Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Give them a question to explore together, and encourage the dialogue. Questions and polling. Thoughtful, simple, directed questions can be a powerful engagement mechanism. Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Monitor accordingly.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

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. So with some background, I’ve got some questions.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Now an entire team can enjoy continuous synchronization of a folder (and sub-folders) for a project. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

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. Security is a question in the cloud. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics. The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. Is anyone dominating the conversation?

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