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As of last Tuesday, Microsoft Citizenship is donating Office 365 to eligible nonprofits in 41 countries! By virtualizing their web-based operations with products like Office 365 and SharePoint, employees were able to access documents, Outlook, shared calendars and even their desktops from any computer or mobile device.
First, if you have not been exposed to Microsoft’s Office 365 product or to their SharePoint solution, let me take just a moment to provide some background. What Are Office 365 and SharePoint? This includes email, shared calendaring, the Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote), file sharing, and web conferencing.
Office Mobile includes: Mobile versions of Word , Excel , and PowerPoint , allowing you to view and edit Microsoft Office files using your Windows phone. Access to SkyDrive , Microsoft's cloud-based file storage and sharing solution. Stay Connected with Donated Smartphones from Dell. Not using a Windows phone? ReadyTalk.
The latest version of Office , available through TechSoup's Microsoft Software Donation Program , is the installed desktop version of the software. Both Office Standard 2013 and Office Professional Plus 2013 come with SkyDrive Pro, which you can use to store and access files from Office Web Apps or the desktop version of Microsoft Office.
By now you've almost certainly heard about the license donation program for Office 365. 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).
Like any nonprofit, we like to take advantage of the product donations that are on offer for charities, churches, foundations, and libraries. This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. Sharing Files Around the World. Getting Control of Our Images.
We've had a fair number of new product donations in the TechSoup catalog recently. We thought you might like to see what's new and also some product donations that are great, but not getting enough attention. AvePoint is a new donation program at TechSoup. Veritas is another new gem of a product donation.
See a good deal more about the new cloud computing online services and other ways of working collaboratively in the TechSoup article: A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. Donated or Discounted Online Collaboration Products. Additional Resources. Online Project Management Tools. Online Collaboration NPLive Recap.
Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. Having a donate button is fine, but donating as your primary or only call-to-action is not a reasonable ask to the vast majority of your traffic." Coordinate Your Staff and Office.
Here's the essential Tech Impact process in seven steps: Sign up for Office 365 trial and request authorization for the donation program. Export user mail to PST (personal storage) files. My steps were to: Export everyone's mail to a PST file, Set up their new profile in Outlook, Import the PST to the new profile, and.
The newest version of Office is now available as a donation through TechSoup! InfoPath 2013 is still available as a donation through TechSoup, and that version is included with Office Professional Plus 2016. The names of products in the Microsoft donation program on TechSoup don't include version numbers. PowerPoint.
Get it now through the TechSoup Microsoft donation program ! Whenever you save a Word document to OneDrive or SharePoint, it can be shared with your co-workers. Besides simply accessing and editing the file, your team can now work in real time on the same document. Don't have Microsoft Office 2016? — Editor.
Both versions of Acrobat are able to view, create, manage, modify, and print PDF files. Acrobat Pro DC, though, also lets you natively convert Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign files into PDFs and better integrates with Office 2016 for Mac. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC donations. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro for Windows donations.
The newest version of Office for Mac is now available as a donation through TechSoup! Cloud storage: Office applications integrate with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint, so you can access your files across devices. New Features for All Applications in Office for Mac.
There are also apps for Microsoft Office SharePoint and Microsoft Project as well. If you haven't upgraded to the new Office, be sure to read TechSoup's Microsoft Office: What Your Org Should Know and visit TechSoup's Microsoft donation program. These apps will only work with the latest version of Office. More Resources.
That's why TechSoup offers product donations that can help you with desktop publishing, presentations, sketches, graphs, charts, and more! It's easy to combine files from multiple applications and file types into a single PDF document. Be sure to check your eligibility for these product donations.
Lync also integrates with Microsoft Exchange , Office 2013 , and SharePoint , and can incorporate an entire organizational phone system. Before placing donation requests for Lync 2013 licensing, it is advisable for you to work with IT staff or IT consultants to devise an architecture plan for deployment. or remote workers.
Many companies offer donated or deeply discounted options to nonprofits. TechSoup donor partner Microsoft expanded its donated cloud offers for nonprofits this year to include a significant number of donated or significantly discounted products. Also, in the long run, cloud-based software tends to save organizations money.
I especially talk about the benefits of using Microsoft Office 365 for email, file sharing and collaboration. This includes Office 365 implementations, SharePoint work, Salesforce.com consulting and other network projects. Very few nonprofit organizations should be investing in servers or on-premise solutions.
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