wouldn’t be having these issues. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now. I do demand a lot of my system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. They both have good documentation and active communities.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Older computers (laptops or desktops) can also be used as thin client type access devices in a Windows MultiPoint Server environment. The administrator can see desktop thumbnails of each workstation, broadcast announcements, push files, and block websites and activities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. For file sharing we use Box.net. These documented 5,245 actions taking place in 181 countries. " Jon was very matter of fact. For office productivity we use Google Apps.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 17, 2006

I get blamed for all these network problems, but I am not authorized to delete anyone's Office files. Maybe there are database files I can kill." Another user might have a different covert problem in the same situation: "If I can't store my Word documents, I'll be late getting this report done for tonight's board meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. It is not always easy to keep control of events.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Storrito enables users to create Instagram and Facebook Stories on desktop/laptop computers. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. Small PDF enables users to convert numerous files types into PDFs as well as edit and merge PDFs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks. a conference). Why did this wiki work?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Perhaps your donors are in the CRM, your advocates and evangelists are in an Excel spreadsheet, and your program beneficiaries are in paper files.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Perhaps your donors are in the CRM, your advocates and evangelists are in an Excel spreadsheet, and your program beneficiaries are in paper files.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. It's promised battery life is ten hours -- longer than any laptop to date.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. What this means?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. And our Transforming Communities: App It Up program has a wide variety of resources on specific mobile apps already available for nonprofits and libraries and on developing your own app. The Decline of PCs.

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