Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

For most of that time, except when I was doing heavy collaborative editing with colleagues who are using MS Office, it is my Office Suite of choice. It does have a drawing program, an XML editor, as well as a math equation editor, in addition to the standard word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool and database.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. Not only will this present continuity and stability, but it will also curb gossip and false information. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Ambiguity or a lack of transparency can leave teams, donors, and stakeholders nervous.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2012

We'll also present best practices for using these online tools and how to operate fully integrated, multi-channeled communications and fundraising programs. What tools in the cloud can be employed for Collaboration, Social Media, Marketing, Website/Content Management and more?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Best Free Project Management Software for Nonprofits Project management software is specialized productivity software that makes it easier for teams to collaborate on projects, set deadlines, and keep their fellow team members up to date on the status of different tasks. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

In today’s world of dispersed meetings, web conferencing allows presenters and participants to securely engage with one another through real-time video. With the ability to present slides, share links and desktops, conduct polls, and create and store meeting notes, virtual meetings can be more productive than meetings in person.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. Not only will this present continuity and stability, but it will also curb gossip and false information. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Ambiguity or a lack of transparency can leave teams, donors, and stakeholders nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I personally liked the definition presenter Peter Campbell, of Earthjustice , used: an outsourced platform, application, or suite of applications delivered over the Internet. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff).

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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

We spent HOURS struggling with how we should describe the various types of sessions we wanted to present, as well as the difficulty levels. Anna did a great job trying to cut across those silos, holding weekly project meetings, pulling staff together for smaller consultations, using collaborative docs and projects plans, etc.

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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. Leave pre-printed forms on seats, in conference packets, or have volunteers hand them out at the doors before each presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. 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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

We need to stand tall in this present and get to another future. 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. ??: Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

But there is no time like the present! A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. Do you have to start in January? As you grow into your fundraising strategy, you will want to start your fundraising plan when your fiscal year starts. Learn from the past. What worked? What didn’t?

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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). The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations.

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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 worked pretty well for that,” Wolber said.

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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). A version of this blog post was published on Network for Good as part of Webinar co-presented with Meico Whitlock).

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

They support the community by writing articles and presenting sessions and webinars. While we''re excited to present this award annually to a single individual, we know that a successful community is much more than than one person. Oh, and they make us laugh, too. In short, they embody NTEN''s Values.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But this week we posted a video of Lisa’s presentation on the 1stfans private Facebook group and she'll be available for Q&A on Facebook. 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. We're curious to see how that goes.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

As a consultant working for an agency, sometimes there can be some issues with sharing "institutional knowledge" but all of the presenters I saw -- orgs and agencies alike -- were totally open and honest and it is a delight to be in that kind of company. we accepted sessions with the clause that they collaborate. Talk about generosity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

How’s it going, doc? So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are. So every time I teach or present, I like to do group agreements. You know, Matt, also chimed in saying, is it kind of an ever-present processes or is it continual?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

But she is awesome, so talk to her, and you’re going to get a lot of that out of this presentation. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. And I’m going to pipe down. I’ve already taken up too much time away from you, Maureen.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation and we will be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on today. You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. Just a couple of quick housekeeping items. So check that out if you are interested.

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