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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. The On-Demand Nonprofit Katrin Verclas at NTEN examines the implications for nonprofits about the recent announcement of the free Google Premier Apps, a suite of on-demand Google services. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries?

Tech Soup

In Allen "Gunner" Gunn's opening plenary at NTEN's cloud computing event last week , he spoke passionately about the potential for cloud computing to transform organizational boundaries and barriers ( see the video of the session ; Gunner's keynote starts at 29:50). Photo: Simon Webster , CC license

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

My job was to keep everything up and running: the network, file servers, computers, printers, email systems, etc. At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. In 2009, we finalized a technology plan.

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The Fantastic Five GIS Tools for Nonprofits

NTEN

Most nonprofits only ever need the ArcView license, available heavily discounted from TechSoup. These PDF files contain the location details from your map and can also contain some of the attribute data you created. This industry standard program is used in 98% of US-based higher education settings.

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Are You Content Creation Impaired? Here’s Some Tips and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content is sold and licensed based on its standalone merit, with content divisions having separate P&L responsibility. Here’s a terrific case study from Holly Ross at NTEN about how they got their community to help with content creation. Where do you think your organization is in this matrix? Techniques and Tools.

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