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5 Favorite Features, Tips, and Shortcuts for Microsoft Excel

Tech Soup

My co-worker Becky Wiegand already gave you some tips for working more efficiently in Word and PowerPoint , so I've been given the honor of doling out advice for perhaps the most powerful and complex application in the Office suite: Excel.

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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Here are some of their free foundation reports: A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Software : This is their second edition of their comparative review of 20 different grants management packages including Closerware GrantMaker, Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager, MicroEdge GIFTS, WESTAF GrantsOnline, and ZoomGrants.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You have to listen to every comment and accept it as a gift with enthusiasm and a smile. Incorporating exercises and ways for participants to have some thinking and synthesis time in your work can help improve the learning and subsequent application. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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How Churches Can Go High Tech with the Collection Plate

Tech Soup

This trend means even the smallest churches may find it useful to explore low-cost ways to accept electronic donations for offerings, tithes, and other gifts. Microsoft Office is still the go-to application for email, creating newsletters, and other communications such as flyers and PowerPoint presentations. Communications.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Here are some of their free foundation reports: A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Software : This is their second edition of their comparative review of 20 different grants management packages including Closerware GrantMaker, Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager, MicroEdge GIFTS, WESTAF GrantsOnline, and ZoomGrants.

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Good Lessons from a Bad Economy

NTEN

As a fundraising professional, it is easy to feel helpless in these conditions as you watch response rates, average gift, and total revenue decrease. Nonprofits should seize this opportunity to embrace innovations like open source applications that are becoming the standard for the future. The city of Washington, D.C.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" NTEN blog reviews the Google Presentation tool and is sticking with powerpoint. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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