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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones

Tech Soup

Too bad it’s so hard to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files on them – or is it? All of them view office documents including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on various types of smartphones, but to varying degrees of effectiveness. You can view and edit Word and Excel files but just view PowerPoint files.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Cloud

Tech Soup

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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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Crazy for the Tools

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I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Why Google Might Be the Answer to Your Problems

NonProfit Hub

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. Pretty much every Google Drive platform (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar) allows you to work on documents simultaneously with your coworkers.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

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Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step. Didn't happen.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step. Didn't happen.

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