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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). The formatting is great.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. Doc Searls has some commentary about the Facebook/google search policy, " Why Facebook Should Be Called Buttbook " Nonprofits can use groups).

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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. By the time we all arrived at the event, Heidi had created a separate collaborative note-taking doc for each session, and one that served as a table of contents. right here.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. It’s easy and cheap, accessible from anywhere, and will help you define your work. (3)

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

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. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet. You can do it physically at an in-person event like a conference.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. find these, we use a combination of SlideShare, Google Docs, and tagging to keep things connected [.] I've been trying to think of ways to integrate. content creation into work and events already happening.

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