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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

When you receive an online gift, you should send the donor a receipt via email. I am not sure what’s worse with this one, the receipt number in the subject line, the “no-reply” email or the fact that the nonprofit did not even bother to identify themselves in the email. Who is the email from? But it’s not.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. As a writer, I spend a bunch of my time just trying to get a hold of people.

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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones

Tech Soup

They’re especially convenient for email. It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. Email a document. One of the great things about smartphones is that they are so easy to carry around.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. As a result, he finds that people in NGOs in the region are beginning to use cloud computing services like Google Docs and Hotmail , but are often not aware that those applications they are using are in the cloud, or what exactly cloud computing is.

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Why Google Might Be the Answer to Your Problems

NonProfit Hub

From our calendars, to our email accounts, to important documents and spreadsheets, Google is our best friend. That means you can access any of your files anywhere, whether you’re on your work computer, phone, laptop or tablet—as long as you have your login info and an internet connection, you’re set. And why wouldn’t it be?

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

You may find, “Wow, we’ve got three tools that could send email.” Maybe we want to, you know, tighten it down and just use one email tool. Everybody needs an email tool. ” I’m a cat person, so I get cat pictures in my donation forms and in my email messages. Everybody needs a database.