Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. This isn’t the only first aid application out there, but the expertise and trust that the Red Cross inspires will likely make it many people’s first choice. Checkon.me

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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. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 26, 2015

We’re a bunch of writers, editors and creative-thinkers—which means organization can prevail, but we might need a little help. These are the cool features we love, why it works for us and how your organization can jump on board with an online productivity tool. Why It Works for Our Organization. Enter Trello. Unique Features.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Interested in Google Apps but not sure how it would fit in your organization? Google Apps is a cloud system that can manage your organization's email, calendar, documents and sites. For staff who like doing other work in the cloud, having access to Google Calendar, Docs and Sites is great as well.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

But that doesn’t mean you can’t have the tools you need to operate your organization effectively. Nonprofit software helps organizations manage their day-to-day functions like administration, fundraising, donor relations, accounting, marketing, and more. Free and affordable contact management software. Bloomerang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Many organizations may not have capacity for one person to be the sole blogger and many times the way into an organizational blog is a team of writers. I think it means nothing. He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

In one of my workshops recently, I talked about online web applications -- the value and benefits as well as the drawbacks. Why is that I could easily make the switch from PowerPoint to SlideShare -- from Word to Google Docs from Excel to Google Spreadsheets? Would I never reap the full benefit of the social life of office documents ?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Among a sea of nonprofits, today’s organizations need to do everything they can to squeeze more out of their marketing budgets. Through the Google Ad Grants program, Google empowers charitable organizations to tap into pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, connecting them with likely prospects online.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So I don’t know if any of these roles describe you, but feel free to throw in the chat what role you hold in your organization, and what your role in grant seeking is. . Yeah, board members, organization managers who assist with grants. How do I navigate and write grant applications? Let’s see if anyone. Fantastic.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It was simply the only way we could operate and build the organization. Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. Judi Sohn, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Work with it.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

It was simply the only way we could operate and build the organization. Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. Judi Sohn, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Work with it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

You must be a proactive self-starter, extremely organized, and able to juggle multiple deadline-driven tasks simultaneously. This is an opportunity to be involved with every aspect of a changing organization. These activities are not optional; you must return the application to be fully considered for the job.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. They also used wufoo.com , which helps create online forms, process applications for programs, manage magazine applications, subscriptions and more. . "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. -

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

What's the most immediately useful application of Web 2.0 So many museums suffer from departmental siloing, deluges of all-staff emails, the painful jujitsu required to collate seven versions of the same document. Do you need a way to report, document, and share day-to-day information on a project or within your department?

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