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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study

Tech Soup

IT staff set up an automatic backup of each employee's Outlook file to their server every night, to ensure that nothing was lost. Since each file was quite large, a lot of space was required to store it all. 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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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

In particular, Homer cites the pitfalls of multitasking, which as studies have shown can detract from our efforts to engage fully. The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training.

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Get more done in a day (and boost your fundraising productivity!) with these 12 smart hacks

Get Fully Funded

The best way to find the time leaks is with a time study. Personally, I tend to resist doing a time study, and the way I get myself to do it is to imagine that I’m being paid for every minute I spend working. My time study has helped me be more purposeful about how I spend my working time and stop doing things that aren’t productive.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unfortunately, there's a 10 MB limit if you're uploading a PowerPoint file and you can reach that pretty quickly if you are presenting with visuals. Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English.

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

My job was to keep everything up and running: the network, file servers, computers, printers, email systems, etc. Most of the staff were used to Gmail and familiar with email, calendar, and docs services. Google services are intuitive to use and trainings, demos, and tutorials were available on our intranet.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones. Morgan Scully suggested that a lot could be learned from studying cloud culture.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

You want to make a note of this in your file, on your calendar, some kind of system that you have. This is Giving Docs, which the ACLU is using to let people just come on here and click and leave their legacy in very simple steps. And they can give you a ballpark of what that will be as well. There are new services now.

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