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Time is Money: Solutions for Monitoring Problems With Your Website

Byte Technology

Consider this scenario: your website experiences an outage, but because you don’t monitor it on a regular basis it may be days or weeks before you notice. Using a combination of their free services—Google Spreadsheets, Google Docs and Google Scripts—you can actually construct your own uptime monitoring page to track any number of websites.

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OutLook Addict Seeks Gmail Rehab Program.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When Gmail came out a few years ago, I read the raves from other NpTechers. experiment , I thought I really need to change or try an experiment and blog about it like Miles. Why is that I could easily make the switch from PowerPoint to SlideShare -- from Word to Google Docs from Excel to Google Spreadsheets? It worked.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. You know why I started to twitter. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo.

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A Month with the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

Here's what I've ended up with: Contacts: gSyncIt, via Google (my contacts sync to Gmail, then to the Pre). gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. Tasks: gSyncIt, via Google. Calendar: Google Calendar Sync.

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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter

NetWits

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Beware that Canva can be a real time suck.

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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study

Tech Soup

I talked with Doug Bastien, OCASI's Online Capacity Development Facilitator, and Dave Montague, IT Manager, to find out what prompted them to switch to Google Apps and what their experience has been. For staff who like doing other work in the cloud, having access to Google Calendar, Docs and Sites is great as well.