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Are You Ready to DIY Office 365?

Tech Soup

Most nonprofit organizations can get free access to hosted email (Exchange), files (SharePoint & OneDrive), and instant messaging (Lync) in the cloud from Microsoft. Shared Files (SharePoint Online). Do you have a lot of time to explore SharePoint? SharePoint does not work like a network share.

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The Five Best Tools For Quick And Effective Project Management

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Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Share status, links, and files in a microblogging client. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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Microsoft Lync 2013 Overview

Tech Soup

Lync also integrates with Microsoft Exchange , Office 2013 , and SharePoint , and can incorporate an entire organizational phone system. Lync 2013 is essentially enterprise software, which means that it is designed for larger organizations or ones with a professional IT staff or consultants able to set it up. or remote workers.

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Meet the Experts: Interview with TechImpact’s Linda Widdop

Tech Soup

Without further ado, check out my interview with this consulting expert. TechSoup : Could you tell us a bit about your background - how long you've been with Tech Impact, what work you do, and what you enjoy most about providing tech consulting to nonprofits? Linda is one of the great ones in nonprofit technology. was growing.

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Office 365, SharePoint, and Disruption

Tech Soup

First, if you have not been exposed to Microsoft’s Office 365 product or to their SharePoint solution, let me take just a moment to provide some background. What Are Office 365 and SharePoint? This includes email, shared calendaring, the Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote), file sharing, and web conferencing.

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It's Not Data if You Can't Use It: Case Studies from Modernizing Nonprofit Systems

NTEN

In each organization, we completed a project that changed the way the nonprofits did their work through the implementation of client tracking capability, using Salesforce.com for the database and Sharepoint for forms management. Each project had similar characteristics in terms of its activities and each was completed within 4-6 months.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

something like a consulting company or creative manager." Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re re working with???something for NGOs there.

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