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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.). Time spent manually entering or importing or synchronizing or deduping data that could be collected through integrated systems. This is an area of new or expanded emphasis for us.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use virtual tools to manage campaign internally (Yammer, Google Docs, Listening Dashboards, Private Facebook Groups, etc). Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think. Develop shared language. Cross disciplinary teams.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

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

Tech Soup

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. Platforms as a service: you rent server space, bandwidth, and the tools to help you build or customize web-based applications ( Salesforce , for example).

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5 Tips To Create a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Hybrid Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You and your team must become fluent at both synchronous and asynchronous work styles. For example, working as a team on a large report using a tool such as Google Docs allows each person to work on it at different times. You may be in-person one day, virtual the next day.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.