You can now collaborate on emails directly in Google Docs
Digital Trends
MARCH 15, 2022
Collaborating on emails using Google Docs may seem strange, but it’s actually genius.
Gmail, Docs, Drive, and more Google services hit by widespread disruption
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2020
A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard. In some cases trying to simply compose a new email or a reply fails.
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Tips To Get Noticed During End-of-Year Fundraising
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
But I’m guessing your inbox was flooded with emails last year for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and GivingTuesday (me too). Do you remember any emails that stood out? They were just within reach of their $30,000 goal and sent an update email Wednesday morning, inviting everyone to help get them there.
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Startup Stories: SendGrid shares its passion for fixing email [Video]
The Next Web
MAY 16, 2013
This is the first episode of a series of short docs exploring the key moments, struggles and passions in building a company. SendGrid is a cloud-based email infrastructure that relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems.
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Gmail will now let you edit Office documents directly from email attachments
The Verge
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Google is making it even easier to work with Microsoft Office files, with the company now allowing users to directly edit attached Office files in Gmail, much like it already allows with Google Docs or Sheets files. But the new editing function doesn’t convert Office files into Google Docs, instead preserving the original file format.
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Lame spam of the day: Google Doc
Robert Weiner
APRIL 17, 2013
for immediate access, please sign on with your email Respectfully. Subject: Fwd: Attached Document. Text: I have an important document that i would like to share with you i uploaded it with Google document, CLICK HERE. Laila Brenner.
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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 12, 2010
First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).
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Smartsheet: Frustrated with online project management no longer
Judi Sohn
JULY 21, 2013
Why aren’t you just using Google Docs?” ” Yes, some of what we’re doing in Smartsheet could be done in Google Docs. It’s an Excel/Google Doc-like online app that generates spreadsheets that are more dynamic than just rows & columns. Right now we have 389 active sheets in our Team account.
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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains Including SharePoint & Zoom Docs
TechRepublic
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
million phishing emails last year. The cyber security firm reported in its latest annual report that their researchers found more than 30.4
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How to share a Google Doc privately
The Verge
JANUARY 25, 2022
It seems that a writer had shared a new Google Docs article with them (a usual way of submitting a freelance piece), and when my colleague opened the article, they found another, unknown person was already reading it — somebody who was definitely not on our staff. So here’s how you can share your Google Docs document — carefully.
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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications
NTEN
AUGUST 5, 2014
At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. We also asked the audience what tools they would recommend through Poll Everywhere.
Gmail has a new logo that’s a lot more Google
The Verge
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Google has also revamped its Calendar, Docs, Meet, and Sheets logos to match the new Gmail design. Google is attempting to merge Gmail, Chat, and Docs into a central location, to better compete with the integrated approach of Microsoft Office and specifically Outlook email.
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Google’s ‘smart canvas’ vision for Workspace is bringing a pageless interface to Docs
The Verge
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
A ‘pageless’ Google Docs document | Image: Google. That includes a new look for Gmail that’s starting to roll out this month, search chips (you can just call them filters) for Google Drive , and a set of changes that are about to arrive for Google Docs and Google Sheets. Pageless’ Google Docs UI. Image: Google.
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66 Email: Still Not Dead!
Care2
JANUARY 24, 2012
But when Zuckerberg says that email is going to die because young people prefer to text, you can’t help but laugh at the irony since providing your email address is actually how you register for a Facebook account. You need to provide an email address to sign up for their enewsletter. You need to provide an email address.
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Tools I use: basic workflow
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 12, 2011
The center of my workflow, like for most consultants, is email. I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. It’s not so up to date, and it’s a list more of tools I have used, and some I still use.).
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How to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged
NonProfit Hub
JANUARY 14, 2020
When you work as an email marketer, you need to expect a certain amount of email unsubscribes each year. The good news is there are some actions you can take to reduce the rate of email unsubscribes. The good news is there are some actions you can take to reduce the rate of email unsubscribes. Email Frequency.
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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing
TechImpact
DECEMBER 19, 2013
Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Gmail, Yahoo!
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It’s not just you, Google says Gmail is messed up right now
The Verge
DECEMBER 15, 2020
The errors come just a day after many Google properties, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs, were hit with a widespread outage. Users have reported being unable to access their inboxes, while others have said they’re receiving bounceback messages when trying to email someone with a Gmail address.
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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. We chose the email vehicle believing that the element of surprise would be important to our efforts.
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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter
NetWits
JUNE 6, 2011
Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? These could be included online or in email newsletters. Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. How do you use logins?
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Twitter Hacking and Cloud Security
Robert Weiner
JULY 23, 2009
This can happen with internal network passwords as well, but there are differences: IT staff can require secure passwords for their own networks and email systems. They can't control the password requirements for web-based email accounts or cloud computing apps. Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords?
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Microsoft Word is getting text predictions next month
The Verge
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
The new feature will work similarly to Google Docs’ Smart Compose option, using machine learning to predict what words an author will need to speed up document creation. Microsoft also started rolling out identical text predictions in Outlook for Windows this month, allowing users to compose emails faster. Image: Microsoft.
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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 29, 2022
Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. You may also want to ask your volunteer their preferred method of communication – phone, text, or email – in their volunteer application. Set up an automatic email that alerts everyone that needs to know.
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How to use Google’s free transcription tools
The Verge
AUGUST 14, 2020
Google Docs voice typing. Even longtime users of Google Docs may not be aware of its voice typing tool, which converts speech into text. To use voice typing as a transcription tool: Open a new Google Doc. However, these are subscription services with fees. Select Tools > Voice typing. I’ll explain.
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Promevo gPanel: Google Apps management without tears
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.) The regular Google Apps control panel gives some very basic administrator controls for managing email settings for individual users and globally. That's about it.
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Locked out and totally down: Facebook’s scramble to fix a massive outage
The Verge
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Several employees told The Verge they resorted to talking through their work-provided Outlook email accounts since Facebook mainly runs on an internal version of the social network that is currently not accessible. While employees could email each other, they couldn’t send or receive emails from external addresses.
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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity
Get Fully Funded
JULY 13, 2021
Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.
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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.
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50 Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again.
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122 Online Tools to Help You Beat the Post-Holiday Blues
NetWits
JANUARY 3, 2011
This is a really useful tool for helping coordinate ongoing activities such as email blasts. Google Docs. Google Docs allows you to set up various types of documents, including worksheets and spreadsheets. Best of all, it’s smart phone accessible.
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128 What Tools Are You Using for Listening, Engaging, and Social Media Management?
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 grabs all your “ bacn “ from social networks and aggregates into a single email. Saves you time logging in and checking or getting separate notices in email from the social network site.
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2 Fiscal Benefits Of Cloud Computing For Nonprofits
TechImpact
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Some general programs often taken for granted by contemporary nonprofit employees include Office 365, Google Docs, email software, CRM systems, and database management software, all of which can be accessed in the cloud depending on the service provider. Your nonprofit may be employing cloud computing without even knowing it.
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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 16, 2019
Expert Support – WordPress tech wizards go above and beyond to provide personalized support to you through live chat and email ticketing. 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. . Wrapping Up.
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10 top tools for business brainstorming and collaboration
The Next Web
JULY 14, 2012
Stick With What Works, Google Docs. We use Google Docs for everything. Brainstorming through email or any static site is incredibly difficult, as you lose the dynamic interaction of all participants. The platform really allows everyone to piggyback on other ideas in order to come with something truly collaborative.”
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Google’s making a free Workspace tier for businesses that don’t need its email
The Verge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Basically, it lets workers use tools like Google Docs, Sheets, Chat, etc. According to Google’s blog post , users will be able to sign up for Essentials Starter using their existing email accounts and will then be able to invite their co-workers to work on projects with them. Image: Google.
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Twitter engineers pushed to replace ‘master’ and ‘slave’ programming terms
The Verge
JULY 2, 2020
Twitter eng recently shared that we would be making the language in our code, docs, and configs more inclusive. The work the team did here will inform a larger workstream underway to guide our language to be more inclusive and more human as a company,” a Twitter spokesperson said in an email to The Verge on Thursday.
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Thoughts from EMSA 2010
NetWits
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
The week before last, I was lucky enough to attend the Email Marketing Summit Australia 2010 (EMSA). It was fantastic to see mix of new and experienced email marketers, as well as a variety of organisations, both Nonprofit and otherwise. Avoid using ‘click here’ in your email copy.
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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021
The Verge
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Alongside photos, “Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard files” will also begin counting against storage caps. This puts an end to some very clever hacks like this one that turned files into Google Docs through a binary conversion tool.).
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Life after Common Ground: Part 3 – Causeview
Judi Sohn
MARCH 25, 2013
It’s a bit like buying Microsoft Office or Adobe Create Suite, rather than using Apple Mail as your email application and Microsoft Word for your word processor and Google Docs when you want to edit a spreadsheet. Best of vendor vs. best of breed. A good argument can be made in either direction.
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Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
The Verge
JUNE 14, 2021
A lot of people will soon have the option to switch over to Google’s more modern system for Gmail, Docs, and Chat. In that sense, it seems that Spaces wants to serve both as a Slack competitor and as a competitor for public Discord groups and, well, maybe as an optional replacement for email groups. Google Spaces.
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Skiff lands $10.5M to build out its end-to-end encrypted workspaces
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
We wrote about Skiff last year ahead of its launch: Skiff is a web app that has much of the same document-writing and sharing capabilities as Google Docs but is built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption , so Skiff does not have access to users’ documents like Google does. “The way we look at it is Web 2.0
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Google has finally added iOS’s privacy labels to Gmail
The Verge
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
According to the privacy label, though, it doesn’t collect your name, physical address, or phone number (though as an email client, Gmail obviously collects your email address). For contrast, here’s the app privacy information for another email app, Hey. What does the app privacy label for Gmail look like? See for yourself.
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Investors don’t want to meet you, they want to be introduced to you
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
And not to get too bogged down in logistics, but here’s how you should do it: Send them a fresh email requesting an introduction to a specific investor with enough information that it can be forwarded by your friend without further editing and short enough that the investor can read it on their mobile phone.
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How to Write a Killer Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to Get a Grant
Get Fully Funded
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Whether you’re sending your Letter of Inquiry via the postal service or including it as a PDF to an email, be sure the first page/top page has your logo on it and your organizations basic information (mailing address, phone number, and website) at the bottom. Instead, find a way to use fewer words. Include your logo and basic info.
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