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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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Social Media for Nonprofits Launches Its Second Series of Global Conferences

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But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA. Austin, TX – October 23. Seattle, WA – November 1. New York City, NY – November TBA.

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Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

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A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. Industry and policy leaders shared information on the current state of African electronics recycling and refurbishment policy and practice. Those of us presenting from the U.S. and Weeelabex.

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The Upcoming E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference in South Africa

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As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013. Special emphasis will be placed on voluntary industry standards like Responsible Recycling (R2) in the U.S.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

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Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge.

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How Our Organization Migrated to Office 365 in a Few Weeks

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I found out at the NTC Conference that nonprofits can mix and match Office 365 E1 and E3 licensing. IMPORTANT: I found out the hard way that I needed to ensure that the Outlook client on each workstation was configured to cache all mail locally, rather than 12 months, which is the default setting for profiles set up in Outlook 2013.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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We can easily calendar with them, do email, do Internet searches, make calls, instant message, text, and conference on them. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. TechSoup: Telework Policies. More and more things online and in the cloud are geared to smartphones now. Tablet adoption is very brisk.