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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. We were once asked to evaluate new technology options for a client. But we explained that we can’t evaluate tech options like a new CRM without first knowing what they needed to accomplish with the technology.

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Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

I was lucky enough to attend NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit on Monday, August 29. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. The presenters stressed that the cloud is changing constantly, so you can't just evaluate cloud solutions once.

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Nature vs. Nuture, or Why You Should Follow Your Gut on the Social Web

NTEN

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. It has its own Google Doc.) On a daily basis we listen, we connect, we share, and we evaluate -- all steps in a solid social media plan. It's necessary to have a place to document and track the evaluation of our experiments.

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#NTCFail: When Things Don't Go as Planned (or Your Plan Stinks)

NTEN

One of the most common complaints on session evaluations is that the session was to basic or too complicated, or that they came prepared for a lecture, but got a discussion. NTEN has grown a lot in the last couple of years, and for the first time, we had different departments working on different aspects of the conference.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson.

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