Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. I love the collaboration features.

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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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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

It also keeps you organized by reducing data redundancy, tracking donor activity, and providing automatic reports. What it does: Bloomerang is a donor management and fundraising software that allows nonprofits to organize their donor records and optimize donor engagement through tracking and reporting. Google Workspace.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If your in that camp it’s likely you are using Google Drive, Google’s document collaboration tool and its replacement for Google Docs.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This week I found apps that will help your collaborate, communicate well, and stay safe and fit! The app tracks your progress and the distance you cover while walking, running, or biking. If your in that camp it’s likely you are using Google Drive, Google’s document collaboration tool and its replacement for Google Docs.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

So, take the time to track your data this year and you’ll be all set for this step next year! A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. Staying on track Review your plan at the beginning of each month. Often an event brings in the cost plus a few thousand dollars profit.

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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). If a meeting is getting off-track, speak up and steer the conversation. Today, that’s just about everything and everyone. That's it!

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

Service providers should conduct training on free tools, such as Google Docs, that are more widely available for those on tight budgets. Here are some additional volunteer service web sites I tracked down after our discussion. Raw, collaboratively-written notes from this session are also available. Service Nation campaign.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

We have over 100 sessions across 6 tracks at the NTC, so it's really hard to find ANY application that can display all that data in a meaningful but user-friendly way. What we WILL do is make this an issue we can discuss as a community when NTC planning picks up this summer. NTCFail 4: Online agenda. We know - it was REALLY HARD to navigate.

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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. Slow, but it works!

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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. 8: Hybrid Meeting: Specific Facilitation Tips.

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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. There was one database of projects, one set of guidelines for project management and shared progress-tracking system across boundaries, time zones, and domains of expertise.

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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. There was one database of projects, one set of guidelines for project management and shared progress-tracking system across boundaries, time zones, and domains of expertise.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Track marketing performance. Set up valid conversion tracking. Any Google Ad Grant accounts using Smart Bidding or created after 2018 must have valid conversion tracking set up. You can use a Google Ads conversion tracking tag or import goals from Google Analytics. 4) Track meaningful conversions for your ads.

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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. Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. You can collaborate on notes with your team, and then view your ideas on any device while you work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Basecamp is a project space where everyone associated with a project can post updates, set and track deadlines and milestones, and even upload files associated with the project. Accountability can be a two-way street, with the same system that tracks staff's deadlines tracking the ED's work too.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here.

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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. Accounting.

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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. We couldn't use our exisiting setup to process these memberships, so we had to rethink it by using Google Checkout for payment and Google Docs to keep track of folks.

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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. Salesforce helps manage PT's contacts, work flow, fellows and mentors tracking, magazine subscriptions, opportunities, and donations. "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. And how will you track participation? 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. .

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

And as we read through the evals, we lost track of how many people gave Sue Anne Reed props for her deeply personal Ignite talk. we accepted sessions with the clause that they collaborate. So, we''re sharing these with both/all angles together. You: The Community The community will never NOT be #1. Talk about generosity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

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. Many people use Google Docs for this, though I find the interface a bit confusing. How will I keep track of them all?" Google Apps.

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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?

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