Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

You've heard about some time-saving free Google Docs templates that can save time for non-profits creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations – but did you know Microsoft.com has a bundle of free Office Suite templates that are designed especially for non-profits? read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 11, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office collaboration Microsoft online storage project management PowerPoint application.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

Flickr Photo: peppy sis Most people probably wouldn't put Earth Day and technology together, but you and I know that's just silly. This fantastic doc from MIT will walk you through your office to help you pinpoint places where you can do more to help Mother Earth. The first step is to admit you have a problem, right? Print green.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. nptech Click To Tweet Use SNORKL to create clear RFPs and connect to great nonprofit vendors that won’t rip you off. What is your firm’s history with our cause and technology stack?

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 27, 2009

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Web 2.0 read more ). read more ). accountability Non-profit Communications.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 12, 2009

There are many ways to publish any RSS feed on your own website — Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, and Widgetbox, for example, among a host of other methods including a Google Docs trick — but lately I’ve been using a free service called Feed Informer, for several reasons.( Tags: RSS Widgets Non-profit technology Web 2.0 read more ).

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too! Artez Interactive For Fun Did you miss Rob Cottingham's cartoon coverage of the conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Tags: 10NTC Lisa Colton NPTech Communications. I’m still not sure why.

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2012

Chief Technology Officer. That may sound like a big deal but organizations and individuals with Google accounts could do that already using Google Docs. TJ Rainsford. Google Drive is still brand new and not without limitations, but its capabilities are pretty hard to ignore. So does Google Drive really matter?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech civicrm nptech opensource. I also learned about CiviCase, which is actually present in 2.2. I saw the example of it used for the Physician Health Program in Canada.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Team meetings The entire social media team participates in bi-weekly telephone calls to address "big picture" issues related to NYCEAC's social media strategy, knowledge-sharing, and training; the minutes are captured in an ongoing social media team meetings Google doc for the entire social media team to access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

Google docs will take a good long time to make it to the point where the functionality begins to match either MS Office or OOo/LO, so OOo/LO is a very good alternative to MS Office if you don’t need MS Access, and have folks able and willing to make a small adjustment to use this tool.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

Check out all the awesome resources, opportunities, and summer learning programs on the docket for this summer: Superstar member Heidi Massey created this handy Google Doc full of free/low cost tech resources for nonprofits. We're looking for a project that fuels social change through technology. The best part about it?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). The dynamics of innovation and technology mean that the next generation of charity applications are being built in the cloud. Technology, however, is never enough. Lower Costs.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). The dynamics of innovation and technology mean that the next generation of charity applications are being built in the cloud. Technology, however, is never enough. Lower Costs.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2011

Let’s say someone wants to buy a t-shirt and a copy of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Reconciling the transactions could be easier, but you can download the data from your online Square sales record into an Excel doc. You tap on the photos of the t-shirt and the book to add them to the sales slip.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog. Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. because the interactive technology implied by the term has become so much the norm.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 In the Salesforce world, those charity technology mission components are not driving forces. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 11, 2006

And the docs can be uploaded from, or downloaded to, your desktop. Tags: google , web2.0 , nptech Most important, I think, is its collaboration model that let's you pick which individual users can share each document, creating a level of flexible security difficult to implement on your Windows LAN.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I'm struck by a disconnect between the advantages of the new web technologies and the business goals our users are striving to meet on the network. Why can't you just send her a doc like you did last week?" tags: nptech , web2.0 As I've been reading the explosion of postings all over the net dedicated to "Web2.0" I've tried.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2012

Even though many of us are entrenched in the intersection between our work and technology, we often struggle with finding ways to make our lives simpler. Many of us in the nonprofit space know how much effort goes into organizing large, annual events.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Flickr photo: Dom de Oliveira If you've ever implemented a technology project at a nonprofit, you know it's true: technology is 90% psychology. Success rarely hinges on the hardware and the software; technology hinges on the humans involved. These days, technology has forced its way into every single aspect of our organizations.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

They''ve had great success in particular with "mini-Ignite" sessions, where the community can to present in Ignite -style around a topic (fundraising, technology, etc.). They created a Google doc with information regarding event promotion, logisitcs, and planning as a resource for speakers. PDX organizers.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 29, 2011

Is your organization using Google for Nonprofits? On March 16, 2011, Google launched their latest version of this program which offers several new benefits: Instead of applying to each Google product individually, you can now sign up through a one-stop shop application process. read more ).

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Try out new technologies on your own when you get a chance.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

Google Docs will win out for collaborative document capability every time,” he said. Wolber’s experience highlighted that it often takes time and effort to get people to use new technologies. Good technology gets out of the way,” he said. “To It’s not real time, but you can use it that way.”

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. With only 7 people working for them on a daily basis in Jerusalem, along with 1 in Tel Aviv and 3 in NY, they rely on technology to do the rest of the work. PT used technology from day one, says Simi Hinden, the director of the online community. Online Collaboration. We remain inspired by them.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Apparently, technology isn't always the answer. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. " -- only it's helpful. And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes. up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity. Primary Pad.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2010

Primary Pad is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Apparently, technology isn't always the answer. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. " -- only it's helpful. And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Annika Billqvist, Office and Technology Manager, HandsOn Bay Area When I started at HandsOn Bay Area in 2006, the organization didn’t have a long-term technology plan in place and used many different systems for communication, collaboration, and data storage. In 2009, we finalized a technology plan.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

If you're running any kind of organization, a suite of office software is essential — at the very least, you need a fairly good word-processing program, a spreadsheet application, and some sort of presentation software. read more )

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

When we first rolled out Google Apps in early 2008 I had visions of a Microsoft Word burning party as everyone embraced Google Docs. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Judi has always been a technology enthusiast, having served as editor of Web Worker Daily until early last year.

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