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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. The best way to do this is to require volunteers to fill out an application. Volunteer applications may vary depending on the nonprofit. Supervise Volunteers. Recognize Volunteers.

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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. You can easilyl collaborate with spreadsheets and docs.

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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study

Tech Soup

Are you frustrated with your current email system, or find it’s costing too much to maintain? Google Apps is a cloud system that can manage your organization's email, calendar, documents and sites. OCASI has about 30 staff in their Toronto office, and before Google Apps they were using a hosted email solution.

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The center of my workflow, like for most consultants, is email. I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. The web interface is great, as is the desktop applications. Evernote rocks my world. It’s a great tool.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

The RFP will outline the purpose of your website; the need, timing, and overview of the project, site features, and other requirements for applicants. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.

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