Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Continuing a series of posts on tips and tricks for Microsoft Office, this month we're tackling Outlook 2010. Looking for tips and tricks on other Office 2010 products? Creating calendars for each project you work on is a handy way to stay organized. Do you have favorite features, shortcuts, or tips for using Outlook?

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Here''s what they said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Ted Fickes (note the dog in the avatar) I'm trying to use relatively high profile project for wiki-type adoption internally. Kalabird we used google docs wiki-like platform to build our new website's copy decks and implementation plan.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

They may designate the gift toward a specific program or project in your nonprofit, or they may leave it to you to use as needed, which is my favorite! Don’t worry about providing legal language or sample docs because your donors already have their own attorney who will take care of all the verbiage and paperwork.

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Giving Gift Donor Doc 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. There is better and smarter technology out there, such as Owl Cameras that will automatically move to and project the person speaking on the screen. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Before kicking off your project, consider the following: . Executive sponsorship is key throughout the project but especially at g o -l ive. It also gives you an opportunity to share any tips that w ere newly discovered. . Set up regular audits of training docs and business processes. Pre go-live training .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2015

So when I heard about a collaborative project between nonprofits, city agencies, and the local library happening in my own backyard (almost literally!), A Nonprofit-Driven Community Project. The project was spearheaded by Real Options for City Kids (ROCK) , a neighborhood nonprofit and TechSoup member. spanhidden.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

What it does: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet— Google Workspace is a collection of Google productivity tools that help your team collaborate efficiently. Collaborate on grant applications or annual reports using Google Docs. Read our tips for fighting Zoom fatigue in a virtual world. Google Meet.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Online Project Management Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I was really impressed with the summit: I came away with a much clearer sense of what the cloud is all about, some tips for easing the transition to the cloud, and a good. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. A Few Tips for Going into the Cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Like much else about the era, maybe it was just too early.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Like much else about the era, maybe it was just too early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Leave me a comment with any tips or suggestions for reducing information overload. Are you always seeking out additional information from the Internet or friends online to support a decision or complete a project but never processing it all? Answer yes or no to the questions below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Colorado Project. It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. One-day or half-workshops are only one touch point.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Our team at Get Fully Funded uses Trello to manage our individual to do lists plus all our team projects. But there ARE huge, daunting projects and articles I need to write that I feel stumped about, and other very challenging activities that require a lot of creativity and brain power. Break down big projects into smaller bites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 1:18 pm Timely post, I am currently doing at pretty large scale project for a client and those are the exact issues I am determining right now. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. -mathew [link] 2 admin 01.15.09 at 12:43 pm Just wait for my follow up posts! 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So we’ve got a true grant expert here to talk about some tips for you. . I see we have some additional questions about competitiveness and finding your right niche, and tips for getting unrestricted grants, and writing grants in a compelling way. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2019

Get more tips in the free webinar “Learning the Secret to Selling Event Sponsorships ”. If she can’t describe your project in one sentence and the benefit of being involved, you don’t get money. What good is a 1,000 word doc and one-pager when my friend will only work with you after a discovery call?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So I like to document a projected revenue gap between expenses and income over a 10-year period. Here’s a simple little chart where all you do is you just look at the next 10 years and you project what your revenue is going to be, all things being equal, based on how you’re fundraising and how your sales, etc.,

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The next step was to create a deployment plan and a timeline for the project. I announced the decision to make the migration at the all staff meeting -- we have 8 FTE, 6 - 8 PTE and 3 Vista/AmeriCorps members -- and presented the plan and timeline for the project. HandsOn Bay Area has now been using Google Apps for over a year.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# make sure the client “owns&# the project.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So we’ve got some early bird tips for you. If you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier, a little higher chance that we get to that question as insider tip for you, but we won’t discriminate. And I keep a Google Doc of my all-time favorite subject lines, and I get inspired all the time.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In the years since, we were spread out across the country, working on various cancer-related projects and interests. While we're programmatically just starting to tip our toes into social media, we operate efficiently primarily using a variety of web-based services and tools. We have never purchased a server and have no plans for one.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In the years since, we were spread out across the country, working on various cancer-related projects and interests. While we're programmatically just starting to tip our toes into social media, we operate efficiently primarily using a variety of web-based services and tools. We have never purchased a server and have no plans for one.

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Lesson Cancer Learning PDF 96

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Wikis are useful when a distributed team is designing a project together or managing a changing set of projects. This is the most basic reason to use a wiki.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! content that relates to my project, I follow lots of blogs of partner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Is that why we're seeing so many charity online stores like the one from Campus Kitchens Project and Amnesty International. Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Research has found, for instance, that rideshare drivers of color systematically receive lower reviews and tips. workers (and a majority of all millennials) participating in the gig/ platform economy as their first or secondary job; “freelance” workers like these were projected to be a majority of all workers by 2027.

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