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It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for all week… Jane and Tierney are back, and ready for our first challenge! Our challenge this week was to send out an e-newsletter to let people know about our upcoming Toronto Net Tuesday event.

These days, it feels like most nonprofits/charities send out email newsletters to your supporters. There’s a lot that can be said (and has been said) on why you should have a e-newsletter (or not), what things you should think about, how often you should send emails, what you should talk about, etc.

Have data? Don't have data? Have too much data? If you are anything like me and have lots of excel spreadsheets but not sure what to do with them or how to give them shape, then this Net Tuesday provides some great insights and easy tools to help you get started with sharing your story through data.

The evening begins with a fun exercise: Let's determine where you fit in the "Five Stages of Mearsurement Acceptance". Be honest now...are you in:

Welcome back! The last few weeks I've been getting a lot of calls and emails about issues around Microsoft Office, so I thought I'd focus on the most common issues in a little more depth, here.

To make it quick and easy, I've split this post up into two sections: Installation problems, and, coming next week, License problems.

Things have been exciting recently at TechSoup Canada, as I just got back from a trip to San Francisco where I got to meet colleagues from TechSoup Global and attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) hosted annually by NTEN. Back in the office, it was all hands on deck as we worked to make sure all of you could get your orders in and processed by the end of March (end of fiscal year for many nonprofits in Canada). 

Over the past little while of browsing around online, I’ve been seeing more and more pretty infographics, like this one (on the right).

We are thrilled to announce that TechSoup Canada won the “Minister’s Award” at the Ontario Trillium Foundation Great Grant Awards 2012. This award is given to organizations that demonstrate a significant impact on the community.

By: Marnie Grona, Director of Marketing & Communications, Imagine Canada

En français - Sommet des OSBL : l’histoire des médias sociaux

When you have such a good handle on the ways in which you are saving the world and why your cause is important, it can be hard to remember that other people might not see it the same way. This is why storytelling has always been such a key skill for nonprofits, because to really be effective we need to engage with a network of donors, volunteers and other types of supporters.