Collaboration Tools

What are nonprofit workflow tools? Through easy-to-use interfaces, workflow tools let you easily and quickly define the rules for even the most complex processes then follow those rules to control the routing, security and distribution of electronic documents for an almost unlimited number of uses. Along the way, electronic workflow tools speed up processes, improve security, and provide oversight capabilities while making it possible for more work to be done by less people. Workflow tools help nonprofits do their job better!

Document and File Sharing

collaborative/workflow tools; document sharing solutions for joint editing and version control. Documents in various formats are available according to user permissions, so that they can be composed and edited jointly; current versions are always available

Internal Scheduling

Scheduling (e.g., Google calender) for maintaining availability schedules, proposing meeting dates and times, confirming meetings, generating reminders about meetings

Project Planning and Task Assignments

New collaborative/workflow tools: Project planning and task assignments; set up and assign tasks, track, send reminders, attach resources and references

Synchronous Communication

New collaborative/workflow tools: Instant messaging and VolP such as AIM or Skype allow for chance encounters and quick Q&A for progress on team projects; also supports online meetings

Wiki

New collaborative/workflow tool: wiki hosts collaborative websites that can be jointly edited and linked either by login permission or public access, in which case “members of the community can add value to website by sharing information and experiences, and this can create community feeling”

Whiteboard

New collaborative/workflow tool: whiteboards hosts documents or images that can be jointly edited.