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How Purchase Cards Simplify Nonprofit Accounting

sgEngage

Adding Security with Purchase Cards Many business professionals rely on Google Docs or Excel for their purchasing and expense tracking. They are easy to track because there’s no waiting around for mailed checks to clear. These may be your tried-and-true business office tools as well, but how protected is that information?

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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll do another few posts for other areas, like development, system maintenance, personal web presence, and writing. (If I use Canned Responses to provide HTML signatures when needed, and also forward all of my mail to gmail, then send out mail as other identities. (I’ve

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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. Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again.

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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study

Tech Soup

Are you frustrated with your current email system, or find it’s costing too much to maintain? Switching to a new system is always a big step, so I got in touch with the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) who have been using Google Apps for three years. Eventually it became clear that a new solution was needed.

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A Month with the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. Also, gSyncIt also brought my Google Docs into my Outlook Notes, which wasn't good. That's not ideal -- it doesn't respect the manual mail sync frequency I had set up.

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How Game On Cancer Cracked the Code on Engaging Physicians and Cancer Survivors

Connection Cafe

So, h ow do the local and regional health systems get in front of these patients (and physicians) to compete for their time, talent , and treasures without the same resources as our competitors ? . We started with a nomination packet for each doc that included a personalized “MVP Trading Card.” First Quarter .

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