LA non-profit Woodcraft Rangers chooses Nokia Lumia

Published by Jason Harris on July 4, 2012

 Woodcraft Rangers Spirit Jam

Woodcraft Rangers is a Los Angeles-based non-profit that serves 16,500 young people with the opportunity to learn and be enriched through after-school programs. The organization, which started in 1922, goes into the most in-need neighborhoods and provides students in kindergarten through high school. The kids learn and explore through physical education, visual/performing arts, science, math, technology and literacy.

With a field staff spread across the Southland region, they need a flexible and dependable  technology infrastructure to power their operations. The Nokia Lumia 900 is now being toted by Woodcraft Rangers staff and is actively making them more efficient and connected to the office and one another.

Getting stuff done

More than 90 employees at the non-profit have received the Lumia 900 in the Cyan color, and they staff says they love them. Woodcraft Rangers looked at every smartphone option in the market, including costly BlackBerries, and chose the Lumia 900 because it was easy to use and extremely practical.

As to what convinced Woodcraft Rangers the Lumia 900 was the right solution, the IT staff liked the sturdy construction of the Lumia 900. David Lara, IT administrator for Woodcraft noted:

“The sturdy construction of the Lumia 900 stood out to us. Other options seemed too delicate and focused on entertainment. Nokia’s option gave us the functionality of the most popular smartphone in a format that lets us focus on our work.”
 

Lumia 900 camera Cyan

In daily operations, site coordinators use their mobile phones to share and review documents in the field. Also, employees can use an app on the Lumia to work with their time cards – ensuring payroll accuracy.

Nokia Lumia is built for business

With many organizations already having Microsoft powering their back office operations (it seems almost everyone uses Outlook at work), the Nokia Lumia is a powerful tool for mobile professionals. With support for Microsoft Office built in to the Lumia line along with productivity tools such as Microsoft Lync, SkyDrive, Evernote and thousands of other business apps, the options for professionals are astounding.

“We were looking to repurpose BlackBerry servers so right there we are saving money,” said David Lara, “Additionally, our site coordinators like the big, bright Live Tiles, the Lumia’s large screen and we like the seamless integration to our Office Suite,” he added.

With Lumias serving as a mobile extension of your employees’ office, CIOs and network admins can leverage the back office investment they’ve made with no additional licensing costs for using mobile phones.

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  • title22

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    [Adrian Wojnarowski: Deron Williams confirms to $22.99 million cope with Nets]

    Howard caused it to be crystal clear as later as Weekend in order to Wojnarowski he might just re-sign within 2013 along with one group — obviously the Netting squad they have lengthy coveted the trade in order to — intimidating to actually engage in the growing season along with Orlando in order to sign having a Brooklyn group which could provide a main recommendation kicker in the cope with their preferred footwear organization}. Williams’ enormous offer, and also the agreed-upon industry that could deliver Joe Manley in order to Brooklyn, seem to possess greatly reduced the actual Nets’ chances within the Howard contest.

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    Netting fans cannot burden on their own at this time thinking about the convenience prize associated with Johnson as well as Wallace, although, simply because … nicely, indeed they are able to.

    A combination of badly conceived goes by common office manager Billy Cal . king (dealing the lottery choose with regard to Wallace, after that overpaying your pet within a marketplace that could possess yielded up probably half the length as well as financial range to save face) as well as immaturity upon Howard’s component has led to the scenario which very good rather than ideal for Brooklyn — as well as potentially devastating with regard to Howard.

    [Adrian Wojnarowski: Miracle eyes Bynum because target within possible Howard trade]

    Williams is really a foundation worth remembering, although. He is an easy termes conseillés who ought to thrive within a pick-and-roll video game with Manley great short-lived Netting teammates such as Wallace as well as possibly Lopez as well as Kris Humphries. As well as he’ll become a complete stone in a required position set up Netting are remaining to reside along with where everything gone wrong within the springtime and summer time of this — encircling one night it gone fine. Putting your signature on Williams is usually more than fine, even though the actual Nets may have performed this much better, they will certainly a minimum of possess its estampille player since it minds in to the brand new Barclays Middle inside the very first game since the Brooklyn Netting this drop.

    Cal . king did wonderful work to keep Williams’ mood as this individual worked with the sixteen 1/2 repairing months within the period since having been exchanged through the Ut Jazz to some awful Nets group playing your thread within Newark, And. L. And it is definitely not King’s problem which Howard chose to take action therefore wishy-washy for just one fateful time within mid-March whenever Dwight chickened away and approved his gamer choice. And it is no make sure — without even Wallace or even Johnson’s agreements aboard — the actual Nets might have sufficient to offer with regard to Howard.

    It can worth asking yourself regarding, although. The actual Nets obtained their chicken within the hands. Might they have got drawn another?

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  • Rex Reyes III

    “With many organizations already having Microsoft powering their back office operations”…

    ^ Haterz should realize this, and Nokia+MS should really milk this.
    Plus the Xbox which is gaining popularity etc