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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Request for Proposals (RFPs) are a critical tool for nonprofits seeking services from vendors or consultants. 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.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

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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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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. In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient? And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?