Marty Olson, IT Manager for Rise Inc., talks about his organization's recent server upgrade.

Marty Olson, IT Manager for Rise Inc., talks about his organization's hardware upgrades and also their new payroll system.

Jeff Achen, the Interactive Media Strategist for GiveMN, explains how an iPad can be a helpful tool for nonprofits.

Bob Tomasik, Information Systems Administrator for Jewish Family & Children's Service of Minneapolis, talks about his experience purchasing netbooks for certain people within the organization.

Amy Sinykin, Special Projects and Operations Manager for Charities Review Council, raves about her double-monitor desk set-up and how it helps her be more efficient.

Ber Yang, one of MAP's Technology Circuit Riders, recommends that all nonprofits standardize their hardware and software configurations.

If you don't know how fast your computer is or how much RAM it has, there are several tools that can help you get an inventory of the hardware and software if you have a Windows PC

These are small executable programs that you can download to your machine and run that will give you a list of what is on it.

Belarc Advisor is free
www.belarc.com

TechSurveyor at www.techatlas.org is also free
(This requires signing up for a free "Basic" account with TechAtlas.)