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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region.

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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. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. I like their new free publication, Cloud Computing for Nonprofits. Big Data and the Internet of Things. What this means? Social Media.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. We were challenged several times with the loss of electricity and slow internet.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Telephone, and internet, and electricity, and fuel are spotty. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. You've got to love their logo. " Have any to add?

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. If the software is used in places without internet access of any kind, the software can cache data for uploading later.

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Top 2015 Tech Trends

Tech Soup

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. Blackbaud reports that online giving for 2015 went up steeply (by 52 percent over last year) as both the public and charities increasingly adopt the event. Adoption of Online Services.

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