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The Cloud for Nonprofits

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It is a network of servers that allows you to access applications, files, data etc. This cloud service gives organizations email services, file sharing, contact and calendar sharing, SharePoint, website hosting, and more. Being a nonprofit technology company, this was one we did not want to miss!

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Are You Ready to DIY Office 365?

Tech Soup

Most nonprofit organizations can get free access to hosted email (Exchange), files (SharePoint & OneDrive), and instant messaging (Lync) in the cloud from Microsoft. Cutover migrations can be used to migrate data from Exchange servers and IMAP email providers and are relatively straightforward.

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Hidden Gems for Nonprofits in the TechSoup Catalog

Tech Soup

It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. It provides Office 365 and SharePoint migration and management solutions. It can do this from almost any data source. AvePoint is a new donation program at TechSoup. Mobile Beacon.

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How Nonprofit Board Members Can Help Their Boards with IT – Get Rid of IT!

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I lost sleeping worrying that if the server crashed I could lose all my data. Not only is email part of the Office365 package, but it includes something called SharePoint. SharePoint helped us organize all our shared documents in one place, logically. The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers. You read that right.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

BoxWorks is the annual conference for Box.com, one of the emerging cloud file storage and collaboration companies similar to Dropbox and Huddle. In his keynote at the event, Box CEO Aaron Levie said that today's cloud computing users expect their data to follow them everywhere, at home and at work. via search to end-users.

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It's Not Data if You Can't Use It: Case Studies from Modernizing Nonprofit Systems

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By Kathleen Kurre, CEO, TechBridge "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." --Lewis Carroll - English Logician, Mathematician, Photographer and Writer, Alice in Wonderland The nonprofit sector is buzzing with data and outcomes conversations. Plethoras of data reporting requirements. Paper and more paper.

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How TechSoup Uses Box Donations

Tech Soup

This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. Sharing Files Around the World. We especially like the metadata (data about data) feature. Box allows NGOs to have their critical data securely stored in the cloud. We use a Box Business Plus account.