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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

The collaboration required at mass scale between governments at the national and local levels, private entities, healthcare institutions, philanthropic donors, nonprofits, and individuals is immense. Amazon is more than just where you get your last-minute holiday gifts. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

This includes things like: Outsourced infrastructure: you rent server space and bandwidth to do with as you see fit, such as Amazon's S3. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Companies such as Amazon are creating massive grid storage and computing services for applications in the cloud. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

They figured out how to use Amazon and apps and all kinds of stuff. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. And doing things as a team in a collaborative, trusting way is always way better than like storming off on your own and expecting people to follow you.