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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. to open its profiles to Google search. Nonprofits can use groups). There is an interesting debate taking place about Facebook between Dana Boyd and Robert Scoble about Facebook's plan.

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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. By the time we all arrived at the event, Heidi had created a separate collaborative note-taking doc for each session, and one that served as a table of contents. right here.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. 0) above and beyond all, google rules. How did we ever do tech support before google?

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

This ability to organize content segments, like moving post-its around on a table, makes wikis more useful than other collaborative document creation tools like Google Docs. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet. Think back on the WikiDemo example.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

organizations and allies through Google Reader (RSS subscription. service), as well as by getting news updates from Google Alerts, and. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. content that relates to my project, I follow lots of blogs of partner.

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