Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

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. I love the collaboration features.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Features: You’ll likely need to invest in other software solutions to send emails, collect online donations, etc., Google Workspace Platform overview: Google Workspace for Nonprofits is a flexible productivity and communication platform with multiple apps to streamline team collaboration. transaction fee per donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. Wikis are just great for that!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. Right out of the gate, you can give your organization professional polish by setting up your organization with an orgname.org email address. Mailchimp is a favorite email marketing platform among nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. This includes the person leaving since they won’t be texted or emailed for a password every few days. Email is Company Property. Of course, a long notice period isn’t always possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Because they are collaboratively editable, they are great for anything that requires a teasing out a group voice – agendas, statements or announcements, etc. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. This includes the person leaving since they won’t be texted or emailed for a password every few days. Email is Company Property. Of course, a long notice period isn’t always possible.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study. 615 KB DOC). TechSoup Webinar Recording: Online Collaboration Tools. (Please visit the site to view this media). Additional Resources. Worksheet: Is Google Apps Right for Me? Technology Planning Resources. Video: Getting Started with Google Apps. Google Apps Boot Camp Recap.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

All of this is done virtually combining video conferencing with a collaborative tool to capture notes and ideas along the way. So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. Something as simple as asking them to open a google doc and write their name at the top of the document.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

What it does: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet— Google Workspace is a collection of Google productivity tools that help your team collaborate efficiently. Collaborate on grant applications or annual reports using Google Docs. Google Workspace. Kindful CRM Integration: Partially.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Many participants agreed that sharing documents in the cloud over services like Google Docs simplifies working together: you can access your documents from anywhere and don't need to worry about the headaches that can arise from sending documents back and forth via email.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

Web conferencing excels where rich collaboration and close interaction are needed and teams are dispersed. Audio, video, application, and screen sharing (jpg, ppt, pdf, flash, mp3, doc). Avoid the urge to check email, read the news, or organize your desktop during a meeting. Why Should You Also Use Audio Conferencing Services?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. .” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

Be helpful to “future you” - Keep a working Google Doc on hand for all conference planners to provide notes and recommendations about what to improve and do differently next year. Conference organizing should be a collaborative effort with a few people from every department.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. i.e. Can you email me the job desc?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2010

Ian and company had even set up a Google Doc where the audience could post their notes on the panel as it was taking place. But with the fun of introducing the tech goodies out of the way, Ian began by explicitly laying out that the session wouldn't focus on online collaboration and communications tools.

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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. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure.

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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. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The collaboration required at mass scale between governments at the national and local levels, private entities, healthcare institutions, philanthropic donors, nonprofits, and individuals is immense. The same could also be said of vaccine distribution during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

Board members were accustomed to communicating electronically, met by telephone conference call, and exchanged information by email without any technical difficulty. “It We started using it, nudging people toward it, but I continued emailing agendas out, too,” he said. “At “They were relatively tech-savvy,” he said.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

as “an emerging network-centric platform to support distributed, collaborative and cumulative creation by its users.” I think this really sums up the user-centric view of a lot of the discussion. Why can't you just send her a doc like you did last week?" Meanwhile, you still can still send the Senator's aide an email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Every now and then someone sends me an email clearly mistaking me for the other Michael Stein. " I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring. While Web 2.0

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

From our calendars, to our email accounts, to important documents and spreadsheets, Google is our best friend. This can be a lifesaver, as you no longer have to deal with transferring information between flash drives or emailing documents from computer to computer. Collaboration. And why wouldn’t it be? Compatibility.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Personalised emails, great collaboration software, secure communications – all for free. G Suite is Google’s collection of business apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. There’s no longer any need for long email threads swapping documents back and forth or trying to work out when your whole team is free!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. We chose the email vehicle believing that the element of surprise would be important to our efforts.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Annika Billqvist, Office and Technology Manager, HandsOn Bay Area When I started at HandsOn Bay Area in 2006, the organization didn’t have a long-term technology plan in place and used many different systems for communication, collaboration, and data storage. In 2009, we finalized a technology plan.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

When accepted into Google for Nonprofits, you’ll receive an email from Google. From here, you simply wait for an email from Google. Accept the invitaiton, and accept the billing profile, which will be sent to you in a separate email. Submit the Google Ad Grants application. ’ Accept the invitation.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You may find, “Wow, we’ve got three tools that could send email.” Maybe we want to, you know, tighten it down and just use one email tool. Everybody needs an email tool. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Collaborative web applications that have to be loaded separately in their own environment with separate login credentials have been extremely difficult to adopt.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Collaborative web applications that have to be loaded separately in their own environment with separate login credentials have been extremely difficult to adopt.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

In that sense, the project evolved from simply a conceptual one at the outset into one that was performative and collaborative--an Internet theatre of sorts. Shelley's warmth and enthusiasm stood out over email and even more so in person, and I soon found myself actively reading and occasionally participating in the blogs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

If you've ever worked with a consultant or collaborated with a colleague in another organization, you probably hit a roadblock when you realized that that person didn't have access to an internal system. It's more likely that you cobbled together an imperfect solution, sending updates by email attachment.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

You can link XERO with Expensify (an expenses tracker with a nice mobile app) and Receipt Bank (for tracking more email-based regular invoices and payments) via XERO's app store. InVision and Marvel are prototyping tools in which you can have many people contribute and leave comments, like Google Docs for design. Email Marketing.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Just look for an email from me a few hours after we adjourn today. . I will say that it is not a problem whatsoever to find funding opportunities through multiple channels, organically through hearing about something, somebody emailing you an opportunity, etc. There’s a chat box and a Q&A box. You certainly can.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

So many museums suffer from departmental siloing, deluges of all-staff emails, the painful jujitsu required to collate seven versions of the same document. This way, each new staff person can enter her own name, email, phone, etc., Do you need a way to do research and brainstorm collaboratively with your team? the list goes on.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

we accepted sessions with the clause that they collaborate. With all of your check-ins and photos, work email and online agenda checks, there''s never enough bandwidth. We have gathered so much great feedback from the evaluations, our own experiences, and from many post-conference calls and emails. Talk about generosity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Online Collaboration. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. The down side is that it's easy to forget things using these applications, like finding an email from a person who agreed to become a volunteer, so it was decided to use something more solid.

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