Free Blog & Content Management System for Nonprofits

Wordpress offers nonprofits Free Blog & Content Management System for Nonprofits

Here is another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits." I encourage you to read the full bloghere.

Wordpress - Blog & Content Management System

"Wordpress can confuse people at first because there are two Wordpresses: WordPress.org is home to the free and open source blogging software, and WordPress.com is a site that runs the WordPress software and lets you host your own blog on their site. The are both free to anyone and great for non-profit organizations. If you have your own website you can install WordPress as an add-on to provide a blog on your site, or it can be used to run the entire site like a content management system, or CMS. In fact you’re looking at WordPress right now, as I use it to run my website.

"You can log into an administrative panel on your website and write or edit content as if you were using a word processor, or using HTML if you prefer. WordPress stores your content in a database and automatically applies styles or themes to your work so you can worry about creating content rather than making things work and look right.

"Out of the box WordPress isn’t the best CMS. (It’s a great blogging framework!) Luckily there are many many freely available extensions that add all sorts of features to WordPress making it a very adaptable and easy to use CMS. You don’t need to be an expert to use it or install it, especially if you use DreamHost!"

Read about the other resources here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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Free email and collaboration tools for your school

Google provides free email and collaboration tools for schools

Here is yet another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits." I encourage you to read the full bloghere.

Google Apps Education Version - Web-based Mail & Collaboration Application Suite

Google Apps Education Edition is a set of web-based applications and services that runs on Google’s servers but using your domain name. You can outsource your email & office applications, use instant messaging, host video, and collaborate. The Education Edition includes some extra features and is also free for non-profit organizations.

You can use Google Apps with any domain, but the Education Edition has some extra features that could benefit larger organizations. If you use DreamHost for your hosting you’ll be able to install Google Apps when you set up a new domain in the control panel.

Read about the other resources here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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Free Office Suite for Nonprofits

OpenOffice.org offers free Office Suite to nonprofits (actually, it's open source, so it's free for everyone!)

Here is another resource from Peter Grandstaff's blog, "8 Amazing eResources That Are Free For Non-Profits." I encourage you to read the full bloghere.

OpenOffice.org - Open Source Office Suite
Also known as OO.o, OOo, or plain old Open Office. It is a completely free for anyone office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation creator, and more. This can save a non-profit a couple hundred dollars per computer. Just make sure Microsoft Office doesn’t come on your new computers.

It seems like everyone thinks they need Microsoft Office, but Open Office will meet all their needs and add features they’ve always wanted in Microsoft Office. For instance Open Office can open MS Word and Excel documents and it can export files as PDF, easily.

On top of all the great features Open Office runs on MacOS, Linux, and Windows! That means you can open your files on any computer. If you’ve ever tried to open Microsoft Works documents on a Mac you know how valuable that can be.

Read about the other resources here:
http://www.petergrandstaff.com/marketing/8-amazing-eresources-that-are-free-for-non-profits

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