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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

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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Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

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. Offline synchronization capabilities aren't very good yet. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). They're just plain expenses.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Digital space becomes more important than physical space. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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5 Tips To Create a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Hybrid Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). You and your team must become fluent at both synchronous and asynchronous work styles.

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