Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. In a networked nonprofit, VCs could partner new volunteers with experienced volunteers to save time in orientation. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start. Guiding volunteers to success is equally critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Use virtual tools to manage campaign internally (Yammer, Google Docs, Listening Dashboards, Private Facebook Groups, etc). Definitely a keeper for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ) You can order your copy of Social Change Any Time Every Where on Amazon! Encourage brainstorming. Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page. I would like to give special thanks to Andre Blackman and Patricia Anderson who were immensely helpful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training. Collaborate with Wikis. where blog recaps and upcoming events can be found. Tips for Collaborating in Small Chunks.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

2) Get a wiki. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. Make sure this is agreed to. -

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Online Project Management Tools. Online Collaboration NPLive Recap. Collaboration Tools Chart.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

" I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring. Everyone knows the nuisance of emailing around a doc and then having to collate everyone's edits. Wikis or Writely can certainly be more efficient. I'd focus on tools that are meeting a need, "resolving a pain point."

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

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

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. find these, we use a combination of SlideShare, Google Docs, and tagging to keep things connected [.] He uses Twitter to curate information related to his. organization's mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization. and budget decisions." This tool includes.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. An internal, shared group wiki will allow you to explore different topics (i.e. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. I also learned about CiviCase, which is actually present in 2.2. I saw the example of it used for the Physician Health Program in Canada.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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