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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Engage in online forums, email listservs, and directly with vendors or agencies. This preparatory step ensures you create an informative document that minimizes back-and-forth queries, leading to more precise proposals. Expand your reach by sharing it with different groups, listservs, and affinity networks.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

Katherine told our Dulcey Bower that her churches use Microsoft Office for their email and documents, Dropbox. Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. You can add tags to your documents! (No

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. I'm hoping that video blogging can be spread to the nonprofit sectors - as a way for organizations to tell their stories and document their work. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections. Where do I find more information?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Create collaborative, student-authored resources. A wiki is a collaborative website and writing tool that allows people to easily contribute, delete and edit content. Hiring people.

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