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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) It does have a drawing program, an XML editor, as well as a math equation editor, in addition to the standard word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool and database. It’s pretty darned close, but even I have to admit that Excel is darned hard to beat.

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Crazy for the Tools

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Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Why Upgrade to Office 2013? 4 Compelling Features You'll Want to Know

Tech Soup

People-OnTheGo will be presenting a complimentary webinar, Getting Started with Office 2013 and 365 , on Thursday, April 4 at noon Pacific time. variety of new rich media options to make your documents, presentations, and other files more interactive and engaging. PDF to Word Doc Capabilities. For example in.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

In today’s world of dispersed meetings, web conferencing allows presenters and participants to securely engage with one another through real-time video. With the ability to present slides, share links and desktops, conduct polls, and create and store meeting notes, virtual meetings can be more productive than meetings in person.

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Homer’s first recommendation to encourage collaboration is to eliminate distractions by being mindful of how technology can get in the way, and to try to be present. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. What file-sharing tools do you use? Citrix Online products including GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar.