Interesting sites I’m looking at (weekly)
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 17, 2011
Google+ Tips and Tricks – Google Docs. tags: google+ google tips toblog. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
[WEBINAR] Fundraising Appeal Throwdown
CauseVox
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
It can be in a google doc or on a live campaign site. Save your seat today for the free webinar. Want to get your fundraising appeal reviewed live? Email your written appeal to me at candace@causevox.com. Can’t make it live? Register anyway and you’ll receive the recording!
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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 16, 2019
Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Multiple Staging Sites – you can make a copy of your WordPress website to test new plugins before adding them to a live site.
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2 Fiscal Benefits Of Cloud Computing For Nonprofits
TechImpact
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Some general programs often taken for granted by contemporary nonprofit employees include Office 365, Google Docs, email software, CRM systems, and database management software, all of which can be accessed in the cloud depending on the service provider. Your nonprofit may be employing cloud computing without even knowing it.
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Time is Money: Solutions for Monitoring Problems With Your Website
Byte Technology
MAY 31, 2016
Repeat visitors to your site, perhaps concluding that you’ve intentionally shut it down for whatever reason, quickly let your page slip off their radar, and you find yourself incurring lost revenues and support that can be fatal to an e-business or non-profit organization. Happily, there are some easy and effective answers.
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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing
TechImpact
DECEMBER 19, 2013
Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). Because hosting is being taken care of off-site, and the provider is generally taking care of all the installations, upgrades and anything else your system needs, there will be far less on your end that needs repairs.
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4 Resources to Transform Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy
NonProfit Hub
JULY 17, 2017
There are templates for specific social media sites — such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest — as well as a general template. They have a basic template that allows you to upload an image, add some text and choose which social media sites you want the post to appear on and when. Google Docs. WordPress Themes.
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Vote for the Winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards!
NTEN
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Visit the contest site today and cast your vote! We received a wide array of funny, moving and informative videos that embraced strong storytelling to communicate important messages. It was a difficult task, but the DoGooder Team have chosen the finalists- and now it’s up to the public to choose the winners! Individuals can vote once per day.
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75 Case Study: Use Google's Free Tools to Animate Your Data
NTEN
MAY 11, 2011
The site makes it easy to find, describe, and share wide-ranging facts – millions of data points in all - about how kids in California are faring. With a robust data website like ours, why, then, would we want to make use of Google's data offerings, as we did when we looked at the rise in autism diagnoses ?
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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 24, 2011
A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.
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Reviewing Tweetnotes from The Extraordinaries
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 23, 2010
You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session. Between SXSWi and 10NTC, I’ve now used it a handful of times and do really like it.
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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide
Whole Whale
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The RFP will outline the purpose of your website; the need, timing, and overview of the project, site features, and other requirements for applicants. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.
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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter
NetWits
JUNE 6, 2011
Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. Benefits of Website Logins.
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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
Stacey and her team thought JustCoz could be a good way to get people involved and start generating buzz before the site actually went live, and then maintain some messaging throughout the campaign. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. You can't do that when you're mass-tweeting.
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Webinar Recording: Google Apps 101
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Please visit the site to view this media). 615 KB DOC). The recording is about 45 minutes and is a great introduction to Google Apps. Watch the recording below and check out the slides. Additional Resources. Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study. Worksheet: Is Google Apps Right for Me? Technology Planning Resources.
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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 3: Content Strategy
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 27, 2013
We also might develop page description diagrams to define and prioritize content for key pages of the site. Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc. Editorial Calendar – spreadsheet or Word doc. Stay tuned! Other Posts in this Series. Introduction. Stakeholder Discovery.
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36 Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care
Tech Soup
MAY 26, 2014
Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. The ProjectVRM site , a wiki, is a bit daunting to the VRM novice. VRM operates on the customer or individual's side. Even so, something about VRM still doesn't click for me.
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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits
Whole Whale
OCTOBER 13, 2020
That means custom fundraising pages, embeddable donation forms for your own site, text-to-donate functionality (with live display for sharing your progress bar at live events), live event ticketing, and peer-to-peer options. Platform Fee: 3% (first $100k); 2% ($100k to $1m); 1% (greater than $1m) Transaction Fee: 2.9%
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Email in the Cloud: A Google Apps Case Study
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Google Apps is a cloud system that can manage your organization's email, calendar, documents and sites. Since Google Mail is in the cloud, it takes away the need for an on-site backup and makes it easy for staff to access their email no matter where they are. Were there any security concerns with moving to the cloud?
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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 1, 2024
GoFundMe or other crowdfunding sites. You can set up a GoFundMe campaign, but you’ll still need to drive traffic to that site to get people to give. You may have a few ideas of where to start raising money, and if they include any of these, you may want to think again. I think I’ll find a good one online!”
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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Benefit from the Cloud
Tech Soup
JUNE 3, 2016
Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey.
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11NTC Round-Up: Your Posts, Highlights, and Take-aways
NTEN
MARCH 28, 2011
Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site. Session Materials If you attended the conference, visit myNTC for individual session pages, links, notes, and more.
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Free Tools for Keeping Website Trackers at Bay
Tech Soup
JULY 7, 2014
" Doc Searls, the author of "The Intention Economy" and the current lead of ProjectVRM at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, delivered the keynote at the event. When you open a new tab in Chrome, you'll see a page with your most frequently visited sites (like the vanilla version of Chrome) and an odometer.
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Cool App Roundup: Office Apps for Smartphones
Tech Soup
JANUARY 17, 2012
It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. View help files (launches web browser to help site). Create a new document (Word and Excel only). Duplicate an existing document. Email a document. Delete a document.
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The iPad as an Honest to Goodness Business Tool: 4 Apps You Need
NTEN
DECEMBER 28, 2010
There are a few things that iPad isn't so great at, including printing stuff (though that's getting better) and accessing any site (like Quickbooks Online) that uses.NET. LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it, opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database.
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The iPad as an Honest to Goodness Business Tool: 4 Apps You Need
NTEN
DECEMBER 28, 2010
There are a few things iPad isn't so great at (yet), including printing stuff (though that's getting better) and accessing any site (like Quickbooks Online) that uses.NET. LogMeIn allows me to log into my computer back at the office and control it -- opening apps, printing docs, running searches in our database, haunting office-mates.
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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap
Tech Soup
MAY 9, 2012
A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. Grasty decided to help other video creators with Stroome , a collaborative video editing site. The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration. Building a Team.
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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 1, 2013
” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Encourage brainstorming. Develop shared language.
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Telework Cool Tools: SlideRocket
Tech Soup
JULY 2, 2012
You can upload an existing PowerPoint or Google Docs presentation, and it’s instantly online and ready for folks to view. Presentations are stored online on SlideRocket's site; they can be modified by anyone who is on the same SlideRocket account. Also, online presentations allow people to attend an event at a later date.
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52 #NTCFail: When Things Don't Go as Planned (or Your Plan Stinks)
NTEN
APRIL 21, 2012
Next year, we need a system where you can view your badge, make edits, and then get it printed right there on site. Anna did a great job trying to cut across those silos, holding weekly project meetings, pulling staff together for smaller consultations, using collaborative docs and projects plans, etc. NTCFail 3: Day of Service.
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Platforms break open!
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 15, 2007
October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. It would be nice if the announcement and the delivery weren’t so far apart (we waited a long time for the Kintera docs after the NTEN call – they should have either postponed the call, or gotten the docs done sooner.)
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The Ideal Year-End Fundraising Campaign Timeline
CauseVox
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Spreadsheets and shared files (such as on Google Docs or Dropbox) are phenomenal ways to keep everyone on the same page. CauseVox makes it easy for you to set up and launch a digital fundraising campaign site that helps you raise more with less effort.
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Crazy for the Tools
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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Empowering Your Board to Fundraise: Treating Your Board Members as Major Donors
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Do you have an intranet site for Board members to access information? Use Google docs to share information and materials. Here are some ideas to engage your Board and create a relationship that works: What is their communication preference? In person, email, fax, mail, Twitter?
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Strategies for Powering Learning Through CRM Go-Live and Beyond
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Travel to all the office sites where people are most comfortable. Set up regular audits of training docs and business processes. It’s been a long journey, but you have been live on the new system for a while and users are adjusting to the changes and learning what new opportunities it affords them. Meet your people where they are.
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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide
Forum One
MAY 5, 2010
Service providers should conduct training on free tools, such as Google Docs, that are more widely available for those on tight budgets. Here are some additional volunteer service web sites I tracked down after our discussion. Here, you can find opportunities for volunteering your web or technology expertise: Do Something.org.
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Tidbits
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Everyone (including them) gets better data. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ.
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100 My Treo Can Find A New Life on the Frontlines of Global Health, But What Should I Replace It With?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 17, 2009
Ability to access my google docs, calendar, and gmail - not only read, but edit. Ability to read/respond on social sites - FB, FF, Twitter, etc. I should be asking - What SmartPhone will best support my mobile work flow and communications needs? Browse web. Decent Phone. Ability to type well. Entertain me when I'm bored in airports.
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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. Fees or limitations: Drupal is free, but it is considered a more complex CMS, meaning your nonprofit would likely benefit from working with an experienced designer to make your site look and work great. The same caveats regarding domain and hosting fees also apply.
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86 NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2008
Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API.
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The Social Sector Cloud
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.
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65 With Liberty, and Information, For All?
NTEN
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Obviously, there's not a lot on the site yet. On the site, you can already read the bill, see the big breakdowns of how the money is being spent , and explore the projected timeline for implementation and impact. Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime.
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36 The Social Sector Cloud
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser.
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