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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). This is great if you are planning to use a cloud system for one or two applications in your organization. Image courtesy of entech. But what is cloud computing? Very low upfront costs.

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Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

Tech Soup

Current examples are Gmail , Yahoo mail , Google Docs , Salesforce , and Microsoft Office Live Workspace. A company provides access to their software applications over the Internet and you access it through your web-browser. I bet many of you are using a form of cloud computing without knowing it.

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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. Online Project Management Tools. Collaboration Tools Chart.

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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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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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