Judi Sohn

JULY 21, 2013

Why aren’t you just using Google Docs?” ” Yes, some of what we’re doing in Smartsheet could be done in Google Docs. It’s an Excel/Google Doc-like online app that generates spreadsheets that are more dynamic than just rows & columns. Right now we have 389 active sheets in our Team account.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With a robust feature set, Apsona provides a wealth of productivity features for nonprofit organizations ranging from cross object filtering and multi-step reporting to extensive data management and mail merge tools. Apsona also offers unrivaled ease of data uploading, automatically importing and configuring custom objects into Salesforce.

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Vermont Nonprofit Doc Application 101

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Does your organization collect data. spreadsheets, Googe Docs, email services, online channels, and more? How can you bring all of that data together in one place to serve your. of data they gather. Event data webinars SAP tsevent business intelligence managing data City Year' organization's needs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Shockingly, according to a Software Advice research report, 52 percent of nonprofits are still using Excel and Google Docs to run their development operations. With Giveffect, for example, the data collected is automatically added to a volunteer’s profile so that it is easily accessible by your team members.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 23, 2021

Data should be the driving force behind your nonprofit’s strategy. Requiring volunteers to create a profile as part of the registration process can help your nonprofit organize your data and identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities within your volunteer pool. Create Volunteer Profiles.

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sgEngage

JUNE 14, 2022

She has expertise in academic record management and reporting, student data privacy, implementing technology solutions, designing and delivering training, and developing policies and procedures. This is an excellent event for administrators and data lovers alike. Shop Talk: Blackbaud Student Information System.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 3, 2020

Giving your staff the ability to access key systems and data when they’re outside of the office is critically important to working efficiently. Document sharing and collaborating tools, such as Google docs. Here are three tips for preparing your association for virtual work: 1. Think “mobile” and “cloud-based” for key systems.

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Virtual Associations Practice Tips 78

TechImpact

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). Image courtesy of entech. Chances are good your organization is already using some form of cloud computing without realizing it. Gmail, Yahoo! But what is cloud computing? Convenience factor.

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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. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again. Who’s replying?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 23, 2009

This could happen to any nonprofit or company storing data this way. Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords? Does anyone think to disable those employees' access to docs in the cloud? As we've seen over and over, it's amazingly easy to guess or steal passwords.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

Resources Deluxe – their blog, ebooks, help docs, and design trends are seriously useful and well designed resources that any nonprofit marketing team should check out. . Auto Backups and Updates – your site’s database, files, and data are automatically saved every night and super easy to restore your site if something goes wrong.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again. We cannot interface with other desired applications. Measuring and forecasting.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 25, 2010

For Google Apps administrators, the offerings in the Google Apps Marketplace seems to be a lot of 3rd party tools that pull in gApps data (Docs, Calendar, etc.) to make it easier to work within the 3rd party tool's own environment. they stare blankly. Google Apps can be incredibly intuitive and maddening at the same time.

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Google Management Doc Calendar 113

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. Although it may seem like this is an easier way to manage data, it comes at the cost of the following drawbacks: Security: What happens if your computer is stolen and someone gains access to all of that donor data?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Get a legal pad and a pen or pull up a Google Doc or a Word Doc. One more data point. It’s too easy to drop parts of your imaginary plan, shift others, and back off your goals because you don’t feel like following through. And start writing. How much money do you need to raise? What strategies do you have in mind?

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Fundraising Money Raise Goal 124

Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. ' and a whole bunch of other data on the end. Force.com Utility Belt - This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation.it's all there. I'm a developer wannabe at best.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

transaction Setup Fee: $0 Commitment: None Integration: Salesforce, MailChimp, Eventbrite, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Google Docs, HubSpot, Insightly, Stripe. Properly is the key word here, as customizing Salesforce, despite the 10 free seats offered still costs dev time and ongoing management of your data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). This template, like the others, is available at that link as a public google doc that you can save and reuse.

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Metrics Community Map Template 219

Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2014

Are your favorite websites collecting personal data from you? It seeks to empower its members to safely share private data "over trusted peer-to-peer connections between personal and business clouds." Emmett Global's CEO, Kenneth Lefkowitz, presented on the cloud for nonprofits and data for good. Using Web Pal.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

It also keeps you organized by reducing data redundancy, tracking donor activity, and providing automatic reports. Kindful CRM Integration: Yes, you can integrate your Join It membership data with Kindful. Hidden fees or limitations: It’s genuinely free, but you limit yourself to simple data collection. Google Workspace.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

This is the topic that covers whether or not it's risky for you to put your data on someone else's website that you don't have any direct control over. This week we're featuring an article by TechSoup Global's expert in data security, Richard Collins. Richard's article is entitled Security in the Cloud.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. Also, gSyncIt also brought my Google Docs into my Outlook Notes, which wasn't good. I can listen to music while syncing data, browsing the web, or downloading an app.

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gMail Flash Music Calendar 112

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Now they have no need for local applications or data. They can take them anywhere they need, access all their applications and data, never worry about malware, backups, disaster recovery, etc. I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. QuickBooks can be replaced with QuickBooks Online. Word processing?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

In a larger scope, individuals who work at nonprofits use systems that capture data and information about them. Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. VRM tools, on the other hand, work on the side of the individual donor.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc. Editorial Calendar – spreadsheet or Word doc.

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Design Process Content Web 36

Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. ’ and a whole bunch of other data on the end. Force.com Utility Belt – This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation…it’s all there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey.

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Benefit Doc Comparison Africa 36

NetWits

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

It can be great to stand back, and look at basics such as these, as we all have a tendency to get buried in our data and to lose our way from time to time. Consider using a free online tool such as Google Docs and/or Google Calendar to plan when emails/communications will be sent. How can you use the information?

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Database Doc Newsletter Australia 109

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Or enough data. My point here is this: Make plans based on data, not emotion. 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. Or the search for the perfect template. But you know what?

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2009

This could happen to any nonprofit or company storing data this way. Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords? Does anyone think to disable those employees' access to docs in the cloud? As we've seen over and over, it's amazingly easy to guess or steal passwords.

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Twitter Doc Headline Files 43

NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Epic Change used four planning tools, but much of the work was really in just two: a private Facebook group and Google Docs. Some of what they used Google Docs for included: A new form for supporters to sign up for various Missions.

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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building. Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. Open it up, let anyone bang on test data to try things out, and you never know what might happen. I have a few comments. He’s right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Disadvantages to cloud computing Depending on the vendor and the application, you are dependent on them to keep the application up and your data intact. Your data is not directly in your hands, but in the hands of a third party. If the provider goes belly up with your data, you’re toast. Make sure access is secure.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Having a reliable backup of their emails was extremely important, and in the cloud the risk of losing their data is much lower than when it was on their server. Combined with the knowledge that their data wasn't very sensitive, this made the cloud the better choice from a security perspective. What issues has OCASI run into?

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Case Study Google email Studies 48

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Currently in beta, TwitSprout also allows you to easily convert your Twitter data into a PDF-format for easy sharing with others. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org.

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