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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones

Tech Soup

It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. It is also well-integrated and can store documents in the cloud to several services including Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote, Huddle, and several others.

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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

NTEN

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. Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Now an entire team can enjoy continuous synchronization of a folder (and sub-folders) for a project.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting?

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

Be prepared to spend some time negotiating terms (use Track Changes in Word for this purpose). get a good time tracking system. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. I also have a remote connection to my home (business) laptop available at all times.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. They all know they’re being tracked. So system does X. We need it to do Y. ” . .”

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks. This ability to organize content segments, like moving post-its around on a table, makes wikis more useful than other collaborative document creation tools like Google Docs. Otherwise, people won't contribute. When is a wiki the best tool for the job?

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