Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

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. And when you install a new system (software, hardware, policies & procedures, training, etc.)

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Could your organization hire and train your replacement within two weeks? Onboarding and Training | 4-6 Weeks. If You Can’t Train In-Person, Document! In times of nonprofit leadership transition and onboarding, the in-person training can often be rushed or stressful. Don’t Run for the Exit. Probably not. Best of all?

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 25, 2010

For Google Apps administrators, the offerings in the Google Apps Marketplace seems to be a lot of 3rd party tools that pull in gApps data (Docs, Calendar, etc.) to make it easier to work within the 3rd party tool's own environment. they stare blankly. Google Apps can be incredibly intuitive and maddening at the same time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

Expert WordPress Support – trained WordPress professionals can help with problems or questions about your website 24/7. Resources Deluxe – their blog, ebooks, help docs, and design trends are seriously useful and well designed resources that any nonprofit marketing team should check out. . 3) Kinesta :: kinsta.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

70% of people could pick up OOo/LO and use it with no training or help, even if they are used to MS Office. I would take a bet that 90% of people who use MS Office don’t need to pay for it, but can do fine with OOo/LO. The database has not come anywhere near the functionality of Access.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. Something as simple as asking them to open a google doc and write their name at the top of the document. You want people focused on their strategic conversation not struggling to make the tool work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training! Here''s what they said.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2009

Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords? Does anyone think to disable those employees' access to docs in the cloud? Tags: Physical Security Privacy Security Security Staff Training Using the Web and Internet. IT staff can test the security of passwords on their own networks.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

The Canadian technology battle continues with head-to-head reviews of document collaboration solutions, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. provide effective technology training. From TechSoup for Libraries. Learn how the experts (librarians!) What do you think of what we’ve been up to? Tell us about it in the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

VCs are often asked to play the lead role in welcoming, training, and doing in-take for new volunteers. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Nonprofits can find free training resources for volunteer coordination at [link]. Orientation. Supervised or supported service.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. This will (hopefully) enable hundreds of thousands of low-income people to begin using free cloud services like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, and wide array of online educational programs to name just a few examples. What Is the Digital Divide?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Remember that in the early months of your nonprofit, you are essentially “training” your supporters about what they can expect from you. All of these will get you started on the right foot for donor-based fundraising, which is the best way to create fundraising revenue you can count on.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Graves continued the conversation by discussing how TechSoup’s Online Community Team - a distributed team - works together to develop resources such as Nonprofits Live and online trainings via tweet chats. The most important ingredient, however, that enables this collaboration is regular communication through weekly conference calls.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Prashant manages the Big Tech program and is an engineer by training. For the last two years, we have been sharing our knowledge with partner NGOs in our ConnectIT training program , where we. Pooja Jayna is NASSCOM Foundation's manager of communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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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. A volunteer opportunity database is needed to connect service organizations with volunteers who have web and technical skills.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team. A food bank might aim to serve an additional 100,000 meals. People get held up trying to decide what format to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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. Security and management are in the hands of "trained, dedicated experts," which frees you up to focus on your mission, rather than the grunt work of technology maintenance.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage. Lower Costs. Reliance on third party(ies).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage. Lower Costs. Reliance on third party(ies).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting? The post 8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

For those interested in more detail on this topic, I first wrote about this nearly three years ago and unfortunately, it looks like CiviCRM still hasn’t made any progress on supporting platform-neutral web services API, per the main doc on this topic , which says “the vast bulk of CiviCRM’s functions are not exported thought any net-based (..)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One key piece for a successful migration is training all users/staff to make sure they know the purpose of a system switch, what the benefits are, and what is required from them. I also provided weekly tech hours in the office, giving the staff a chance to get individual help or training on tech issues/questions.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

Google Docs will win out for collaborative document capability every time,” he said. That additional custom training was what finally got all board members up to speed, he said. It’s not real time, but you can use it that way.” NTEN Member] Gavin Clabaugh was on the NPower board at the time, one of many he’s sat on over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

It searches Twitter and Facebook for phrases or hashtags and dumps them into a google doc spreadsheet. It’s particularly useful for aggregating hashtags from events or trainings. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis. The basic version is free, but you can add on data like Klout scores for a minimal fee.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You invest people for training. I’m not formally trained. And you also don’t need formal training. Your team needs training and support. They can do some things without checking with training materials or checking with somebody else. So let me share my screen, and we will get rolling. You invest time.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 9, 2009

I’m sitting here on the train to DC, skimming the 1,000 or so posts and analysis about Google Chrome OS. Don’t you use AdSense, AdWords, Feedburner, Analytics, gCalendar, and Docs? My opinion: This OS may eat into some Linux market share, but Apple and Microsoft have nothing to worry about yet.

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