Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2015

So when I heard about a collaborative project between nonprofits, city agencies, and the local library happening in my own backyard (almost literally!), I spoke with Curt Yagi, the executive director of ROCK, about how the guide came about and the collaborative work that went into it. I knew I had to write about it.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

This may be you, or a bit of you; I'm often collaborating with folks, including other staff here at Database Designs, who slice up the tool pie differently. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in.

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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. There were some fabulous responses.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: Ed Rodley (with Koven Smith) have a wonderful idea, a global drinking about museums. Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A few of the ideas that caught my attention are below. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. sense of both the opportunities and challenges cloud computing can bring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics. Everyone blocks out the same time/date to have the meeting. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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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?" But what do my non-profit users want from the internet? I've tried.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

What he envisioned was a single place for board members to go to find and add information, collaborate, schedule meetings and access reference materials, but he didn’t want the expense or effort of building a private portal like a larger organization could afford to do. “I It’s not real time, but you can use it that way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Types of Remote Work (Buffer) Remote Maturity Model (Ma.tt) Team Building Remote/Hybrid Teams (Collaboration Superpowers) Hybrid Schedules (Trello) Core Hours to Create Focus & Trust for Hybrid Schedule (New Republic). Here are some good posts to better understand those options and to figure out what works for your organization.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Despite some of the restrictions of the Science Fair reported, when asked about your favorite moments of the conference, here were just two replies of several: As always, the Science Fair is tremendously helpful for our organization to hear ideas and start forging/reinforcing relationships. Talk about generosity. Flat out, fail.

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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. You can make your discussion more private and direct, or appeal to a wider audience to share information and crowdsource ideas. What is G Suite?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month.

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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. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. But how did she know? This is incredibly important.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

These individuals, recipients of the annual NTEN Award , are the people working hard to move NTEN''s mission forward from within the community: always ready to share a case study, idea, or contact. Before 13NTC, he teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking docs for the breakout sessions at the conference.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

When we first shared this idea, Will’s boss said, "this is a great and innovative project, but it only serves one part of the community. That’s also one of the reasons we made the video with An about her Morse code Twitter stream in January—so anyone who’s curious can get an idea of what this is about.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I have no idea whether I’m using them correctly. I get good ideas from webinars like these, and I try to execute on them. How can I help you come up with some ideas to do your job more efficiently?” 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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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. " That's a powerful idea, but does it work?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

How’s it going, doc? Oh, yeah, some other people put some other ideas in the chat, too. And I think the reasons really have to do with the ideas that all of you are mentioning here. If we did everything we wanted to do, had an unlimited amount of time, money and collaboration with other partners. You doing okay? .

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Online Collaboration. A print magazine is one of PT's main activities, providing an additional channel for the global community of young Jews to exchange ideas. . They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. So how does this "incubator" work? .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Do you have no idea what's going on beyond your department or team except when an annoying all-staff email announces locker cleanup this Friday? Do you need a way to do research and brainstorm collaboratively with your team? Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. Google Apps.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sort of depends on your budget and your needs and if you’ve got access maybe through a library or some sort of collaborative organization, a membership to Foundation Directory Online. . Or are they coming back with different ideas or with concerns? You may even need to discuss your partnership or collaborations. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? Great idea, right?

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