Judi Sohn

JULY 21, 2013

Right around the time I started at KELL Partners last year, I helped our team implement Smartsheet as our main tool for keeping track of timelines, requirements and deliverables with clients and internal projects. I’ve been asked a few times, “Why Smartsheet? Why aren’t you just using Google Docs?”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Barriers to Collaboration. Useful Collaboration Tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. Starting a Collaborative Project. If you need to look outside of your organization for collaborators, look to your network.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2009

Online collaboration is a great way to work with colleagues without having to be face-to-face. Whether I'm in a remote office, on the road, working from home, or just sitting down the hall, sharing documents and using other collaborative tools online saves time, money, and the environment.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

You've heard about some time-saving free Google Docs templates that can save time for non-profits creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations – but did you know Microsoft.com has a bundle of free Office Suite templates that are designed especially for non-profits? read more ).

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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. Timing is key. What times of day are people posting?

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare.

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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. Throughout the session, we’d divide into smaller groups or pairs to learn from each other more collaboratively. So I started using collaborative Google documents. And guess what?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

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. It’s not so up to date, and it’s a list more of tools I have used, and some I still use.). It works for multiple projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

But hindsight and time turners are not useful now. We will have time for the Renaissance, but only if we make it through. 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. ?? As with the service sector, so our fate.

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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. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Beware that Canva can be a real time suck.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If you’re not sure how much time to provide, consider these conservative timelines: Creating a posting for the open position | 1 Week. Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. In times of nonprofit leadership transition and onboarding, the in-person training can often be rushed or stressful. Best of all?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Then, around mid-afternoon, when it’s time to start making important decisions, you’ve hit cognitive load. What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? You’re mentally and physically spent. There Is A Better Way. ?What

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. 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. ’).

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! Score one for team collaboration!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

The cloud also eliminates the tedious tasks of installing, maintaining, and upgrading software solutions every time a newer version is released. All Day, Anywhere Collaboration. Those who work within a nonprofit can benefit from the numerous team collaboration tools, including calendars, video chat, file sharing, and so on.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If you’re not sure how much time to provide, consider these conservative timelines: Creating a posting for the open position | 1 Week. Communicate Clearly and Collaboratively. In times of nonprofit leadership transition and onboarding, the in-person training can often be rushed or stressful. Best of all?

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! Score one for team collaboration!

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

With Bloomerang, donor communication works automatically and provides you with the information you need at the right time. With Golden, you can start mobilizing your network toward accomplishing your goals in no time. Collaborate on grant applications or annual reports using Google Docs. Google Workspace.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. Feel confident that you aren’t wasting time on unproductive tasks. But there is no time like the present!

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

TechSoup Global reflects on collaboration and inspiration at the TechSoup Global Contributors Summit. Pacific time. The Canadian technology battle continues with head-to-head reviews of document collaboration solutions, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. From the TechSoup Global Network. From TechSoup Global.

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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. Web conferencing excels where rich collaboration and close interaction are needed and teams are dispersed. Webcam sharing (multiple users). Attendee polling and statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

Thus, in typical unconference style, we created our own session on the agenda called "Fostering Participation in Hard Economic Times." Limited computer time at D.C. Service providers should conduct training on free tools, such as Google Docs, that are more widely available for those on tight budgets. CreatetheGood.org.

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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

APRIL 21, 2012

We did not prepare speakers to address a diverse audience, and it brings up the larger need to spend more time preparing speakers in general. This is probably because we never really made up our minds about how to approach it this year, so we changed course several times. And not everyone got it. NTCFail 2: Name Badges.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

The problem with this is that nonprofits come in all different shapes and sizes, and sometimes staff capacity is short and time is limited. Designate a conference social media lead - when you have more than one cook in the kitchen, so to speak, social media can get messy, especially for a real-time event like a major conference.

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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

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. kind of experiment include project management, collaboration tools and online publishing. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. Sure, but here's point 3: it doesn't matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. In a networked nonprofit, VCs could partner new volunteers with experienced volunteers to save time in orientation. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. Sure, but here's point 3: it doesn't matter.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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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. We’ve been able to cut our reporting time by 50%.”. The answer to how this happens is interoperability.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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