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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”

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Great reads from February 19th through February 27th

Amy Sample Ward

5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time - London Net Tuesday's upcoming event on 3 March focuses on online collaboration tools and strategies. Here's a great review of some of the tools available for shared documents. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter.

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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

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. My point here was completely pragmatic – if nonprofits have decided to take the OpenSocial plunge, why not share what they’ve done, and collaborate so that many more can benefit. 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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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. The basic protocols and roles of successful camps were documented in real time and shared in the cloud. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program.

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