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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. This application makes building step-by-step tutorials so incredibly easy. You usually only need Pro if you are going to be exporting full manuals or uploading to a MindTouch or Confluence wiki. They ask, "Judi, how do I.?"

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet.

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. The web interface is great, as is the desktop applications.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As applications come in, the VC helps to narrow the pool, coordinate interviews, and run background checks. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Sharing of opportunities among alumni and donors could be encouraged. Filtering candidates to assess fit is a crucial step.

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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. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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