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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

They ordered goods from Amazon rather than drive to the store. Some rely primarily on generic workplace tools like Google Docs and Microsoft apps, but others invest in industry applications like Better Impact and Volgistics. Many people worked from home, if their work could be done that way. Students gravitated to online classes.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use virtual tools to manage campaign internally (Yammer, Google Docs, Listening Dashboards, Private Facebook Groups, etc). Definitely a keeper for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ) You can order your copy of Social Change Any Time Every Where on Amazon! Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. I have a few comments. He’s right.

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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. 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.

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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. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff).

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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

Maybe your organization uses Outlook 365 for your email, Salesforce as your CRM, Google docs for your document management, and an ERP for inventory management. Amazon is more than just where you get your last-minute holiday gifts. But what about those tools that weren’t? We’ve been able to cut our reporting time by 50%.”.

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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. And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. They don’t need just a login and thoughts and prayers, right? ” .