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Small, But Mighty: A Resource for Small Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2015, a group of nonprofit leaders, funders, consultants, and researchers passionate about the need to foster high performance in nonprofit organizations collaboratively developed The Performance Imperative: A Framework for Social-Sector Excellence (PI). Should the document focus only on nonprofits that hope to get larger?

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Free Webinar: An Introduction to SharePoint 2007 - July 22

Tech Soup

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a comprehensive set of tools that — when supported and deployed well — can help nonprofits and libraries simplify collaborative efforts, organize documents and institutional knowledge, and manage electronic content. read more.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. The other arm is learning. I can’t do what I do without being a technology expert. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 2 admin 11.22.07 That was all.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. at 9:36 am Ha ha, I want to know what the naughty word is!!

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How, When, If To Weave and/or Strengthen Networks Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. So this essay provides some contextualization and principles from online collaboration from the Web 1.0. Collaboration.