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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

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. Our system is like the “roach motel” of data; the data goes in, but never comes out again.

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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. are, your security isn't bulletproof, you don't have 100% systems. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). They're just plain expenses.

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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. And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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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. Remote/Hybrid Meeting Buddy System. 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.