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The Cloud for Nonprofits

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Photo storage & sharing sites like Dropbox.com E-mail sites like Gmail, Yahoo mail, or hotmail Video Conferencing providers Website hosting sites Social Media How can the cloud simplify IT? This cloud service gives organizations email services, file sharing, contact and calendar sharing, SharePoint, website hosting, and more.

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Are You Ready to DIY Office 365?

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Most nonprofit organizations can get free access to hosted email (Exchange), files (SharePoint & OneDrive), and instant messaging (Lync) in the cloud from Microsoft. Shared Files (SharePoint Online). Do you have a lot of time to explore SharePoint? SharePoint does not work like a network share.

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Hidden Gems for Nonprofits in the TechSoup Catalog

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(Please visit the site to view this video). It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. It provides Office 365 and SharePoint migration and management solutions. Video: TechSoup. spanhidden.

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Webinar Recap: Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint

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Office 365, SharePoint, and Disruption. Video demo of Broadcast Slideshow. Two dudes share a spreadsheet (video). Does Microsoft Office SmartArt Make You Smarter? Do More in the Cloud with Microsoft SkyDrive. Microsoft Office (through TechSoup). Microsoft Resources. Office 15 Minute Webinars. Broadcast Slideshow article.

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How TechSoup Uses Box Donations

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We needed a simple and easy-to-use solution to share PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, photos, and videos within and outside the organization. Although we use SharePoint for secure internal document sharing, we like to use Box for its easy bulk downloads and photo thumbnail views.

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Microsoft Lync 2013 Overview

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Microsoft's Lync 2013 is a unified communications application that enables users to talk to each other in a variety of ways, using instant messaging, voice, or video. With Lync, users can share their desktops and calendars and do live audio and video conferencing. Microsoft: Video Conferencing Software | Lync Server Features.

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How Our Organization Migrated to Office 365 in a Few Weeks

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At the first meeting, we watched Microsoft's Getting Started with Office 365 video , and at subsequent meetings, I apprised my co-workers of progress on the migration prep and answered questions. Install a webcam (now that Lync is our IM client, all workstations were upgraded to support video chat). It was absolutely worth it.