Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful. We also created and provided shortened URLs for the two links we wanted everyone to use (the link to the Google Doc where people were registering their participation: [link] and the link to Beth’s birthday wish blog post: [link] ). Some tweeted.

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Byte Technology

MAY 31, 2016

Consider this scenario: your website experiences an outage, but because you don’t monitor it on a regular basis it may be days or weeks before you notice. Using a combination of their free services—Google Spreadsheets, Google Docs and Google Scripts—you can actually construct your own uptime monitoring page to track any number of websites.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2011

We’ve received a lot of questions in person and over email about how Square works, so we thought we’d share our experience. Reconciling the transactions could be easier, but you can download the data from your online Square sales record into an Excel doc. Honestly, I’m not sure how the actual mechanics work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock. You know why I started to twitter.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

In this peer-led discussion, we’ll share our experiences of online community building and build lists of best practices around recruiting new members and retaining them, increasing participation and moderating your community. Takeaways: 1. Examples of successful online community engagement. We need you!

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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.) They may try and mimic the Google interface, but it's really a separate experience linked via an OpenID login. Same with Box.net, SurveyMonkey and many others.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Except when it isn’t!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Beware that Canva can be a real time suck.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

It's relatively easy for nonprofits to create these charts: Just upload your own data into Google Docs – the data can be on any topic of interest to your organization – build your animation, then grab the code to put on your site/blog.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. While this does the job for covering basic needs, read on for more if you’re looking for ultra-customized experiences such as a tailor-made thank-you message or bespoke branding. Online revenue is up for nonprofits. Give Lively.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Seema wrote it (original post here ) in response to her experience last week at MuseumCamp. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. please add yours to our open google doc. Intense would be a useful descriptor.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

You can easily do this by creating an Excel document or Google doc to organize your content and identify what will go to which segment of your audience, and at what time. If you have large images that take too long to load, or designs that aren’t mobile friendly, you’ll be creating a bad experience and setting yourself up to fail.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your plan should also include what you’ll do when you’re NOT asking for money like donor communications, stewardship, and warm touches — all designed to give the donor a GREAT experience. When you come to nonprofit leadership with no fundraising experience it makes planning tough. You started yours to make a difference.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. You want people focused on their strategic conversation not struggling to make the tool work.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc. Editorial Calendar – spreadsheet or Word doc. Interactive Web Design communication design discovery interactive Non-Profit nonprofit Nonprofit web design nonprofit website nonprofits user experience user research web design website'

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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. Calendar: Google Calendar Sync. Notes: Evernote. I finally got sick of calling their tech support.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

Don’t worry about providing legal language or sample docs because your donors already have their own attorney who will take care of all the verbiage and paperwork. Find a way to tag people in your database or make a list somewhere – just find a way to track them so you can be sure to give them a stellar experience.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. DEBBIE: From our experience, industry benchmarking can be tricky. We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents. Many people like using them. GARY: Ditto.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

The first time you open a Chromebook, it's a disorienting experience. I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. For many people, being able to use Google Docs offline would make a huge difference in the viability of Chromebook. That's an exciting prospect for any nonprofit, but is it really feasible?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Qgiv Platform overview: Qgiv ’s fundraising platform was designed with the donor experience in mind.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I talked with Doug Bastien, OCASI's Online Capacity Development Facilitator, and Dave Montague, IT Manager, to find out what prompted them to switch to Google Apps and what their experience has been. For staff who like doing other work in the cloud, having access to Google Calendar, Docs and Sites is great as well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Google Drive Mobile is a free app for viewing and editing Google Docs on an Android phone or tablet. Google Drive for iOS is a free app that allows you to view and edit Google Doc office documents on iPhones and iPads. Do you have some experience teleworking, telecommuting, digital nomading or whatever you want to call it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world. We wrote a sweetness in front of an office for a friend grieving the death of his child, in front of our doc's office saying thanks for being such a great healer, and loud praise for the librarians at the library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Use virtual tools to manage campaign internally (Yammer, Google Docs, Listening Dashboards, Private Facebook Groups, etc). Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think. Develop shared language. Cross disciplinary teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In my experience, the more diverse group you can get together to have this conversation and work through this planning together, the more complete a picture you can draw of your community. 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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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It needs to be warm, sincere, and prompt so that it closes the loop on the gift and makes the donor feel great about their giving experience. One in five Whitfield children experiences food insecurity at least once a month. The Cycle of Giving Your receipt/thank you has a job to do. The nonprofit receives the gift.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use Google docs to share information and materials. She has more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and nonprofit consulting and serves as a strategic consultant to Ketchum and Pursuant Agency clients. Here are some ideas to engage your Board and create a relationship that works: What is their communication preference?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2015

To collect and organize data, the team members used Google docs and Google forms. Share your tips and experience with us in the comments. One of the most difficult tasks was getting these agencies and organizations to actually call back! Technology and Volunteers Make It Happen. Connect with your local library. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. Borman's experience has taught her that team building is important to collaborative storytelling. Building a Team. If you need to look outside of your organization for collaborators, look to your network.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

If/when you experience any post go-live blues, seeing how much you’ve accomplished since starting the project can be just the positive motivation needed. . Set up regular audits of training docs and business processes. Track record. Track wins and how far you’ve come.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2020

The shared google doc of closures blew up around Thursday afternoon, and in looking at it, I thought, maybe for the first time in my career, we are saving lives. Despite being part of many museum committees and shared experiences, I never felt as much like a global field as last week. The choice to close wasn’t easy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2020

We started with a nomination packet for each doc that included a personalized “MVP Trading Card.” They each had a goal of raising $10,000. . The physicians were nominated by leadership at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute and the Detroit Lions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Keep this number on your radar all year long so you can tweak your activities in real time to give donors a better experience. A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. If 100 people gave you money last year, can you convince 60 to give you money again this year? But you know what?

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