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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again. Monitor accordingly.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). and the third leg of people – trained, competent, available staff. One of my maxims is that a database doesn’t raise money — people raise money. Stewarding current donors.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

I'm not going to use anything that requires Windows and I favor things that work in any browser and sit in the cloud, are easy to get other people, including less technical working with and collaborating on. Now an entire team can enjoy continuous synchronization of a folder (and sub-folders) for a project. OK, enough preliminaries.

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Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

" Part of the problem, I think, is that the term "cloud" is used in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. Offline synchronization capabilities aren't very good yet.

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5 Tips To Create a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Hybrid Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace model is a blend of people working in different locations or a mix of people working in-person at the office and others working remotely from home or other locations. You and your team must become fluent at both synchronous and asynchronous work styles. The model is not new.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. According to FutureForum , this isn’t always the case for people of color. In addition, hybrid meetings also have unique power imbalances based on how people are connecting to the meeting: individually/remotely or as a group face-to-face in a conference room.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. at 11:17 am I’m interested to know which combinations of CMS/CRM are working best for people. 13 Eoin 06.25.09