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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. Expand your reach by sharing it with different groups, listservs, and affinity networks. Read other RFPs to understand what works.

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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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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. I can see how our top volunteers can use this to connect and collaborate with each other. There are desktop and mobile Chatter tools that probably make this a bit easier.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Tags: Collaboration.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

In this post, we hope to voice many of the tools, resources, and tactics that have been shared, in hopes of encouraging others around the world to get involved with the digital relief efforts." In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world.

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. "I need a tool that does xyz for abc purpose. Sometimes clarifying questions.

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