Twitter has become the go-to social-media portal for sharing tidbits of breaking news, personal thoughts, and serendipitous discoveries. Most people access their Twitter feeds – postings from those they follow – via portable devices, especially smartphones. Concurrently, smartphones are the devices that conveniently allow people to send tweets from conferences, crises, field work, and sporting […]
#How-To: Mobile Apps (iPhone & Android) For Office Productivity
We have to grow comfortable with the oxymoron “mobile office.” As mobile technologies improve, the expectations are rising that a nonprofit’s pitching staff and a charity’s road warriors are not just getting content from the office (a la 2002), they are making content on the road. At the least, they are expected to tweak […]
#Tech: Does The Smartphone Move Us To A Post-PC, Post-Camera, Post-mp3 player… World?
Few things in life are more futile, and such great fun, as predicting the future. From Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History to Harold Camping’s Time Has An End (the web design exhibited here ended, thankfully, about 1997), we invariably misunderstand what will be the next big thing. And when we get it wrong we […]
#SN: Apple Integrates Twitter In Operating System-Whither Facebook?
For the Apple-centric, Apple-desirers, and Apple-nutcases, a Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC (World Wide Developers’ Conference) is worth two offered by mere mortals – even those on Cupertino’s payroll. This past week in California, Apple announced a number of features that focused on a ‘post-pc’ world (not a world without personal computers, but a […]
#Tech: How to Print a Document from Your Mobile Device
Cloud computing is going through some growing pains that are not likely to end in these hot summer months. Nevertheless, all tech-watchers argue that cloud storage of documents and software is the future of computing. Working on one’s fundraising pitch at home, synching to one’s online storage service (some of which will be reviewed next […]
#SocialNetworks: VolunteerMatch Leads Way In (Free!) Tech Outreach
The iOS platform for the iPhone and iPad is notoriously closed for apps dedicated to fundraising. Some companies have found ways to use the mobile software to reach volunteers and grow networks of potential donors (or donors via other platforms). One such nonprofit is VolunteerMatch, whose iPhone app offers opportunities to search for local projects […]
#Tech: Memorial Day History & Technology To Get You Home
Memorial Day in the US sits on the opposite end of the calendar of most of the western (post-)industrial nations who celebrate it on November 11. While theirs marks the end of hostilities from The Great War (aka World War I), ours marks our Civil War, and was begun to create an opportunity for reunifying […]
#Tech: The Apple Mac Mini Server – Part 3
Scott Caldarelli returns to continue his discussion of the advantages of the inexpensive Mac Mini Server for your office. In my last installment of this ongoing series, I talked about the Mac mini server and using Kerio Connect for your contacts, calendars and possibly email. As a reminder, let me summarize: Apple‘s Mac mini Server […]