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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The best way to do this is to require volunteers to fill out an application. Volunteer applications may vary depending on the nonprofit. Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Giveffect, for example, offers online applications with options to customize fields and questions.

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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

This application makes building step-by-step tutorials so incredibly easy. They have a hosted version , but at a minimum of $20/month it's more than I want to spend now compared to a one-time software license purchase. And it was cumbersome to organize and build. Then this week, I found ScreenSteps.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). We cannot interface with other desired applications. Or the cost of maintaining current hardware or paying current licensing fees vs. the cost a new system.

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Chromebook for Nonprofits: Are Web Apps All You Need?

Tech Soup

I can migrate their Microsoft Access applications to a free Salesforce account. Now they have no need for local applications or data. They can take them anywhere they need, access all their applications and data, never worry about malware, backups, disaster recovery, etc. I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. plus $2 per user license. Collaboration Tools Chart.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. If you have an email list captured by one application, a donor list captured by another, a social network in another, and you give them all equal “weight,&# then you’re asking for trouble. So what’s the right strategy?

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

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. .

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