{"id":2269,"date":"2008-03-23T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=522"},"modified":"2008-03-23T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T00:34:08","slug":"google-for-non-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/google-for-non-profits.html","title":{"rendered":"Google for Non-Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/nonprofits\/\">Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations<\/a>.\u00a0 If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/grants\/details.html\">then you most likely qualify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is fairly neat.\u00a0 I worked with a library conference for several years, and much of what I set up for the collaborative and supportive workings for this group are included in the Google offering:\u00a0 an online workspace, communication tools (e-mail and group discussion), online checkout, and analytics to offer feedback on the website are all analogous to tools I set up for the group one at a time.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they offers Google Docs, Calendar, and Google Grants (which is basically free advertising on Google search results pages).\u00a0\u00a0 For an organization like a Friends of the Library or a library-focused conference, these are tools that can take the work of a few people and turn out very professional, well-organized results.<\/p>\n<p>If your group has a basic footprint on the web, but can see the benefits from increased collaboration and outreach, this is a fantastic offer that should be seriously reviewed and considered.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/google-for-non-profits.html\">Official Google Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations.\u00a0 If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat.\u00a0 I worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/google-for-non-profits.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2924,2934,2936,2943,2952,2963],"tags":[3787,3788,5350,4594,3789],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-google","category-groups","category-libraries","category-online-services","category-rfs","tag-communication-tools","tag-free-advertising","tag-google","tag-official","tag-online-workspace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-AB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}