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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Although Karen’s advice was focused on technology consultants, the business management tips (#4) are pertinent for all independent consultants. .&# Tags: Consulting. Reposted with Karen’s permission.). Make sure this is agreed to. -

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. The center of my workflow, like for most consultants, is email. It works for multiple projects.

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How Nonprofits Can Ensure Security and Compliance of Sensitive Data in the Cloud

NTEN

Director of Security Consulting. If you use Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Salesforce, or Yahoo mail, you’re in the cloud. Matt Goche. Sungard Availability Services. How can a nonprofit protect the data it holds in the cloud?

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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

NTEN

The social media team includes the Deputy Director, the Special Projects Director, the Social Media Manager, the social media consultant, summer interns, and an outside content development consultant. Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. Data Cleaning Data Enrichment Data Management data cleaning data consulting data conversion data degradation data management data management plan data quality donor data donor data enrichment fundraising appeal' GARY: Ditto.

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Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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