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MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. After playing with all the options, I ultimately decided to export the files to HTML, upload online via FTP and serve in a Salesforce custom web tab aptly named "How Do I?" They ask, "Judi, how do I.?" and I tell them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Strong interest or experience with our main tools: Python and R. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. You don't get as much control over the look and feel of your mind map as you would with say MindManager, although you can import an MindManager file. after John Smith pinged me and Nancy about an experiment with this tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It’s now been a few months and I wanted to check in on the status of the platform, the impact it’s had on communities using the tool and organizations supporting those groups. is that there is a wiki and polls feature that isn’t available on ning. The added advantage of grou.ps What was the work load like to switch?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Online Project Management Tools.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Choose an appropriate platform and deployment strategy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Useful Collaboration Tools. Collaboration Tools Chart. Online Collaboration Tools. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. This report is not just your father’s PDF file! The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

Online tools now exist that make it possible for work teams to contribute from outside a traditional office setting. Chief among them: what tools would facilitate such an arrangement and how to cultivate a collaborative spirit among team members? What Tools Are Useful for Collaborating with Virtual Staff?

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. Require accessibility: Configure your CMS to provide required fields to capture text alternatives for submitted media files. His customers appreciate his expertise delivered with a smile.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. .&# It is not uncommon that when a new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it.    That was until I got this email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked, and the files! . 

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

* Dividing Cells: in excel, you can select a column and say “split this in to many columns using the comma as a delimiter&# — I think it is under tools somewhere (I don’t have Excel so I don’t remember offhand.) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

.  But we also had people in the room who were new to social media - trying to understand the concepts of listening, participating, sharing content, and online communtiy building - and who were just being introduced to many of the tools - like Twitter or Utterli.      Use the right tool for the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

His approach is definitely a few pegs of up from entry level and if you invest in the tools, software, and services it will run about $500-1,000. His slides will be posted on the Podcamp wiki -- so look for them. If you want to spend money, SONY has tools like soundforge. Tag file - append text information to the file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. mean for you? hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Step 9: Wiki Wiki. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

The features inside of groups include discussion board, file archive, wiki, events, a map, and a number typical features to support online collaborations. Think about what you want to accomplish and pick the tools/features to support that work. You will probably be using a variety of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. Evaluation. Leave a Comment.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Tools for on-line advocacy, for example, make it easy for a supporter to write to Congress. Online donation tools are a great help for organizations that don't want to deal with setting up their own merchant account and secure server. But these tools store their own data - they don't talk to your organization's database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Given how bad email is as a tool for actually tracking histories of communication, and how much better other services are, why not declare email bankrupcy today? wiki that is looking at the difference between people who grew up with the Internet and those who didn't - and what that all means. One of my favorite Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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