Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

When Gmail came out a few years ago, I read the raves from other NpTechers. But why can't shift from Outlook to gmail? Exported my contacts from Outlook into Gmail. I had been using Plaxo and am now need to figure out if there is a browser toolbar that works with gmail. Please don't laugh too hard. There, I've named it.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) This allows me to keep this info in sync across my computers via Dropbox without actually exposing the sensitive content unnecessarily. I've been using it as my default on my MacBook and iMac for quite some time now.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I use Spanning Sync to keep iCal and Address Book on the laptop in sync with iCal and Address Book on the Mac (and in sync with Google Calendar and Gmail). I’ll meet folks on my trip, enter their contact info into my phone and have no way of transferring that info to my laptop until I get home.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 4, 2010

" And they wouldn't use a Gmail address. To apply, Kindly forward the following info: to our Human Resource Department at the email listed below for further instructions. The income wouldn't be tax-free just because it's from an international charity. I hope no one falls for this. ==. Subject: Important Message(Job Offer).

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

” Strac, which only requires an API integration and supports platform including Office 365, Gmail, Slack, OneDrive, Google Drive and Zendesk, uses algorithms to “tokenize” a customer’s data. This is why we are getting growing interest on a daily basis.”

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Now being featured on your Gmail page. Google Meet recently became available to Gmail users. Since then, Google has made Meet available to all users of its free Gmail service — in fact, it has added a link to Meet on the left side of its Gmail online app. Up to 10 participants for Gmail users. Google Meet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. 5 Jay 12.18.07

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Until now, creators had to change their name and icon for their entire Google account — so their name on YouTube would be the same name they send emails from in Gmail. On the desktop, you can change a channel name and picture by going to YouTube Studio and then Customization, where they’re located under the Basic Info and Branding tabs.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I gather that Google can sync notes and tasks, even though they don't exist in Gmail or Google's calendar. Setting up a Gmail account was incredibly simple - I just had to enter my login info and the Pre knew how to configure the account. The easiest -- and cheapest -- way to sync is through Google.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. The trio said that they had to become organized once they joined their jobs and meticulously follow naming systems and folder structures to easily find info.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We can’t all have a PA to keep track for us, but Augment hopes that a PAI, if you will, might be the next best thing, learning from every digital interaction you have and providing the info you need before you even ask for it. “Hold on,” I hear you typing.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2020

You can back up your app data, call history, and other info to your Google Drive. If you want to back up your photos in their original resolution, you can do that via the Google One storage plan, which is now available to Gmail users even if they don’t subscribe to a paid plan. Once you’ve backed up your app history, etc.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Being a Google Nonprofit also gets you other Google perks, including: Special features on Youtube, like a donate button and video annotations that link to your site Free Google apps, like Gmail and Google Drive under your domain Listing on One Today , Google’s mobile fundraising app. Insert your validation token. 5-week Cohort.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2011

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) This allows me to keep this info in sync across my computers via Dropbox without actually exposing the sensitive content unnecessarily. I’ve been using it as my default on my MacBook and iMac for quite some time now.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2021

This is no secret, as the direct collection of credit card info by Netflix and Spotify reportedly resulted in Google posting a “ clarification ” explaining that Play Store apps must use Google’s billing system and giving them a year to change. Image: MLex ,CONSOLIDATED FIRST AMENDED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT, CASE NO. 3:20-CV-05761-JD - 53.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Paprika lets you paste in links for those recipes, pulls out the crucial information (ingredients, directions, servings) from the sometimes endless stories and histories that food blogs insist on including, and saves the info in your own digital cookbook to pull up whenever you need it. Halide Camera. Halide Camera. Microsoft Outlook.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

That info includes thumbnails, titles, and descriptions for web links, and latest activity and owner information for Drive files. Google introduced this AI-powered tool in Gmail in 2018 and then in Docs on the web in 2019. The full changes are as follows: Link previews in Docs. Smart Compose in Docs.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Recently, the company came up with a new feature to help its users keep their info to themselves: DuckDuckGo Email Protection. The emailed acknowledgment from the first, Allrecipes, took over an hour to appear in my regular Gmail listing. This is where DuckDuckGo’s latest product comes in. Browser extension.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Gmail is marginally better. It works with Touch and FaceID, is easy to set up, and even securely saves your credit card info for online shopping. Spark Mail. Screenshot: Readdle Technologies. Spark isn’t the prettiest email client, but it gets a lot of things right. Listen, Apple’s Mail app is fine.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Shumer was careful to assure that security comes first and this isn’t a data-sucking operation — obviously no one would want to use a tool that reads your email and uses that info for nefarious purposes, with the notable exception of Gmail.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

.” Here’s how Flowrite works: The user provides a set of basic (bullet pointed) instructions covering the key points of what they want to say and the AI-powered tool does the rest — generating a full email text that conveys the required info in a way that, well, flows.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2009

Gather demographic info if you don’t already have it. Some email browsers like Gmail don’t render images properly and some people prefer to read e-newsletters on the web instead of via email. Survey Your List: Ask your subscribers which subject areas they are interested in reading about. by age, interest, activism level).

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Incidentally, if your “Other contacts” list is in itself too unwieldy, you can stop Gmail from adding names to it every time you send or receive an email. If you want to really clean up your contacts list, but don’t want to lose the info for those contacts, you can export them into a separate CSV or vCard file.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

If you access your Facebook or Gmail accounts from multiple devices, SignMeOut lets you close all the open sessions, regardless of which device your accounts are opened on. developed their own app, which shows adoptable animals, shelter and adoption info, news, upcoming events, and links for providing donations.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Outlook, Hotmail, or Gmail) is not set up for email marketing and has significant limitations that can hurt rather than help your email marketing efforts. Full contact info. Use a tool like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, or something similar to send out your email newsletter. Your regular email (e.g. Social media links.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Another day, another new feature of Gmail. Here's some more info from Google about how Priority Inbox works. There's a good post from OtherInbox that all you nonprofiteers might want to emulate for your Gmail users to encourage them to mark your messages as Priority. Author: Sally Heaven. This one is called Priority Inbox.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It uses the info for targeted ads. Here’s how Claire Cain Miller explains how it works: “Once you sign up for Plus, it becomes your account for all Google products, from Gmail to YouTube to maps, so Google sees who you are and what you do across its services, even if you never once return to the social network itself.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When you give your email address to a site in order to log in or just get some info, many companies will take that as a free pass to do anything from relentlessly spamming you with newsletters to selling your email address to advertisers, who will in turn track you relentlessly. Illustration by Ori Toor.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Again, a page will explain what info the contact will have access to. You can also activate a Gmail message to anyone who emails you after the manager kicks in, telling them that the account is no longer active. Tap on the Add Legacy Contact button. You will be presented with a list of your contacts. Choose one. Tap on Continue.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

Use info@yourwebsiteaddress.org as a general address and firstname@yourwebsiteaddress.org for personalized communication. It’s tempting to keep using your personal email (like a gmail account), but you will make a more professional impression by using an email address with your nonprofit’s name in the domain.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. For more info on this, I like Laura Orsini’s plain language description on ReadWrite. Thankfully, the TechSoup site is unaffected.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Gather demographic info if you don’t already have it. Some email browsers like Gmail don’t render images properly and some people prefer to read e-newsletters on the web instead of via email. Survey Your List: Ask your subscribers which subject areas they are interested in reading about. by age, interest, activism level).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. Yelp - for finding reviews and other info on all kinds of businesses. Find part one here. the apps that TechSoup folks like.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. Am I hiring the right people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. (Source: Avinash Kaushik 's "Web Analytics An Hour A Day"). The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Participants would drop off/pick up their items on the last Friday/Saturday of the month, giving me approximately four days to type/print the exhibition text, mount info cards, lay out displays, move shelving etc., You can reach her directly via denvercommunitymuseum @ gmail.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

What if you’ve already got 10GB worth of Gmail and 2GB of documents stored in a Google Drive like yours truly, leaving just 3GB left for photos before you’ll need to pay? Here’s an attempt to condense that info for you: Everyone, including non-Pixel owners : Anything you upload before June 1st, 2021, won’t count against your 15GB quota.

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