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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. are a good example. greenMeter.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

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. We can easily calendar with them, do email, do Internet searches, make calls, instant message, text, and conference on them. The Almighty Smartphone. The downside?

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Why Apps Are Green

Tech Soup

Apps are only a few years old, but have taken the mobile phone and tablet worlds by storm. They are not only fun, cheap, and useful, but they're also a green technology. They allow much lighter IT equipment to use the Internet, accomplish work, and entertain us. Why Apps Are Green. What Are Apps, Anyway?

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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Telephone: You probably need a phone number that is separate from your personal phone. There are many free and low-cost Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) options, which can be used through your computer and your phone. Ring Central is a commonly used app that bundles video meetings and phone capabilities.

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. Beyond wearables, Samsung also announced the newest member of its Samsung Galaxy line of phones, the S5. the Open C and the Open II.

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

Tech Soup

They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. These are packaged with discounted voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services that unify all your organization's telephones, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers through a virtual PBX software application.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Integrated Mobile Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, this is the very important information that the Seafood Watch Program provides people like me, someone who loves to each seafood, but wants to do it in a responsible way. Before we relied heavily on our cell phones, the program offers small paper guides. Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps.

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