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We want to help. </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div class='cols-wrapper loading'> <div class='col-main-wrapper'> <div class='col-main'> <div class='section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='post' data-id='2235263862390921179' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html' itemprop='url' title='Multiple Administrators Can Now Manage Your Organization's Google for Nonprofits Account '> Multiple Administrators Can Now Manage Your Organization's Google for Nonprofits Account </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 21, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People at nonprofits tend to collaborate a lot, working on everything from grant proposals to volunteer databases. We’ve received lots of feedback from members of the Google for Nonprofits community requesting the ability to add multiple administrators to their Google for Nonprofits account.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve been working hard to address that feedback and we’re now excited to announce the ability to have multiple administrators manage your Google for Nonprofits account.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When you sign into your account, you’ll see a new screen on the User Home Page to “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manage Administrators</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” where you can</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> review pending requests and accept or deny those requests. </span></b><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><img height="261" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/4S7WgmpI1RdnXgMrrn4jG9BpQ0lU9jp1JHowKUx8KcpeJE6xiWqSdoKBqkKt670MWl4r2KujuyqUW3KrbvO29HGAX8vFvCQA7d1RO0mo6vJbpjqllqk" width="512" /></b></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If someone is requesting administrative access of your organization's account you’ll get an email notification. On the User Home Page you will see the option to “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manage Administrators </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with ‘(Action required)’ written next to that. By selecting ‘Manage Administrators,’ you can make a decision on whether to approve or deny that request.</span></b><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><img height="384" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1x0f16GdVbXuDfZnnoQvKHa4XtuHjEK1Ctbb-x2O8RDG6vNMDTEBnXkUhsiO8W9XgssQBu7xpuF1yx6nxDyzt-HluLNzO60cgpRlUdqmerFFTP901dY" width="512" /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-weight: normal;">    </b></div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So if you’d like to have multiple administrators manage your Google for Nonprofits account, encourage your colleagues to </span><a href="http://support.google.com/nonprofits/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1699860&topic=1686410&ctx=topic"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">request to be an administrator</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Then you can </span><a href="https://google-for-nonprofits.appspot.com/checkstatus"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sign in to your Google for Nonprofits account</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and accept their requests.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Sara Boccabella, Alyssa Caulley and Denver Ogaro, Google for Nonprofits engineering</span></b> </script> <noscript> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People at nonprofits tend to collaborate a lot, working on everything from grant proposals to volunteer databases. We’ve received lots of feedback from members of the Google for Nonprofits community requesting the ability to add multiple administrators to their Google for Nonprofits account.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve been working hard to address that feedback and we’re now excited to announce the ability to have multiple administrators manage your Google for Nonprofits account.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When you sign into your account, you’ll see a new screen on the User Home Page to “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manage Administrators</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” where you can</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> review pending requests and accept or deny those requests. </span></b><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><img height="261" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/4S7WgmpI1RdnXgMrrn4jG9BpQ0lU9jp1JHowKUx8KcpeJE6xiWqSdoKBqkKt670MWl4r2KujuyqUW3KrbvO29HGAX8vFvCQA7d1RO0mo6vJbpjqllqk" width="512" /></b></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If someone is requesting administrative access of your organization's account you’ll get an email notification. On the User Home Page you will see the option to “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manage Administrators </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with ‘(Action required)’ written next to that. By selecting ‘Manage Administrators,’ you can make a decision on whether to approve or deny that request.</span></b><br /> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><img height="384" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1x0f16GdVbXuDfZnnoQvKHa4XtuHjEK1Ctbb-x2O8RDG6vNMDTEBnXkUhsiO8W9XgssQBu7xpuF1yx6nxDyzt-HluLNzO60cgpRlUdqmerFFTP901dY" width="512" /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-weight: normal;">    </b></div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.4437282341532409" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So if you’d like to have multiple administrators manage your Google for Nonprofits account, encourage your colleagues to </span><a href="http://support.google.com/nonprofits/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1699860&topic=1686410&ctx=topic"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">request to be an administrator</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Then you can </span><a href="https://google-for-nonprofits.appspot.com/checkstatus"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sign in to your Google for Nonprofits account</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and accept their requests.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Sara Boccabella, Alyssa Caulley and Denver Ogaro, Google for Nonprofits engineering</span></b> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Multiple Administrators Can Now Manage Your Organization's Google for Nonprofits Account &url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/08/multiple-administrators-can-now-manage.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1473350799417552645' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html' itemprop='url' title='Ann Arbor Launches Google Product Office Hours for the Nonprofit Community'> Ann Arbor Launches Google Product Office Hours for the Nonprofit Community </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 27, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Next week, Google’s Ann Arbor, Michigan office is piloting Community Office Hours for local nonprofits. As a proud member of the Metro Detroit community, Google Ann Arbor is eager to help southeast Michigan nonprofits achieve their goals by providing extra support on Google tools.<br /><br />Ann Arbor’s Community Office Hours will provide nonprofits with an opportunity to sign up for 20 minute appointments to receive one-on-one help with Google product questions. Google volunteers will be on-hand to answer questions related to Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Google Places, Google Apps, and Google+.<br /><br />The inaugural session will take place on <span style="font-weight:bold;">Thursday, September 29</span> from 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m. with recurring sessions every Thursday through the end of October. Office hours are located at the McKinley Towne Center (201 S. Division Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) in downtown Ann Arbor.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Interested in making an appointment?</span><br />Registration is required. To sign up, first <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/googa2officehours/choose-product">select the Google product</a> you have a question about, then register for a 20 minute appointment.<br /><br />If you have any questions, please send them to a2communityofficehours@google.com.<br /><br />We look forward to seeing you at Community Office Hours!<br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Colby Chilcote, Google AdWords Team</span> </script> <noscript> Next week, Google’s Ann Arbor, Michigan office is piloting Community Office Hours for local nonprofits. As a proud member of the Metro Detroit community, Google Ann Arbor is eager to help southeast Michigan nonprofits achieve their goals by providing extra support on Google tools.<br /><br />Ann Arbor’s Community Office Hours will provide nonprofits with an opportunity to sign up for 20 minute appointments to receive one-on-one help with Google product questions. Google volunteers will be on-hand to answer questions related to Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Google Places, Google Apps, and Google+.<br /><br />The inaugural session will take place on <span style="font-weight:bold;">Thursday, September 29</span> from 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m. with recurring sessions every Thursday through the end of October. Office hours are located at the McKinley Towne Center (201 S. Division Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) in downtown Ann Arbor.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Interested in making an appointment?</span><br />Registration is required. To sign up, first <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/googa2officehours/choose-product">select the Google product</a> you have a question about, then register for a 20 minute appointment.<br /><br />If you have any questions, please send them to a2communityofficehours@google.com.<br /><br />We look forward to seeing you at Community Office Hours!<br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Colby Chilcote, Google AdWords Team</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Ann Arbor Launches Google Product Office Hours for the Nonprofit Community&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/09/ann-arbor-launches-google-product.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7746404128124265032' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html' itemprop='url' title='An Introduction To Map-Making, Part 2'> An Introduction To Map-Making, Part 2 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, June 9, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> New to map-making with Google tools? <a href="http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-1.html">Last week</a> we focused on how you could get started by creating a map of your organization’s offices with <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mymaps.html">Google Maps My Places</a>. After walking through My Places, I mentioned <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html">Google Fusion Tables</a>, another powerful Google mapping tool. One of the many applications of this tool is that you can import a spreadsheet and turn it into a map for easy publishing on the web. Fusion Tables is especially useful to people who have more than just a handful of locations to plot on a map, or who want a more interactive map that allows users to filter locations or other complex tasks. <br /> <br />A great example of a nonprofit that benefits from using Fusion Tables is <a href="http://www.marinspace.com/">MarinSpace</a>, an organization dedicated to helping Marin County nonprofits improve the quality of their workspaces. MarinSpace regularly looks at nonprofits’ locations to understand where these organizations work in relation to each other. From mapping their locations, they can make co-locating suggestions and identify gaps in community services. They’ve even found that sometimes there are clusters of organizations that don’t realize they are a block away from each other and could be sharing knowledge and resources. Executive Director Shelley Hamilton had been using My Maps to map all this data. After learning about Fusion Tables at a <a href="http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html">Google Earth Outreach workshop</a> in February, Shelley started using it to map nonprofits and is enthusiastic about how easy it is to use: “Once you have your info in Fusion Tables, a couple of clicks and boom, there it is!”<div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="351px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/9HJzG1BKRX5bs4Uw3FumEDNNNwjj8R-KcQhThPFfwCpVUP4HZ5DFS8m_kR8j3foBgOkgTGGxFvlc1m6pe_IClqOOX49-MOaZySBf3Aoss_ABFyRG1Po" width="412px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.marinspace.com/nonprofits-in-marin-google-map/">Nonprofits in Marin Map</a> by<a href="http://www.marinspace.com/"> MarinSpace</a></div> <br />Who doesn’t like a little instant gratification? Let’s get started on our own map, shall we? <br /> <br />Before you start: <br /><ul><li>You’ll need to have a Google Account to use Fusion Tables, so <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home">create a free account</a> if you don’t have one.</li><li>Prepare a dataset with location information to import into Fusion Tables. You can use comma-separated files (.csv), Microsoft Excel files (.xls, .xlsx), an OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods), Keyhole Markup Language (.kml) or data already in a Google Spreadsheet.</li></ul>1. Go to <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home">http://www.google.com/fusiontables/</a> and log into your Google Account. <br />2. Click the <b>New Table</b> button to get a drop-down menu and choose<b> Import Table</b>. <br />3. Specify the file you’d like to upload. For this example, I’m using a sample Google Spreadsheet of my nonprofit’s locations with a column for each type of additional information that I want to associate with the locations.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="207px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ccTSxLq-zj0NJE2eApvI8DUzFck9QspZ4zwuwyuG10YRnEjv4HIQw-6FqYqYBEYtMs-Tck18MMmJmgMguZdEevreRB_8gOBqUYDrlBkRU9L19bMtzGc" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>Once you’ve selected the file click <b>Next</b>. The next two steps allow you to select which columns you’d like to import and add attributes. Proceed through the steps and click <b>Finish</b>. <br />4. You will now see your data displayed as a table. </div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="191px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/IPQUEPs4N1Srfi8RKZcC8I_eZuvcIELOxydSCcHfUWvu-xtglc5O4KHqW9YqtB9-BfALZN-QtBbV2wWohpDoaUfk5gHlRVvqqGUmyjozrNs93kEL5eY" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>Fusion Tables tries to recognize columns with locations during import and automatically categorize them as location data. You can skip ahead to step 5 to try this out, but if for some reason Fusion Tables didn’t recognize the correct location column, you’ll need to set it manually. To set the locaiton column manually, click <b>Edit</b>, then <b>Modify columns</b>. Select the appropriate column and set type to <b>Location</b>. Save your changes.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="347px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/phklkh6nefBeZ3h7Lt082YuutzHi_fRKe3iPYN-CtciLQJvw5S2IPw6bq2-2iZlxkinPxKS2f62GLWxKhcbSneMP8lqgsl6vu1-BJi3GGbDYesoXUp8" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>5. You are now one step away from your map! Click the <b>Visualize</b> menu and select <b>Map</b>. Fusion Tables should now geocode the location information in the column you’ve specified and create your map.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="248px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oP0Gqr0DD7LShRE8ZK5cINT7sD_TCmPQzzaMBFCLJOOS6GLiXnnDkoodDY4Z9k0tuE3jrlcglrXvrgVMukeehic-QYEoQUvGLLpXN9lAQYEc1-kac5s" width="500px;" /></div> <br />6. Now the fun really begins. You can use the options above your map to <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_sample.html#custompopup">customize your info windows</a> and make them more appealing (add links, select which fields appear, etc.). You can make your info window content more rich by including <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_sample.html#displayimages">images</a>, videos, <a href="//www.google.com/support/fusiontables/bin/answer.py?answer=1011815">data charts</a> and more. Next you might want to configure your placemark style by changing their color or icon, or using one of the other style options. <br /><i>Note: If you have polygon or line data in a GIS shapefile or KML file, you can also add and style in Fusion Tables. Just import your KML file the same way you imported a spreadsheet, or use <a href="http://www.shpescape.com/">shapescape</a> to import a GIS shapefile.</i> <br />7. Once you are satisfied with your map, click <b>Get embeddable link</b> for the code to embed it in your organization’s website. <br /> <br />If you’d like step-by-step instructions, you can find them in the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_yourowndata.html">Google Earth Outreach "Fusion Mapper" tutorial</a>. Once you’ve mastered the basics, there are a many more things you can do with Fusion Tables. Check out the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontablestalks/stories">Google Fusion Tables Example Gallery</a> and the tutorials in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/fusiontables/">Fusion Tables Help Center</a> for inspiration and guidance. To add options for users to search your map or use a drop down menu to filter results on your map, check out the <a href="http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fusiontables/fusiontableslayer_builder.html">FusionTablesLayer Builder</a>. <br /> <br />I hope this Fusion Tables map primer will help get your mapping creative juices flowing! For more tutorials and resources, see the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach website</a>. <br /> <br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Google Earth Outreach Team</span></div> </script> <noscript> New to map-making with Google tools? <a href="http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-1.html">Last week</a> we focused on how you could get started by creating a map of your organization’s offices with <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mymaps.html">Google Maps My Places</a>. After walking through My Places, I mentioned <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html">Google Fusion Tables</a>, another powerful Google mapping tool. One of the many applications of this tool is that you can import a spreadsheet and turn it into a map for easy publishing on the web. Fusion Tables is especially useful to people who have more than just a handful of locations to plot on a map, or who want a more interactive map that allows users to filter locations or other complex tasks. <br /> <br />A great example of a nonprofit that benefits from using Fusion Tables is <a href="http://www.marinspace.com/">MarinSpace</a>, an organization dedicated to helping Marin County nonprofits improve the quality of their workspaces. MarinSpace regularly looks at nonprofits’ locations to understand where these organizations work in relation to each other. From mapping their locations, they can make co-locating suggestions and identify gaps in community services. They’ve even found that sometimes there are clusters of organizations that don’t realize they are a block away from each other and could be sharing knowledge and resources. Executive Director Shelley Hamilton had been using My Maps to map all this data. After learning about Fusion Tables at a <a href="http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html">Google Earth Outreach workshop</a> in February, Shelley started using it to map nonprofits and is enthusiastic about how easy it is to use: “Once you have your info in Fusion Tables, a couple of clicks and boom, there it is!”<div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="351px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/9HJzG1BKRX5bs4Uw3FumEDNNNwjj8R-KcQhThPFfwCpVUP4HZ5DFS8m_kR8j3foBgOkgTGGxFvlc1m6pe_IClqOOX49-MOaZySBf3Aoss_ABFyRG1Po" width="412px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.marinspace.com/nonprofits-in-marin-google-map/">Nonprofits in Marin Map</a> by<a href="http://www.marinspace.com/"> MarinSpace</a></div> <br />Who doesn’t like a little instant gratification? Let’s get started on our own map, shall we? <br /> <br />Before you start: <br /><ul><li>You’ll need to have a Google Account to use Fusion Tables, so <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home">create a free account</a> if you don’t have one.</li><li>Prepare a dataset with location information to import into Fusion Tables. You can use comma-separated files (.csv), Microsoft Excel files (.xls, .xlsx), an OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods), Keyhole Markup Language (.kml) or data already in a Google Spreadsheet.</li></ul>1. Go to <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home">http://www.google.com/fusiontables/</a> and log into your Google Account. <br />2. Click the <b>New Table</b> button to get a drop-down menu and choose<b> Import Table</b>. <br />3. Specify the file you’d like to upload. For this example, I’m using a sample Google Spreadsheet of my nonprofit’s locations with a column for each type of additional information that I want to associate with the locations.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="207px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ccTSxLq-zj0NJE2eApvI8DUzFck9QspZ4zwuwyuG10YRnEjv4HIQw-6FqYqYBEYtMs-Tck18MMmJmgMguZdEevreRB_8gOBqUYDrlBkRU9L19bMtzGc" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>Once you’ve selected the file click <b>Next</b>. The next two steps allow you to select which columns you’d like to import and add attributes. Proceed through the steps and click <b>Finish</b>. <br />4. You will now see your data displayed as a table. </div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="191px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/IPQUEPs4N1Srfi8RKZcC8I_eZuvcIELOxydSCcHfUWvu-xtglc5O4KHqW9YqtB9-BfALZN-QtBbV2wWohpDoaUfk5gHlRVvqqGUmyjozrNs93kEL5eY" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>Fusion Tables tries to recognize columns with locations during import and automatically categorize them as location data. You can skip ahead to step 5 to try this out, but if for some reason Fusion Tables didn’t recognize the correct location column, you’ll need to set it manually. To set the locaiton column manually, click <b>Edit</b>, then <b>Modify columns</b>. Select the appropriate column and set type to <b>Location</b>. Save your changes.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="347px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/phklkh6nefBeZ3h7Lt082YuutzHi_fRKe3iPYN-CtciLQJvw5S2IPw6bq2-2iZlxkinPxKS2f62GLWxKhcbSneMP8lqgsl6vu1-BJi3GGbDYesoXUp8" width="500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div>5. You are now one step away from your map! Click the <b>Visualize</b> menu and select <b>Map</b>. Fusion Tables should now geocode the location information in the column you’ve specified and create your map.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="248px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7172984085045755" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oP0Gqr0DD7LShRE8ZK5cINT7sD_TCmPQzzaMBFCLJOOS6GLiXnnDkoodDY4Z9k0tuE3jrlcglrXvrgVMukeehic-QYEoQUvGLLpXN9lAQYEc1-kac5s" width="500px;" /></div> <br />6. Now the fun really begins. You can use the options above your map to <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_sample.html#custompopup">customize your info windows</a> and make them more appealing (add links, select which fields appear, etc.). You can make your info window content more rich by including <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_sample.html#displayimages">images</a>, videos, <a href="//www.google.com/support/fusiontables/bin/answer.py?answer=1011815">data charts</a> and more. Next you might want to configure your placemark style by changing their color or icon, or using one of the other style options. <br /><i>Note: If you have polygon or line data in a GIS shapefile or KML file, you can also add and style in Fusion Tables. Just import your KML file the same way you imported a spreadsheet, or use <a href="http://www.shpescape.com/">shapescape</a> to import a GIS shapefile.</i> <br />7. Once you are satisfied with your map, click <b>Get embeddable link</b> for the code to embed it in your organization’s website. <br /> <br />If you’d like step-by-step instructions, you can find them in the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_fusion_yourowndata.html">Google Earth Outreach "Fusion Mapper" tutorial</a>. Once you’ve mastered the basics, there are a many more things you can do with Fusion Tables. Check out the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontablestalks/stories">Google Fusion Tables Example Gallery</a> and the tutorials in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/fusiontables/">Fusion Tables Help Center</a> for inspiration and guidance. To add options for users to search your map or use a drop down menu to filter results on your map, check out the <a href="http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fusiontables/fusiontableslayer_builder.html">FusionTablesLayer Builder</a>. <br /> <br />I hope this Fusion Tables map primer will help get your mapping creative juices flowing! For more tutorials and resources, see the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach website</a>. <br /> <br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Google Earth Outreach Team</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:An Introduction To Map-Making, Part 2&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/06/introduction-to-map-making-part-2.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Earth' rel='tag'> Google Earth </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Outreach' rel='tag'> Google Earth Outreach </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Fusion%20Tables' rel='tag'> Google Fusion Tables </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Maps' rel='tag'> Google Maps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6425454841189597408' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Apps Highlights'> Google Apps Highlights </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, May 4, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <i>(Cross-posted from <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights-4292011.html">the Official Google Blog</a>) <br /></i> <br />In the last couple of weeks, we’ve helped you personalize Gmail in new ways, made our applications speedier to use, brought text recognition and editing powers to Android phones, and given you a glimpse into the inner workings of a Google data center. <br /> <br /><b>Customize Gmail with a favorite photo</b> <br />For a long while, Gmail has had themes so your inbox can reflect a bit of your personality. Now, you can <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/custom-background-image-themes.html">set Gmail’s background</a> to a photo from your computer or Picasa Web Albums. So if Gmail’s standard theme choices don’t quite float your boat, now we’re sure you can create a theme you’ll love. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaUS1oGtb77sYT_P2jKnu4BPYwfnRvFH0lktOTN8J1tmbgz6STqN9rmaafpr5OTZXPCT06vivhTC1_0gLbE5vy4Ki6gqR8RRI8vr9vxFe89fNB01Xza1ZiPDLph5YxY8t85AtePZ_Ews/s1600/gmail+photo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaUS1oGtb77sYT_P2jKnu4BPYwfnRvFH0lktOTN8J1tmbgz6STqN9rmaafpr5OTZXPCT06vivhTC1_0gLbE5vy4Ki6gqR8RRI8vr9vxFe89fNB01Xza1ZiPDLph5YxY8t85AtePZ_Ews/+photo.png" width="500" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Faster multitasking in Gmail with the Background Send Lab</b> <br />Features like nearly-instant search and integrated instant messaging help you save time in your inbox, but we’re always looking for new ways to speed up your experience in Gmail. On Monday we released a new feature in Labs called <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-in-labs-background-send.html">Background Send</a> that can shave off a few seconds each time you hit “Send.” With this feature enabled, you can start working with other messages while your outgoing message is processed in the background without slowing you down. Give it a try from the Labs tab of Gmail Settings. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OjmLm5U1MSezdvzQRer3rfdJNe4_cEAlHIq14gWFBupeDZFwhAl-dUEqkpKpuWXJKLWrGoThFajMGYAZUAieVbWd38UWR-GLJe35oa3JCdoea8o1SIJOmF4JInwwH1vkZrbbI8Kg-G0/s1600/background+send.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OjmLm5U1MSezdvzQRer3rfdJNe4_cEAlHIq14gWFBupeDZFwhAl-dUEqkpKpuWXJKLWrGoThFajMGYAZUAieVbWd38UWR-GLJe35oa3JCdoea8o1SIJOmF4JInwwH1vkZrbbI8Kg-G0/+send.png" width="500" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Streamlined file uploads in Google Docs</b> <br />On Monday, we sped up the Google Docs experience with <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/simpler-file-upload-in-google-docs.html">improvements to file uploads</a>. Now you can upload a whole folder at once, and if you use Chrome, Safari or Firefox, you can even drag and drop files from your desktop into the documents list or specific collections. You'll also see an upload progress window right in the documents list. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOduGERzTclh22plE2nzx1m3uis6b96BeY-F-m5iW-IKeSJJzLk8k-rhbbkDUfaE-Oq8XMixKc3MLHZTGUJBGNah6-ZbnobKOc4xqld6YEBZF9ZSezHRkjdCXossMk9S2YzHKM_VMy0/s1600/file+uploads.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOduGERzTclh22plE2nzx1m3uis6b96BeY-F-m5iW-IKeSJJzLk8k-rhbbkDUfaE-Oq8XMixKc3MLHZTGUJBGNah6-ZbnobKOc4xqld6YEBZF9ZSezHRkjdCXossMk9S2YzHKM_VMy0/s400/file+uploads.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><b>New Google Docs app for Android</b><div>Thanks to a <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html">brand new Google Docs app</a> for Android, it’s easier to browse, search, edit and share your documents right from your mobile phone. You can even create new documents by snapping a picture of text with your phone’s camera, and thanks to Google Docs’ optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities, words in the image are converted to text that you can continue editing from your phone or computer. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Urh_x-0eLU9tCNIP0GDAJbEa4gVcOOXUmCGdW55R4VcUAVuuuAluBOs-O1bnIAuSsC8YkIrDWswU56W1xhMttwiQUZ4UAtc5LgXOSQFcqRkLuT8LYE5uYvBZ-tMNLvOYaY9-tUTvpEw/s1600/docs+app.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Urh_x-0eLU9tCNIP0GDAJbEa4gVcOOXUmCGdW55R4VcUAVuuuAluBOs-O1bnIAuSsC8YkIrDWswU56W1xhMttwiQUZ4UAtc5LgXOSQFcqRkLuT8LYE5uYvBZ-tMNLvOYaY9-tUTvpEw/+app.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>100 new fonts in Google Sites</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">With more design choices in Google Sites, you can create better looking sites that match the look and feel you want to achieve. This Wednesday, we added <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-sites-brings-you-over-100-new.html">100 new fonts</a> to the text formatting options in Google Sites, so it’s easier to make more personalized pages for your organization, project, classroom or business.</div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSNphJQB-4_48EgaUIa6TUfMCjGN1V2eIoi_oe9pzGu1jeK0cLMruzVd82TZtvuEkiDzJ9hCxM00t2pMbpncw2aIiIHOXmS576JdVjGeKMuLOgP4G-jI5Q0Plf7m-rKU-HCgsKEIL4zs/s1600/100+fonts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSNphJQB-4_48EgaUIa6TUfMCjGN1V2eIoi_oe9pzGu1jeK0cLMruzVd82TZtvuEkiDzJ9hCxM00t2pMbpncw2aIiIHOXmS576JdVjGeKMuLOgP4G-jI5Q0Plf7m-rKU-HCgsKEIL4zs/+fonts.png" width="450" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Get a sneak peek into a Google data center</b> <br />Businesses, schools and individuals considering Google Apps often want to learn more about the technology and procedures in our data centers designed to help keep your data safe, secure and available whenever you want it. Since we can’t invite everyone to tour one of our data centers, we thought we’d <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/security-first-security-and-data.html">pull the curtain</a> back with an in-depth video: <br /> <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1SCZzgfdTBo" width="560"></iframe> <br /> <br /><b>Who’s gone Google?</b><div>A hearty welcome goes out to over 50,000 businesses, schools and organizations that have switched to Google Apps in the last two weeks. Several have shared their stories on the Google Enterprise Blog, so you can learn about how <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/cinram-coordinates-across-continents.html">Cinram</a> has improved communication and collaboration across 20 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe, how <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/luxury-real-estate-company-improves.html">Gibson Sotheby's International Realty</a> is empowering hundreds of mobile workers like never before, and how the states of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/from-ocean-state-to-show-me-state-2.html">Rhode Island and Missouri</a> are making Google Apps available to more than a million students and 100,000 staff members. <br /> <br />I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out the <a href="http://googleapps.blogspot.com/">Google Apps Blog</a>. <br /> <br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager</span></div></div> </script> <noscript> <i>(Cross-posted from <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights-4292011.html">the Official Google Blog</a>) <br /></i> <br />In the last couple of weeks, we’ve helped you personalize Gmail in new ways, made our applications speedier to use, brought text recognition and editing powers to Android phones, and given you a glimpse into the inner workings of a Google data center. <br /> <br /><b>Customize Gmail with a favorite photo</b> <br />For a long while, Gmail has had themes so your inbox can reflect a bit of your personality. Now, you can <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/custom-background-image-themes.html">set Gmail’s background</a> to a photo from your computer or Picasa Web Albums. So if Gmail’s standard theme choices don’t quite float your boat, now we’re sure you can create a theme you’ll love. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaUS1oGtb77sYT_P2jKnu4BPYwfnRvFH0lktOTN8J1tmbgz6STqN9rmaafpr5OTZXPCT06vivhTC1_0gLbE5vy4Ki6gqR8RRI8vr9vxFe89fNB01Xza1ZiPDLph5YxY8t85AtePZ_Ews/s1600/gmail+photo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaUS1oGtb77sYT_P2jKnu4BPYwfnRvFH0lktOTN8J1tmbgz6STqN9rmaafpr5OTZXPCT06vivhTC1_0gLbE5vy4Ki6gqR8RRI8vr9vxFe89fNB01Xza1ZiPDLph5YxY8t85AtePZ_Ews/+photo.png" width="500" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Faster multitasking in Gmail with the Background Send Lab</b> <br />Features like nearly-instant search and integrated instant messaging help you save time in your inbox, but we’re always looking for new ways to speed up your experience in Gmail. On Monday we released a new feature in Labs called <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-in-labs-background-send.html">Background Send</a> that can shave off a few seconds each time you hit “Send.” With this feature enabled, you can start working with other messages while your outgoing message is processed in the background without slowing you down. Give it a try from the Labs tab of Gmail Settings. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OjmLm5U1MSezdvzQRer3rfdJNe4_cEAlHIq14gWFBupeDZFwhAl-dUEqkpKpuWXJKLWrGoThFajMGYAZUAieVbWd38UWR-GLJe35oa3JCdoea8o1SIJOmF4JInwwH1vkZrbbI8Kg-G0/s1600/background+send.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OjmLm5U1MSezdvzQRer3rfdJNe4_cEAlHIq14gWFBupeDZFwhAl-dUEqkpKpuWXJKLWrGoThFajMGYAZUAieVbWd38UWR-GLJe35oa3JCdoea8o1SIJOmF4JInwwH1vkZrbbI8Kg-G0/+send.png" width="500" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Streamlined file uploads in Google Docs</b> <br />On Monday, we sped up the Google Docs experience with <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/simpler-file-upload-in-google-docs.html">improvements to file uploads</a>. Now you can upload a whole folder at once, and if you use Chrome, Safari or Firefox, you can even drag and drop files from your desktop into the documents list or specific collections. You'll also see an upload progress window right in the documents list. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOduGERzTclh22plE2nzx1m3uis6b96BeY-F-m5iW-IKeSJJzLk8k-rhbbkDUfaE-Oq8XMixKc3MLHZTGUJBGNah6-ZbnobKOc4xqld6YEBZF9ZSezHRkjdCXossMk9S2YzHKM_VMy0/s1600/file+uploads.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOduGERzTclh22plE2nzx1m3uis6b96BeY-F-m5iW-IKeSJJzLk8k-rhbbkDUfaE-Oq8XMixKc3MLHZTGUJBGNah6-ZbnobKOc4xqld6YEBZF9ZSezHRkjdCXossMk9S2YzHKM_VMy0/s400/file+uploads.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><b>New Google Docs app for Android</b><div>Thanks to a <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-new-google-docs-app-for.html">brand new Google Docs app</a> for Android, it’s easier to browse, search, edit and share your documents right from your mobile phone. You can even create new documents by snapping a picture of text with your phone’s camera, and thanks to Google Docs’ optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities, words in the image are converted to text that you can continue editing from your phone or computer. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Urh_x-0eLU9tCNIP0GDAJbEa4gVcOOXUmCGdW55R4VcUAVuuuAluBOs-O1bnIAuSsC8YkIrDWswU56W1xhMttwiQUZ4UAtc5LgXOSQFcqRkLuT8LYE5uYvBZ-tMNLvOYaY9-tUTvpEw/s1600/docs+app.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Urh_x-0eLU9tCNIP0GDAJbEa4gVcOOXUmCGdW55R4VcUAVuuuAluBOs-O1bnIAuSsC8YkIrDWswU56W1xhMttwiQUZ4UAtc5LgXOSQFcqRkLuT8LYE5uYvBZ-tMNLvOYaY9-tUTvpEw/+app.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>100 new fonts in Google Sites</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">With more design choices in Google Sites, you can create better looking sites that match the look and feel you want to achieve. This Wednesday, we added <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-sites-brings-you-over-100-new.html">100 new fonts</a> to the text formatting options in Google Sites, so it’s easier to make more personalized pages for your organization, project, classroom or business.</div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSNphJQB-4_48EgaUIa6TUfMCjGN1V2eIoi_oe9pzGu1jeK0cLMruzVd82TZtvuEkiDzJ9hCxM00t2pMbpncw2aIiIHOXmS576JdVjGeKMuLOgP4G-jI5Q0Plf7m-rKU-HCgsKEIL4zs/s1600/100+fonts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSNphJQB-4_48EgaUIa6TUfMCjGN1V2eIoi_oe9pzGu1jeK0cLMruzVd82TZtvuEkiDzJ9hCxM00t2pMbpncw2aIiIHOXmS576JdVjGeKMuLOgP4G-jI5Q0Plf7m-rKU-HCgsKEIL4zs/+fonts.png" width="450" /></a></div> <br /> <br /><b>Get a sneak peek into a Google data center</b> <br />Businesses, schools and individuals considering Google Apps often want to learn more about the technology and procedures in our data centers designed to help keep your data safe, secure and available whenever you want it. Since we can’t invite everyone to tour one of our data centers, we thought we’d <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/security-first-security-and-data.html">pull the curtain</a> back with an in-depth video: <br /> <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1SCZzgfdTBo" width="560"></iframe> <br /> <br /><b>Who’s gone Google?</b><div>A hearty welcome goes out to over 50,000 businesses, schools and organizations that have switched to Google Apps in the last two weeks. Several have shared their stories on the Google Enterprise Blog, so you can learn about how <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/cinram-coordinates-across-continents.html">Cinram</a> has improved communication and collaboration across 20 manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe, how <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/luxury-real-estate-company-improves.html">Gibson Sotheby's International Realty</a> is empowering hundreds of mobile workers like never before, and how the states of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/from-ocean-state-to-show-me-state-2.html">Rhode Island and Missouri</a> are making Google Apps available to more than a million students and 100,000 staff members. <br /> <br />I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out the <a href="http://googleapps.blogspot.com/">Google Apps Blog</a>. <br /> <br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager</span></div></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Google Apps Highlights&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-apps-highlights.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Highlights' rel='tag'> Google Apps Highlights </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='990219702011142169' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html' itemprop='url' title='Getting Started With Google Places'> Getting Started With Google Places </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, April 26, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.17233636765740812" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">More and more people are searching for businesses and organizations (like yours!) on <a href="//maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a>, so it’s important to take a few minutes to customize how your nonprofit is listed... using </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//www.google.com/places/">Google Places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">!</span></span></div><span class="post-author"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Your organization’s Google Places page is its listing where you can correct basic information, such as the physical address, website, or email of your organization. You can </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><i>also </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">enhance your Google Places page by adding images and videos of the work you do, which can allow viewers to link to your photo albums and your <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">YouTube Nonprofit Channel</a>. You can even encourage viewers to “Join Now!” or “Donate Now!” and link to your website to drive membership, donations, or to guide people on how they can help your cause.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For example, <a href="http://www.greeninfo.org/">GreenInfo Network</a>, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, has added images of the maps they have created for their nonprofit partners</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.02714654430747032" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> to <a href="//maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=15253140980422913749">their Google Places page</a>:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="//maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=15253140980422913749" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600305317529713490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwayaBjMzmVTYafMgWak412W6u1XeK9wBscOX14Wtt5FWiC5Tm6LZjgB6_fs9DU6o3a6hAZCQdQmMiBC2taK3XWGqPuXQqFyw2LzKj03_W9BmNM7Cs06cNE2ZobSPWkYdrrL38Nem8slg/s320/g4np_maps1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px; " /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Here’s how </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">you </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">can get started:</span><ol style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Go to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//google.com/places">google.com/places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, and click </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“Get Started”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and then </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“List your business”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. Another way is to search for your nonprofit on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, click on the result, and then click on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“Business Owner?”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You may need to verify that you </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">are,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> in fact, the owner, and this can be checked with either a phone call or a snail-mail postcard to the organization's address. Once verified, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">you can start enhancing the Places page for your organization.</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Add or edit (if necessary) the physical location of your organization. You can also move the marker to the correct location on the map. (Remember: these aren't individual projects or field locations where you work; this is the location of your organization’s headquarters or regional branches.)</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Add photos, images, and videos of the work that you do. If applicable, add a description, encouraging people to “Join Now!” or “Donate Now!” with a link to your website.</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Confirm the other details for your listing, make any changes as necessary, and click “Submit”.</span></li></ol><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">That’s all there is to it! Google Places is available in <a href="//www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?answer=168339">numerous countries</a>, and is free, so get started now at </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//google.com/places">google.com/places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">! Google Places is even available on your <a href="//www.google.com/mobile/places/">Android or iPhone device</a>, so people can find your nonprofit on-the-go.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">After you’ve updated the Places page for your organization, do you feel ready to get creative with more mapmaking? You can build custom maps of your work with our Google Maps and Google Earth </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html">tutorials</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, such as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mymaps.html">Creating Maps using My Maps</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - specifically designed for nonprofits!</span></span></span><div><div><span class="post-author"><br /></span></div><div><span class="post-author"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></span>Posted by Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Google Earth Outreach Team</span></div></div> </script> <noscript> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.17233636765740812" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">More and more people are searching for businesses and organizations (like yours!) on <a href="//maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a>, so it’s important to take a few minutes to customize how your nonprofit is listed... using </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//www.google.com/places/">Google Places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">!</span></span></div><span class="post-author"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Your organization’s Google Places page is its listing where you can correct basic information, such as the physical address, website, or email of your organization. You can </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><i>also </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">enhance your Google Places page by adding images and videos of the work you do, which can allow viewers to link to your photo albums and your <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">YouTube Nonprofit Channel</a>. You can even encourage viewers to “Join Now!” or “Donate Now!” and link to your website to drive membership, donations, or to guide people on how they can help your cause.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For example, <a href="http://www.greeninfo.org/">GreenInfo Network</a>, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, has added images of the maps they have created for their nonprofit partners</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.02714654430747032" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> to <a href="//maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=15253140980422913749">their Google Places page</a>:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="//maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=15253140980422913749" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600305317529713490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwayaBjMzmVTYafMgWak412W6u1XeK9wBscOX14Wtt5FWiC5Tm6LZjgB6_fs9DU6o3a6hAZCQdQmMiBC2taK3XWGqPuXQqFyw2LzKj03_W9BmNM7Cs06cNE2ZobSPWkYdrrL38Nem8slg/s320/g4np_maps1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px; " /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Here’s how </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">you </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">can get started:</span><ol style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Go to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//google.com/places">google.com/places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, and click </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“Get Started”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and then </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“List your business”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. Another way is to search for your nonprofit on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, click on the result, and then click on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">“Business Owner?”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You may need to verify that you </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">are,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> in fact, the owner, and this can be checked with either a phone call or a snail-mail postcard to the organization's address. Once verified, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">you can start enhancing the Places page for your organization.</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Add or edit (if necessary) the physical location of your organization. You can also move the marker to the correct location on the map. (Remember: these aren't individual projects or field locations where you work; this is the location of your organization’s headquarters or regional branches.)</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Add photos, images, and videos of the work that you do. If applicable, add a description, encouraging people to “Join Now!” or “Donate Now!” with a link to your website.</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Confirm the other details for your listing, make any changes as necessary, and click “Submit”.</span></li></ol><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">That’s all there is to it! Google Places is available in <a href="//www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?answer=168339">numerous countries</a>, and is free, so get started now at </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="//google.com/places">google.com/places</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">! Google Places is even available on your <a href="//www.google.com/mobile/places/">Android or iPhone device</a>, so people can find your nonprofit on-the-go.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">After you’ve updated the Places page for your organization, do you feel ready to get creative with more mapmaking? You can build custom maps of your work with our Google Maps and Google Earth </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html">tutorials</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, such as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_mymaps.html">Creating Maps using My Maps</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - specifically designed for nonprofits!</span></span></span><div><div><span class="post-author"><br /></span></div><div><span class="post-author"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></span>Posted by Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Google Earth Outreach Team</span></div></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Getting Started With Google Places&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/put-your-nonprofit-on-map.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Outreach' rel='tag'> Google Earth Outreach </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3369622343662157387' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Apps Highlights'> Google Apps Highlights </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, April 19, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><i>Cross posted on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights-4152011.html">The Official Google Blog.</a></i></div><div> <br /></div>In the last few weeks we’ve improved Google Apps with easier email snafu avoidance, better document and spreadsheet printing, stronger business security features for Android and more. The pace of entire organizations switching to Google Apps also continued to build, and many have shared their stories about moving to the cloud. <br /> <br /><b>Recipient suggestion features graduate from Gmail Labs</b> <br />We’ve all made the embarrassing mistake of forgetting to add an important email recipient, or even worse, sending an email to the wrong person with a similar name as someone else. To help you avoid such a digital faux pas, we experimented with Gmail Labs features that could notify you while drafting a message if it appeared you had addressed your message incorrectly. We heard lots of positive feedback about these Labs, so we rolled out <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html">recipient suggestion features</a> for all Gmail users. Keep an eye out for the tips that show up beneath the address box! <br /> <br /><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="216px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7835277933627367" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ejihkgu5hWeyTrGvBcfuHroe0hnGVGbb5MtNvGZpX5TuGdzhlEVcP7oRoXD_qjrqq2_18AQ0wHve3TB-XVZSCJlW5TiTzQKycvzs44WUbIs4TeETGgbn3I3S-PjViFfn" width="525px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div><b>Pagination and better printing for documents</b> <br />Google Docs speeds up collaboration right in the browser between classmates and colleagues, but people often want to see how documents will look on paper before actually printing. Last Tuesday we advanced Google Docs another notch by <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/pagination-comes-to-google-docs.html">adding pagination</a>—the ability to see where page breaks fall. We also made document printing a whole lot better on Chrome. Printing is now a simpler operation right from the browser’s “File” menu, and what you see in your browser is exactly what you’ll get on paper. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLMGBeoQDjdZ8fDMXcuP1nbdBcrI268nInTrcG0vYthQbIRt_ofmJVgicwaa7jY66C1l3JNFEUf4CQTU7xcwb__VmgXdhePXySGUVc3cYPbwma8G6KlBmJL-kWxjNyZPY7cD13WaRY4w/" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" > <br /></span><b>Improvements to spreadsheet printing, too</b> <br />As of last Monday, you can now <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/improved-printing-in-spreadsheets.html">print spreadsheets from your mobile phone</a> with Cloud Print, building on the <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/01/cloud-printing-on-go.html">mobile document and email printing</a> capabilities we announced earlier this year. You can print from most mobile browsers that support HTML5 to any <a href="//www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/index.html">cloud-connected printer.</a> We also made improvements to spreadsheet printing from desktop browsers, with new options for printing spreadsheet titles, sheet names and page numbers. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJQRcXkDSbxx0c9tLG8hy_K4qmRyOlgSvCko-nLcYRNtdFfBDO0Lpa3oeWgh0LHd7uTb7dNGJyinbZcf5sXEd1fPCytERHFB8HTkdPiHY2w2zTcrKgnagutaCq2LNlbibyPteA4bfSaY/s1600/print+settings_pic+3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJQRcXkDSbxx0c9tLG8hy_K4qmRyOlgSvCko-nLcYRNtdFfBDO0Lpa3oeWgh0LHd7uTb7dNGJyinbZcf5sXEd1fPCytERHFB8HTkdPiHY2w2zTcrKgnagutaCq2LNlbibyPteA4bfSaY/+settings_pic+3.png" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"> <br /><b>Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office interface improvements</b> <br />If your school or business wants some of Google Docs’ collaboration magic in familiar Microsoft Office software without upgrading Office or deploying SharePoint®, then we think you’ll like Google Cloud Connect. People can work together on the same files at the same time in Word, PowerPoint® and Excel® without the agony of attachments. We recently added 38 new language interfaces and a top feature request: the ability to <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/38-more-languages-and-minimize-toolbar.html">minimize the Google Cloud Connect toolbar.</a> <br /> <br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibp1E5mXa1WogHk-FuCXulEYCOJ8I7mV-nNqAejsD2x-iMk8d9fpH8X7H8xlHZXxOpFtbjrZ2wHbU2XT5dVMokDXwKc3YW0xp96DgNvHNzploUOn14oOz-nPznKFr93HYgWpeFreBWk2k/s1600/cloud+connect_pic4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibp1E5mXa1WogHk-FuCXulEYCOJ8I7mV-nNqAejsD2x-iMk8d9fpH8X7H8xlHZXxOpFtbjrZ2wHbU2XT5dVMokDXwKc3YW0xp96DgNvHNzploUOn14oOz-nPznKFr93HYgWpeFreBWk2k/+connect_pic4.png" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"> <br /><b>Better Android security and productivity for businesses</b> <br />We recently treated our business and education customers to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/putting-android-to-work-for-your.html">three new Android features:</a> storage encryption for Android 3.0+ devices, a streamlined contacts experience that makes it faster to find and connect with people in your organization and the ability for users to locate and secure lost or stolen Android 2.2+ devices without burdening IT administrators. <br /> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/s1600/lost+device_pic5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/+device_pic5.jpeg" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/s1600/lost+device_pic5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLMGBeoQDjdZ8fDMXcuP1nbdBcrI268nInTrcG0vYthQbIRt_ofmJVgicwaa7jY66C1l3JNFEUf4CQTU7xcwb__VmgXdhePXySGUVc3cYPbwma8G6KlBmJL-kWxjNyZPY7cD13WaRY4w/s1600/pagination_pic2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "></a><span class="Apple-style-span" > <br /></span><b>Who's gone Google?</b> <br />Since our last update here, over 60,000 businesses have moved to Google Apps. We’ve profiled quite a few on the Google Enterprise Blog recently, including <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-boxx-group-builds.html">Boxx Group,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-south-carolina.html">South Carolina REALTORS,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-just-salad.html">Just Salad,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-3tailer-relies-on.html">3Tailer,</a> and our favorite switch story of all, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/contoso-has-gone-google.html">Contoso.</a> <br /> <br />Thousands of schools, nonprofits and other organizations made the move as well. Welcome to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-boise-state.html">Boise State University,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-at-edina-public.html">Edina Public Schools,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-essec-business.html">ESSEC Business School,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-monash-university.html">Monash University,</a><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-oakwood-junior.html"> Oakwood Junior School,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/georgia-department-of-corrections.html">the Georgia Department of Corrections</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-phoenix-of-new.html">The Phoenix of New Orleans</a>. <br /> <br />I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out <a href="http://googleapps.blogspot.com/">the Google Apps Blog.</a> <br /> <br />Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager</div> </script> <noscript> <div><i>Cross posted on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights-4152011.html">The Official Google Blog.</a></i></div><div> <br /></div>In the last few weeks we’ve improved Google Apps with easier email snafu avoidance, better document and spreadsheet printing, stronger business security features for Android and more. The pace of entire organizations switching to Google Apps also continued to build, and many have shared their stories about moving to the cloud. <br /> <br /><b>Recipient suggestion features graduate from Gmail Labs</b> <br />We’ve all made the embarrassing mistake of forgetting to add an important email recipient, or even worse, sending an email to the wrong person with a similar name as someone else. To help you avoid such a digital faux pas, we experimented with Gmail Labs features that could notify you while drafting a message if it appeared you had addressed your message incorrectly. We heard lots of positive feedback about these Labs, so we rolled out <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html">recipient suggestion features</a> for all Gmail users. Keep an eye out for the tips that show up beneath the address box! <br /> <br /><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="216px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7835277933627367" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ejihkgu5hWeyTrGvBcfuHroe0hnGVGbb5MtNvGZpX5TuGdzhlEVcP7oRoXD_qjrqq2_18AQ0wHve3TB-XVZSCJlW5TiTzQKycvzs44WUbIs4TeETGgbn3I3S-PjViFfn" width="525px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <br /></div><b>Pagination and better printing for documents</b> <br />Google Docs speeds up collaboration right in the browser between classmates and colleagues, but people often want to see how documents will look on paper before actually printing. Last Tuesday we advanced Google Docs another notch by <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/pagination-comes-to-google-docs.html">adding pagination</a>—the ability to see where page breaks fall. We also made document printing a whole lot better on Chrome. Printing is now a simpler operation right from the browser’s “File” menu, and what you see in your browser is exactly what you’ll get on paper. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLMGBeoQDjdZ8fDMXcuP1nbdBcrI268nInTrcG0vYthQbIRt_ofmJVgicwaa7jY66C1l3JNFEUf4CQTU7xcwb__VmgXdhePXySGUVc3cYPbwma8G6KlBmJL-kWxjNyZPY7cD13WaRY4w/" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" > <br /></span><b>Improvements to spreadsheet printing, too</b> <br />As of last Monday, you can now <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/improved-printing-in-spreadsheets.html">print spreadsheets from your mobile phone</a> with Cloud Print, building on the <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/01/cloud-printing-on-go.html">mobile document and email printing</a> capabilities we announced earlier this year. You can print from most mobile browsers that support HTML5 to any <a href="//www.google.com/landing/cloudprint/index.html">cloud-connected printer.</a> We also made improvements to spreadsheet printing from desktop browsers, with new options for printing spreadsheet titles, sheet names and page numbers. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJQRcXkDSbxx0c9tLG8hy_K4qmRyOlgSvCko-nLcYRNtdFfBDO0Lpa3oeWgh0LHd7uTb7dNGJyinbZcf5sXEd1fPCytERHFB8HTkdPiHY2w2zTcrKgnagutaCq2LNlbibyPteA4bfSaY/s1600/print+settings_pic+3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJQRcXkDSbxx0c9tLG8hy_K4qmRyOlgSvCko-nLcYRNtdFfBDO0Lpa3oeWgh0LHd7uTb7dNGJyinbZcf5sXEd1fPCytERHFB8HTkdPiHY2w2zTcrKgnagutaCq2LNlbibyPteA4bfSaY/+settings_pic+3.png" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"> <br /><b>Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office interface improvements</b> <br />If your school or business wants some of Google Docs’ collaboration magic in familiar Microsoft Office software without upgrading Office or deploying SharePoint®, then we think you’ll like Google Cloud Connect. People can work together on the same files at the same time in Word, PowerPoint® and Excel® without the agony of attachments. We recently added 38 new language interfaces and a top feature request: the ability to <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/38-more-languages-and-minimize-toolbar.html">minimize the Google Cloud Connect toolbar.</a> <br /> <br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibp1E5mXa1WogHk-FuCXulEYCOJ8I7mV-nNqAejsD2x-iMk8d9fpH8X7H8xlHZXxOpFtbjrZ2wHbU2XT5dVMokDXwKc3YW0xp96DgNvHNzploUOn14oOz-nPznKFr93HYgWpeFreBWk2k/s1600/cloud+connect_pic4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibp1E5mXa1WogHk-FuCXulEYCOJ8I7mV-nNqAejsD2x-iMk8d9fpH8X7H8xlHZXxOpFtbjrZ2wHbU2XT5dVMokDXwKc3YW0xp96DgNvHNzploUOn14oOz-nPznKFr93HYgWpeFreBWk2k/+connect_pic4.png" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"> <br /><b>Better Android security and productivity for businesses</b> <br />We recently treated our business and education customers to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/putting-android-to-work-for-your.html">three new Android features:</a> storage encryption for Android 3.0+ devices, a streamlined contacts experience that makes it faster to find and connect with people in your organization and the ability for users to locate and secure lost or stolen Android 2.2+ devices without burdening IT administrators. <br /> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/s1600/lost+device_pic5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/+device_pic5.jpeg" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " width="500" /></a></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWkCpvdhyphenhyphenYdZ9uH1sMc1lL8ZwAL3YmQINAUpyhrNlvzfvd21lDTtQhjB1_rz_-ifKWQ0_VkN_vaRTRVtlPEnT3DEbUrKrfunJmseR9Y75FjQ9ZUV0RDuHNNKHhWsnm3ePJx93-XByJXw/s1600/lost+device_pic5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLMGBeoQDjdZ8fDMXcuP1nbdBcrI268nInTrcG0vYthQbIRt_ofmJVgicwaa7jY66C1l3JNFEUf4CQTU7xcwb__VmgXdhePXySGUVc3cYPbwma8G6KlBmJL-kWxjNyZPY7cD13WaRY4w/s1600/pagination_pic2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "></a><span class="Apple-style-span" > <br /></span><b>Who's gone Google?</b> <br />Since our last update here, over 60,000 businesses have moved to Google Apps. We’ve profiled quite a few on the Google Enterprise Blog recently, including <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-boxx-group-builds.html">Boxx Group,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-south-carolina.html">South Carolina REALTORS,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-just-salad.html">Just Salad,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-3tailer-relies-on.html">3Tailer,</a> and our favorite switch story of all, <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/contoso-has-gone-google.html">Contoso.</a> <br /> <br />Thousands of schools, nonprofits and other organizations made the move as well. Welcome to <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-boise-state.html">Boise State University,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-at-edina-public.html">Edina Public Schools,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-essec-business.html">ESSEC Business School,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-monash-university.html">Monash University,</a><a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-oakwood-junior.html"> Oakwood Junior School,</a> <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/georgia-department-of-corrections.html">the Georgia Department of Corrections</a> and <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/our-gone-google-story-phoenix-of-new.html">The Phoenix of New Orleans</a>. <br /> <br />I hope these product updates and customer stories help you and your organization get even more from Google Apps. For more details and the latest news, check out <a href="http://googleapps.blogspot.com/">the Google Apps Blog.</a> <br /> <br />Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Google Apps Highlights&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-apps-highlights.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Highlights' rel='tag'> Google Apps Highlights </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='696521424010549665' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html' itemprop='url' title='YouTube Good Work Helps Non-Profits Find The Video Help They Need'> YouTube Good Work Helps Non-Profits Find The Video Help They Need </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, March 24, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> We know that finding the funding and resources to create compelling video can be difficult. That’s why YouTube is introducing “Good Work,” a program in partnership with the Cannes Advertising Festival.<br /><br />Through <a href="//www.youtube.com/goodwork">Good Work</a>, YouTube is matching nonprofits with the best ad professionals in the world, and asking these creative professionals to make videos for nonprofits. <br /><br />The best videos, as selected by an esteemed judging panel of ad executives and NGO sector leaders, will be featured at a showcase at the Cannes Advertising Festival in June and on the YouTube homepage, providing exposure for both the video creators and the nonprofits.<br /><br />Nonprofits are encouraged to participate, but you must have nonprofit status issued by your government and have a YouTube channel. To get started, just fill out the brief questionnaire below at http://www.youtube.com/goodwork.<br /><br />The platform is also open to creative executives to find and select a nonprofit they want to work with, based on the information you provide. If they choose your organization, you’ll get an email from them, and you can work together to achieve your video goals.<br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Ramya Raghavan, YouTube Team</span> </script> <noscript> We know that finding the funding and resources to create compelling video can be difficult. That’s why YouTube is introducing “Good Work,” a program in partnership with the Cannes Advertising Festival.<br /><br />Through <a href="//www.youtube.com/goodwork">Good Work</a>, YouTube is matching nonprofits with the best ad professionals in the world, and asking these creative professionals to make videos for nonprofits. <br /><br />The best videos, as selected by an esteemed judging panel of ad executives and NGO sector leaders, will be featured at a showcase at the Cannes Advertising Festival in June and on the YouTube homepage, providing exposure for both the video creators and the nonprofits.<br /><br />Nonprofits are encouraged to participate, but you must have nonprofit status issued by your government and have a YouTube channel. To get started, just fill out the brief questionnaire below at http://www.youtube.com/goodwork.<br /><br />The platform is also open to creative executives to find and select a nonprofit they want to work with, based on the information you provide. If they choose your organization, you’ll get an email from them, and you can work together to achieve your video goals.<br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Ramya Raghavan, YouTube Team</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:YouTube Good Work Helps Non-Profits Find The Video Help They Need&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youtube-good-work-helps-non-profits.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/YouTube' rel='tag'> YouTube </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5726344069070633416' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html' itemprop='url' title='You’re changing the world. We want to help.'> You’re changing the world. We want to help. </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, March 16, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/">Official Google Blog</a>)</i></div><div><br /></div>One of the greatest things about my job is hearing how terrific organizations are using technology to help their cause. Today I've had a chance to talk with Direct Relief International <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlefornonprofits#p/a/u/2/szpuabuEo7Q">who raised more than $1 million</a> using Google AdWords, Samasource <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlefornonprofits#p/a/u/1/keLEiKB7UO8">who saved tens of thousands of dollars</a> using Google Apps and the Natural Resource Defense Council <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCL-zLOK-CE&feature=relmfu">who earned 100,000 views</a> from one video on their YouTube channel with no paid advertising. Listening to these stories and several like them, we realized that we had an opportunity to greatly increase the number of nonprofits we could assist. With today’s launch of the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits">Google for Nonprofits</a> program, which provides exclusive <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/allproducts.html">product offerings</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/resources.html">enhanced online resources</a>, we’ll be able to help U.S.-based nonprofits reach more donors, improve operations and raise awareness for their cause.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pHEyxJZ8KcM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />If you work for a nonprofit, this program provides you with several new benefits. Instead of applying to each Google product individually, you can sign up through a <a href="https://google-for-nonprofits.appspot.com/application">one-stop shop application process</a>. If approved, you can access our suite of product offerings designed for nonprofits: up to $10,000 a month in advertising on <a href="//www.google.com/grants/">Google AdWords</a> to reach more donors, free or discounted <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html">Google Apps</a> to cut IT costs and operate more efficiently, and premium features for <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">our mapping technologies</a> to raise awareness of your cause. We’ve also developed other online resources such as <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/videos.html">educational videos</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/casestudies.html">case studies</a> and better ways for you <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/googlefornonprofits-discuss">to connect</a> with other nonprofits.<br /><br />Over time, we’ve learned that many nonprofits require hands-on assistance to optimize the use of Google tools. So we’re also introducing the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/marketplace/">Google for Nonprofits Marketplace</a>, which connects nonprofits with professional service providers who have agreed to offer their services for a free or discounted rate. These firms are already certified partners from existing Google marketplaces—like <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/adwords/reseller/index.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=authorized%20adwords%20resellers">AdWords Authorized Resellers</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/partners.html">Analytics Certified Partners</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?pli=1">Google Apps Marketplace</a> and the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/developers.html">Google Earth Outreach Developer Marketplace</a>.<br /><br />We’re inspired and humbled by the amazing ways <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/makeachange">nonprofits make positive changes</a> to our world and look forward to supporting their work. If you work for a nonprofit, <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits">apply today</a> to see how Google can help your organization grow and expand your impact.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives</span> </script> <noscript> <div><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/">Official Google Blog</a>)</i></div><div><br /></div>One of the greatest things about my job is hearing how terrific organizations are using technology to help their cause. Today I've had a chance to talk with Direct Relief International <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlefornonprofits#p/a/u/2/szpuabuEo7Q">who raised more than $1 million</a> using Google AdWords, Samasource <a href="//www.youtube.com/googlefornonprofits#p/a/u/1/keLEiKB7UO8">who saved tens of thousands of dollars</a> using Google Apps and the Natural Resource Defense Council <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCL-zLOK-CE&feature=relmfu">who earned 100,000 views</a> from one video on their YouTube channel with no paid advertising. Listening to these stories and several like them, we realized that we had an opportunity to greatly increase the number of nonprofits we could assist. With today’s launch of the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits">Google for Nonprofits</a> program, which provides exclusive <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/allproducts.html">product offerings</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/resources.html">enhanced online resources</a>, we’ll be able to help U.S.-based nonprofits reach more donors, improve operations and raise awareness for their cause.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pHEyxJZ8KcM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />If you work for a nonprofit, this program provides you with several new benefits. Instead of applying to each Google product individually, you can sign up through a <a href="https://google-for-nonprofits.appspot.com/application">one-stop shop application process</a>. If approved, you can access our suite of product offerings designed for nonprofits: up to $10,000 a month in advertising on <a href="//www.google.com/grants/">Google AdWords</a> to reach more donors, free or discounted <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html">Google Apps</a> to cut IT costs and operate more efficiently, and premium features for <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">our mapping technologies</a> to raise awareness of your cause. We’ve also developed other online resources such as <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/videos.html">educational videos</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/casestudies.html">case studies</a> and better ways for you <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/googlefornonprofits-discuss">to connect</a> with other nonprofits.<br /><br />Over time, we’ve learned that many nonprofits require hands-on assistance to optimize the use of Google tools. So we’re also introducing the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/marketplace/">Google for Nonprofits Marketplace</a>, which connects nonprofits with professional service providers who have agreed to offer their services for a free or discounted rate. These firms are already certified partners from existing Google marketplaces—like <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/adwords/reseller/index.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=authorized%20adwords%20resellers">AdWords Authorized Resellers</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/partners.html">Analytics Certified Partners</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?pli=1">Google Apps Marketplace</a> and the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/developers.html">Google Earth Outreach Developer Marketplace</a>.<br /><br />We’re inspired and humbled by the amazing ways <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/makeachange">nonprofits make positive changes</a> to our world and look forward to supporting their work. If you work for a nonprofit, <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits">apply today</a> to see how Google can help your organization grow and expand your impact.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:You’re changing the world. We want to help.&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='66051472290098917' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html' itemprop='url' title='Environmental Non-Profits Develop Their Mapping Skills'> Environmental Non-Profits Develop Their Mapping Skills </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, March 14, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Last month, the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach</a> team co-hosted a training with <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/">the Institute at the Golden Gate</a> at historic Fort Baker’s national park lodge, <a href="http://www.cavallopoint.com/">Cavallo Point Lodge</a>, in Sausalito, California. The Institute gathered over eighty representatives from environmental nonprofits and government organizations for the two-day workshop, designed for technology specialists, environmental leaders, and public-interest advocates interested in becoming effective trainers for Google’s mapping technology and its range of applications. <br /> <br />The participants’ focus areas encompassed a wide variety of environmental issues, including <a href="http://www.transitandtrails.org/">public access to parks</a>, <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/map/">clean energy</a>, and <a href="http://www.baedn.org/">tracking of invasive species</a>. Despite their various fields, they were all there for the same reason: the rising and constant demand for mapping visualizations in their work and interest in Google’s easy-to-use and intuitive mapping tools.<div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="375px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7173464784864336" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/D8V-weu5VFVITcjiKoRdz8jpJu9rilPs7Rp6X8Oj0xL-vfkGbq8c7peS0SvGXMDFW4ylH5OYXLlHlClsKdCr8Q13h9_XFSTNGhCOyk9CqDwrTaAmwJQ" width="500px;" /></div> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Google Earth Outreach team member Sean Askay leads a workshop session on advanced KML programming.</i></div><i><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div></i>With a workshop curriculum designed to address a variety of issues, the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach</a> team, along with Googlers from the <a href="http://code.google.com/team/">Developer Relations</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html">Fusion Tables</a>, and <a href="http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/">Google Earth for Educators</a> teams, led hands-on sessions to build participants’ technical skills in Google Earth, Maps, Fusion Tables & APIs. When they weren’t basking in the glow of their laptop screens, the workshop participants were able to take advantage of the workshop’s scenic location by the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge at the historic Fort Baker’s LEED Gold Certified <a href="http://www.cavallopoint.com/">Cavallo Point Lodge</a> in the Golden Gate National Parks. Despite the heavy storms that persisted over the two days, the clouds parted for two hours on the first morning just in time for a mobile data collection field exercise with <a href="http://opendatakit.org/">Open Data Kit</a>. Participants with Android mobile devices were able to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine as well as the view and collect some sample field data. Back in the workshop room, participants uploaded their field data to a Google Fusion Table that displayed everyone’s results on a map.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="375px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7173464784864336" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ySsulyRifHDq9tgIgh1pdrZbfCz4mpzsLuJwtHCOl2_Msnb85qEHvTVGs0zqH7WOFqjKzQADRiaHXE1Zqg01TwVHbhw4oX7Qp9K-ZLwzDmJRmeUPGr4" width="500px;" /></div><div> <br /></div><i>Michael Norelli of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy collects a data point on an Android phone.</i> <br /> <br />In addition to this fun field exercise, participants appreciated the sessions where they were able to get their hands dirty with the tools, have 1:1 time with the Google team, and learn about real world examples of organizations using mapping applications. There was a lot of of excitement about the power of Fusion Tables as a dataset visualization tool. At the end of the two days, there was a general feeling of excitement and enthusiasm among the participants to take the workshop teachings back to their organization, and kick-start or finish mapping projects and train others. <br /> <br />The Institute at the Golden Gate will continue the momentum of this workshop by equipping more environmentalists with Google technology and promoting the work of the Google Earth Outreach team. The Institute plans to use Google technology to create visualizations and a narrated tour of its latest initiative <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/events/park-prescriptions.html">Park Prescriptions</a> - highlighting programs across the nation that connect public lands as a resource for health. <br /> <br />With Google technology, environmentalists and change-makers have open access to an array of tools to help visualize and raise awareness about their work. You don’t have to travel to a training to start learning. Simply check out <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html">Google Earth Outreach’s online tutorials</a> to start now. <br /> <br />The Institute at the Golden Gate convenes and collaborates with organizations across sectors to broker relationships that drive positive environmental change. To learn more about hosting your own environmental conference or event at Fort Baker, <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/meet/">click here.</a></div><div><span class="post-author"> <br /></span></div><div><span class="post-author">Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Google Earth Outreach Team; and Melissa Tsang, Institute at the Golden Gate</span></div> </script> <noscript> Last month, the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach</a> team co-hosted a training with <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/">the Institute at the Golden Gate</a> at historic Fort Baker’s national park lodge, <a href="http://www.cavallopoint.com/">Cavallo Point Lodge</a>, in Sausalito, California. The Institute gathered over eighty representatives from environmental nonprofits and government organizations for the two-day workshop, designed for technology specialists, environmental leaders, and public-interest advocates interested in becoming effective trainers for Google’s mapping technology and its range of applications. <br /> <br />The participants’ focus areas encompassed a wide variety of environmental issues, including <a href="http://www.transitandtrails.org/">public access to parks</a>, <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/map/">clean energy</a>, and <a href="http://www.baedn.org/">tracking of invasive species</a>. Despite their various fields, they were all there for the same reason: the rising and constant demand for mapping visualizations in their work and interest in Google’s easy-to-use and intuitive mapping tools.<div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="375px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7173464784864336" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/D8V-weu5VFVITcjiKoRdz8jpJu9rilPs7Rp6X8Oj0xL-vfkGbq8c7peS0SvGXMDFW4ylH5OYXLlHlClsKdCr8Q13h9_XFSTNGhCOyk9CqDwrTaAmwJQ" width="500px;" /></div> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Google Earth Outreach team member Sean Askay leads a workshop session on advanced KML programming.</i></div><i><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div></i>With a workshop curriculum designed to address a variety of issues, the <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html">Google Earth Outreach</a> team, along with Googlers from the <a href="http://code.google.com/team/">Developer Relations</a>, <a href="//www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html">Fusion Tables</a>, and <a href="http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/">Google Earth for Educators</a> teams, led hands-on sessions to build participants’ technical skills in Google Earth, Maps, Fusion Tables & APIs. When they weren’t basking in the glow of their laptop screens, the workshop participants were able to take advantage of the workshop’s scenic location by the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge at the historic Fort Baker’s LEED Gold Certified <a href="http://www.cavallopoint.com/">Cavallo Point Lodge</a> in the Golden Gate National Parks. Despite the heavy storms that persisted over the two days, the clouds parted for two hours on the first morning just in time for a mobile data collection field exercise with <a href="http://opendatakit.org/">Open Data Kit</a>. Participants with Android mobile devices were able to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine as well as the view and collect some sample field data. Back in the workshop room, participants uploaded their field data to a Google Fusion Table that displayed everyone’s results on a map.</div><div> <br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="375px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7173464784864336" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ySsulyRifHDq9tgIgh1pdrZbfCz4mpzsLuJwtHCOl2_Msnb85qEHvTVGs0zqH7WOFqjKzQADRiaHXE1Zqg01TwVHbhw4oX7Qp9K-ZLwzDmJRmeUPGr4" width="500px;" /></div><div> <br /></div><i>Michael Norelli of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy collects a data point on an Android phone.</i> <br /> <br />In addition to this fun field exercise, participants appreciated the sessions where they were able to get their hands dirty with the tools, have 1:1 time with the Google team, and learn about real world examples of organizations using mapping applications. There was a lot of of excitement about the power of Fusion Tables as a dataset visualization tool. At the end of the two days, there was a general feeling of excitement and enthusiasm among the participants to take the workshop teachings back to their organization, and kick-start or finish mapping projects and train others. <br /> <br />The Institute at the Golden Gate will continue the momentum of this workshop by equipping more environmentalists with Google technology and promoting the work of the Google Earth Outreach team. The Institute plans to use Google technology to create visualizations and a narrated tour of its latest initiative <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/events/park-prescriptions.html">Park Prescriptions</a> - highlighting programs across the nation that connect public lands as a resource for health. <br /> <br />With Google technology, environmentalists and change-makers have open access to an array of tools to help visualize and raise awareness about their work. You don’t have to travel to a training to start learning. Simply check out <a href="http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html">Google Earth Outreach’s online tutorials</a> to start now. <br /> <br />The Institute at the Golden Gate convenes and collaborates with organizations across sectors to broker relationships that drive positive environmental change. To learn more about hosting your own environmental conference or event at Fort Baker, <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/igg/meet/">click here.</a></div><div><span class="post-author"> <br /></span></div><div><span class="post-author">Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Google Earth Outreach Team; and Melissa Tsang, Institute at the Golden Gate</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Environmental Non-Profits Develop Their Mapping Skills&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/03/environmental-non-profits-develop-their.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Outreach' rel='tag'> Google Earth Outreach </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5580029450780028810' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Free Transaction Processing For Google Grants Recipients Continues Through 2011'> Free Transaction Processing For Google Grants Recipients Continues Through 2011 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, February 24, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <i>Cross posted on <a href="http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/">The Official Google Checkout Blog</a></i><br /> <br /> We’re thrilled to announce that as part of the <a href="http://checkout.google.com/seller/npo/">Google Checkout for Non-Profits program</a>, free transaction processing for Google Grants recipients will be extended through 2011.<br /> <br /> So if you’re part of the <a href="//www.google.com/grants/">Google Grants</a> program and you have a Google Checkout account, you’ll be able to use Google Checkout to accept donations without paying transaction processing fees in the coming year. We hope many non-profits take advantage of this benefit through the next year as they raise funds to advance their causes.<br /> <br /> For more information about other Google tools for non-profits, check out the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">Google for Non-Profits</a> website. <br /> <div><span class="byline-author"><br /> </span></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Satyajeet Salgar, Checkout Team</span></div> </script> <noscript> <i>Cross posted on <a href="http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/">The Official Google Checkout Blog</a></i><br /> <br /> We’re thrilled to announce that as part of the <a href="http://checkout.google.com/seller/npo/">Google Checkout for Non-Profits program</a>, free transaction processing for Google Grants recipients will be extended through 2011.<br /> <br /> So if you’re part of the <a href="//www.google.com/grants/">Google Grants</a> program and you have a Google Checkout account, you’ll be able to use Google Checkout to accept donations without paying transaction processing fees in the coming year. We hope many non-profits take advantage of this benefit through the next year as they raise funds to advance their causes.<br /> <br /> For more information about other Google tools for non-profits, check out the <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">Google for Non-Profits</a> website. <br /> <div><span class="byline-author"><br /> </span></div><div><span class="byline-author">Posted by Satyajeet Salgar, Checkout Team</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Free Transaction Processing For Google Grants Recipients Continues Through 2011&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/free-transaction-processing-for-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6700280840210097510' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html' itemprop='url' title='Announcing The 2011 Nonprofit Video Awards'> Announcing The 2011 Nonprofit Video Awards </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, February 16, 2011 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> If you’re a non-profit organization who has created one or more amazing videos in the past year, we have good news for you. For the second year in a row, YouTube is teaming up with See3 Communications to present <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards">the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards</a>, a celebration of the best non-profit video on the site.<br /><br />Whether you created a high-definition documentary about street slums in India or shot a quirky cellphone video of rescue dogs at your animal shelter, we encourage you to submit your video at <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards">www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards.</a> We’ll award prizes like $2500 grants from the Case Foundation, Flip Cams, free admission to the Nonprofit Technology Conference, and a spotlight on the YouTube homepage to small, medium and large organizations, plus a special award for the “Best Thrifty Video”.<br /><br />To give you a sense of what works, here are the finalists’ videos from last year’s competition:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TcI8fYKH3Ik" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />The deadline to enter is March 2, 2010 and you must be a member of <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">the YouTube Nonprofit Program</a> at the time of judging, to enter. Good luck!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ramya Raghavan, YouTube Team</span> </script> <noscript> If you’re a non-profit organization who has created one or more amazing videos in the past year, we have good news for you. For the second year in a row, YouTube is teaming up with See3 Communications to present <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards">the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards</a>, a celebration of the best non-profit video on the site.<br /><br />Whether you created a high-definition documentary about street slums in India or shot a quirky cellphone video of rescue dogs at your animal shelter, we encourage you to submit your video at <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards">www.youtube.com/nonprofitvideoawards.</a> We’ll award prizes like $2500 grants from the Case Foundation, Flip Cams, free admission to the Nonprofit Technology Conference, and a spotlight on the YouTube homepage to small, medium and large organizations, plus a special award for the “Best Thrifty Video”.<br /><br />To give you a sense of what works, here are the finalists’ videos from last year’s competition:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TcI8fYKH3Ik" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />The deadline to enter is March 2, 2010 and you must be a member of <a href="//www.youtube.com/nonprofits">the YouTube Nonprofit Program</a> at the time of judging, to enter. Good luck!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Ramya Raghavan, YouTube Team</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Announcing The 2011 Nonprofit Video Awards&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-2011-nonprofit-video-awards.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Grantees' rel='tag'> Grantees </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4227704221775840764' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html' itemprop='url' title='Sharing Holiday Cheer With Google Maps'> Sharing Holiday Cheer With Google Maps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, December 16, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Cross Posted on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/send-message-of-holiday-cheer-with.html">the Official Google Blog</a><br /><br /><br /><br />For me, celebrating the holidays is both about spending time with family, and taking the time to help others. Along with bundling up by the fire and sipping some hot cocoa, the holidays mean taking the time to do something good.<br /><br /><br /><br />If you want to send directions to a volunteer opportunity, or just want to brighten a friend’s day, we’ve designed online holiday greeting cards featuring Google Maps. In addition to choosing from <a href="http://googlemapsholidays.appspot.com/">ten holiday covers</a> and adding a personal message, you can include specific directions, a Street View image, or a favorite place on the inside of the card.<br /><br /><br /><br />For example, I can send this card with the map designed as a holiday present, to remind friends about the gift of giving, and share directions to volunteer at their <a href="//maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode&q=San+Francisco+Food+Bank,+San+Francisco,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,73.125&ie=UTF8&hq=San+Francisco+Food+Bank,&hnear=San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.758434,-122.390785&spn=0.04214,0.071411&z=14&iwloc=A">local food bank</a> to help feed thousands of people over the holidays.<div><br /><br /><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="328px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aLLaqRdVHPIebV4s8wwFC5_eulrCycVINMF74WeB9xbwNnmzT7YkVrxpFPQaGteYZ2TzHwIpIzzl8FJiqbIQ-GLrwifzuNDWWMGzi2dJNAl-Ce8REA" width="500px;" /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><i> Thanks to <a href="http://www.christophniemann.com/">Christoff Niemann</a> for inspiration. </i></div><div><br /><br /></div><div>With all of the holiday decorations around San Francisco, I enjoy walking or biking around and taking in the sights. I can send this card to my friends to get them thinking about environmentally-friendly alternate modes of transportation, and include <a href="//maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=345+Spear+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=INDIAN+OVEN,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&geocode=FWugQAIdA3u0-CnPy_YLcICFgDG24T8JAruZjw;FcFZQAIdxtuz-CE2H3YR8I5BaQ&mra=ls&dirflg=b&sll=32.249974,-97.822266&sspn=45.375169,73.125&ie=UTF8&z=14&lci=bike">biking directions</a> to an upcoming dinner (after all, snow is a rare sight in San Francisco). </div><div><br /><br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="331px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RnxjL9Dz6F52MVQ-eWl2-i-WXU5c677KWx2qNHc_10JFMOqc3KZSU395b7ci8brxoY9MKbs7d9fYyrqSmiF3TmhBCxcvfm6Z97uIDoeH5q0im3VSdg" width="502px;" /></div></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><br /></span>Finally, doing good can also mean just brightening someone’s day, so I will send this cheerful holiday greeting to my big brother in Colorado to let him know that I’m looking forward to seeing him over the holidays. </div><div><br /><br /></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><img height="329px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/eb1e2QC8oJoMrj9mmFRDmqtyY1SXsMSEpSmpwgHXu5BHljQNFIY56euDzEcfz0bNaXTtjQyXTMxIWuyVnqW13NRWOiR7F-y-0AYUAvxsP68b2yyC-Q" width="501px;" /></div></span><br /><br />You too can share the holiday spirit with these online cards, so start sending them at <a href="http://googlemapsholidays.appspot.com/">googlemapsholidays.appspot.com</a>. Happy holidays!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kirsten Olsen Cahill, Google.org Team</span></div></div></div></div> </script> <noscript> Cross Posted on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/send-message-of-holiday-cheer-with.html">the Official Google Blog</a><br /><br /><br /><br />For me, celebrating the holidays is both about spending time with family, and taking the time to help others. Along with bundling up by the fire and sipping some hot cocoa, the holidays mean taking the time to do something good.<br /><br /><br /><br />If you want to send directions to a volunteer opportunity, or just want to brighten a friend’s day, we’ve designed online holiday greeting cards featuring Google Maps. In addition to choosing from <a href="http://googlemapsholidays.appspot.com/">ten holiday covers</a> and adding a personal message, you can include specific directions, a Street View image, or a favorite place on the inside of the card.<br /><br /><br /><br />For example, I can send this card with the map designed as a holiday present, to remind friends about the gift of giving, and share directions to volunteer at their <a href="//maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode&q=San+Francisco+Food+Bank,+San+Francisco,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,73.125&ie=UTF8&hq=San+Francisco+Food+Bank,&hnear=San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.758434,-122.390785&spn=0.04214,0.071411&z=14&iwloc=A">local food bank</a> to help feed thousands of people over the holidays.<div><br /><br /><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="328px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aLLaqRdVHPIebV4s8wwFC5_eulrCycVINMF74WeB9xbwNnmzT7YkVrxpFPQaGteYZ2TzHwIpIzzl8FJiqbIQ-GLrwifzuNDWWMGzi2dJNAl-Ce8REA" width="500px;" /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><i> Thanks to <a href="http://www.christophniemann.com/">Christoff Niemann</a> for inspiration. </i></div><div><br /><br /></div><div>With all of the holiday decorations around San Francisco, I enjoy walking or biking around and taking in the sights. I can send this card to my friends to get them thinking about environmentally-friendly alternate modes of transportation, and include <a href="//maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=345+Spear+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=INDIAN+OVEN,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&geocode=FWugQAIdA3u0-CnPy_YLcICFgDG24T8JAruZjw;FcFZQAIdxtuz-CE2H3YR8I5BaQ&mra=ls&dirflg=b&sll=32.249974,-97.822266&sspn=45.375169,73.125&ie=UTF8&z=14&lci=bike">biking directions</a> to an upcoming dinner (after all, snow is a rare sight in San Francisco). </div><div><br /><br /></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img height="331px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RnxjL9Dz6F52MVQ-eWl2-i-WXU5c677KWx2qNHc_10JFMOqc3KZSU395b7ci8brxoY9MKbs7d9fYyrqSmiF3TmhBCxcvfm6Z97uIDoeH5q0im3VSdg" width="502px;" /></div></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><br /></span>Finally, doing good can also mean just brightening someone’s day, so I will send this cheerful holiday greeting to my big brother in Colorado to let him know that I’m looking forward to seeing him over the holidays. </div><div><br /><br /></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><img height="329px;" id="internal-source-marker_0.11239279038272798" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/eb1e2QC8oJoMrj9mmFRDmqtyY1SXsMSEpSmpwgHXu5BHljQNFIY56euDzEcfz0bNaXTtjQyXTMxIWuyVnqW13NRWOiR7F-y-0AYUAvxsP68b2yyC-Q" width="501px;" /></div></span><br /><br />You too can share the holiday spirit with these online cards, so start sending them at <a href="http://googlemapsholidays.appspot.com/">googlemapsholidays.appspot.com</a>. Happy holidays!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kirsten Olsen Cahill, Google.org Team</span></div></div></div></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Sharing Holiday Cheer With Google Maps&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharing-holiday-cheer-with-google-maps.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7400591407914277974' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html' itemprop='url' title='App'y Holidays From Google'> App'y Holidays From Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, December 2, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The holidays are a hectic time for all of us, especially nonprofit organizations that rely on the seasonal spirit of giving to sustain operations throughout the year. As you move into this busy time, we thought you might like a few tips on how using Google Apps and other tools can help you make a change and save some time this holiday season</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCo9JWRXwNOlJdXN5-2cwQrbCG9T9YkdxBCAIQzMMOnE2AOhrF2laUALFzWrvfwVkIVoJfHNbVP47mqzGyhgnG5SUZNpc-9tth2nowkrsMWvI2XTxxoutXcwtXhOXYhZXrbFBG2Usizv0/s1600/Picture+7.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546130671293770898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCo9JWRXwNOlJdXN5-2cwQrbCG9T9YkdxBCAIQzMMOnE2AOhrF2laUALFzWrvfwVkIVoJfHNbVP47mqzGyhgnG5SUZNpc-9tth2nowkrsMWvI2XTxxoutXcwtXhOXYhZXrbFBG2Usizv0/s400/Picture+7.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" /></a><span class="byline-author"><p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To reach more donors:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Use these <span class="s1"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/templates?q=make-a-change&sort=hottest&view=public">Google Docs templates</a></span> to attract and engage supporters with newsletters, event invitations, and more.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To improve operations: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Try out this <span class="s1"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/projectwikitemplate_en/">project planning template</a></span> to save time and better organize your staff and volunteers.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To raise awareness: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html##utm_source=nonprofits_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofits_holiday">Google Fusion Tables</a></span> to show impact or add a custom map to your website.</span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more ideas of how Google’s tools can help expand your impact and to view cases studies from fellow nonprofits, visit the Google for Nonprofits <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/#utm_source=nonprofit_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofit_holiday">website</a></span><a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/#utm_source=nonprofit_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofit_holiday">.</a> Share your stories by <span class="s1"><a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/sharesuccess/">telling us</a></span> how Google products have helped your organization.</span></span></span></p></span><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "></span>Posted by Anna Bishop, Google For Nonprofits Team</span></span></div> </script> <noscript> <div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The holidays are a hectic time for all of us, especially nonprofit organizations that rely on the seasonal spirit of giving to sustain operations throughout the year. As you move into this busy time, we thought you might like a few tips on how using Google Apps and other tools can help you make a change and save some time this holiday season</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCo9JWRXwNOlJdXN5-2cwQrbCG9T9YkdxBCAIQzMMOnE2AOhrF2laUALFzWrvfwVkIVoJfHNbVP47mqzGyhgnG5SUZNpc-9tth2nowkrsMWvI2XTxxoutXcwtXhOXYhZXrbFBG2Usizv0/s1600/Picture+7.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546130671293770898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCo9JWRXwNOlJdXN5-2cwQrbCG9T9YkdxBCAIQzMMOnE2AOhrF2laUALFzWrvfwVkIVoJfHNbVP47mqzGyhgnG5SUZNpc-9tth2nowkrsMWvI2XTxxoutXcwtXhOXYhZXrbFBG2Usizv0/s400/Picture+7.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" /></a><span class="byline-author"><p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To reach more donors:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Use these <span class="s1"><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/templates?q=make-a-change&sort=hottest&view=public">Google Docs templates</a></span> to attract and engage supporters with newsletters, event invitations, and more.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To improve operations: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Try out this <span class="s1"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/projectwikitemplate_en/">project planning template</a></span> to save time and better organize your staff and volunteers.</span></span></p> <p class="p1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To raise awareness: </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html##utm_source=nonprofits_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofits_holiday">Google Fusion Tables</a></span> to show impact or add a custom map to your website.</span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more ideas of how Google’s tools can help expand your impact and to view cases studies from fellow nonprofits, visit the Google for Nonprofits <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/#utm_source=nonprofit_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofit_holiday">website</a></span><a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/#utm_source=nonprofit_holiday_blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=nonprofit_holiday">.</a> Share your stories by <span class="s1"><a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/sharesuccess/">telling us</a></span> how Google products have helped your organization.</span></span></span></p></span><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "></span>Posted by Anna Bishop, Google For Nonprofits Team</span></span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:App'y Holidays From Google&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/12/app-holidays-from-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5700093679459550339' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html' itemprop='url' title='Website Clinic: Call For Submissions'> Website Clinic: Call For Submissions </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, October 25, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div><i><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html">Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div>Googlers often participate in live site clinics at conferences, giving advice about real-world sites and allowing webmasters to learn by example. Now Google's Search Quality team is excited to host an online site clinic on the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/">Webmaster Central Blog</a>. In future posts, the Search Quality team will be looking at some user-submitted examples and offering broad advice that you can apply to your site.<p></p><p class="p1">This site clinic will focus on non-profit organizations, but chances are that the advice will benefit small business and government sites as well. If you work for a non-profit and would like your site considered, read on for submission instructions.</p><p class="p2"><b>How to submit your site:</b></p><p class="p2">To register your site for the clinic, fill in the information requested on this <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dFRDNW8xc0tWQmdRbDUxdlRZeFRRRGc6MQ">form</a>. From there, the team will determine trends and share corresponding best practices to improve site quality and user experience. The analysis will be available in a follow-up post, and will adhere to the public standards of webmaster guidance. Please note that by submitting your site, you permit the team to use your site as an example in follow-up clinic posts. </p><p class="p2">There are a few guidelines:</p><p class="p2">1. Your site must belong to an officially registered non-profit organization.</p><p class="p2">2. In order to ensure that you're the site owner, you must verify ownership of your site in Google Webmaster Tools. You can do that (for free) <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&passive=true&nui=1&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl%3Den&followup=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl%3Den&hl=en">here</a>.</p><p class="p2">3. To the best of your ability, make sure your site meets the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">webmaster quality guidelines</a>. The team will be suing the same principles as the basis for their analysis.</p><p class="p2">All set? Submit your site for consideration <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dFRDNW8xc0tWQmdRbDUxdlRZeFRRRGc6MQ">here</a>.</p><p class="p2">The site clinic goes live today and submissions will be accepted until 11/18/2010. Stay tuned for some useful webmaster tips when the sites are reviewed.</p><p class="p2"><br /></p><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; "><b></b></span>Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Team</span></div> </script> <noscript> <div><i><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html">Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog</a></i></div><div><br /></div>Googlers often participate in live site clinics at conferences, giving advice about real-world sites and allowing webmasters to learn by example. Now Google's Search Quality team is excited to host an online site clinic on the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/">Webmaster Central Blog</a>. In future posts, the Search Quality team will be looking at some user-submitted examples and offering broad advice that you can apply to your site.<p></p><p class="p1">This site clinic will focus on non-profit organizations, but chances are that the advice will benefit small business and government sites as well. If you work for a non-profit and would like your site considered, read on for submission instructions.</p><p class="p2"><b>How to submit your site:</b></p><p class="p2">To register your site for the clinic, fill in the information requested on this <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dFRDNW8xc0tWQmdRbDUxdlRZeFRRRGc6MQ">form</a>. From there, the team will determine trends and share corresponding best practices to improve site quality and user experience. The analysis will be available in a follow-up post, and will adhere to the public standards of webmaster guidance. Please note that by submitting your site, you permit the team to use your site as an example in follow-up clinic posts. </p><p class="p2">There are a few guidelines:</p><p class="p2">1. Your site must belong to an officially registered non-profit organization.</p><p class="p2">2. In order to ensure that you're the site owner, you must verify ownership of your site in Google Webmaster Tools. You can do that (for free) <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&passive=true&nui=1&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl%3Den&followup=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl%3Den&hl=en">here</a>.</p><p class="p2">3. To the best of your ability, make sure your site meets the <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">webmaster quality guidelines</a>. The team will be suing the same principles as the basis for their analysis.</p><p class="p2">All set? Submit your site for consideration <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dFRDNW8xc0tWQmdRbDUxdlRZeFRRRGc6MQ">here</a>.</p><p class="p2">The site clinic goes live today and submissions will be accepted until 11/18/2010. Stay tuned for some useful webmaster tips when the sites are reviewed.</p><p class="p2"><br /></p><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; "><b></b></span>Posted by Alexi Douvas and Jen Lee, Search Quality Team</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Website Clinic: Call For Submissions&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/10/website-clinic-call-for-submissions.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8276345577579849402' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Analytics: Better Understanding Your Website's Visitors'> Google Analytics: Better Understanding Your Website's Visitors </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, September 28, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author"> <p class="p1">Whether it’s prospective volunteers, donors or individuals interested in your organization’s cause, better understanding your visitors and their actions on your site can help achieve your goals. Fortunately <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a></span> can take the guesswork out of the equation, bringing you key trends, rich data and actionable insights. The following reports under <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60127">the ‘Visitors’ tab</a></span> in Google Analytics are a great place to start.</p> <p class="p2"><b>Map Overlay</b>: From countries to states and cities, this report shows from where in the world your visitors are accessing your site. The darker the shaded color on the map, the higher the concentration of visitors coming from that location. Hover your mouse over an area to quickly access the metrics associated with that geography. Best of all, you can use the tab at the top to change what metric is used for the map. Have an active goal for donations and want to see what states drive the highest donations per visitor? Interested in learning what cities drove the highest number of volunteer sign-ups after a recent event? Just swap out the metrics and get your insights in seconds. </p> <p class="p1"><b>New vs. Returning</b>: This report shows you a breakdown of your visitors into two categories - returning users (those who have been to your website before) and new users (those who have not been to your site before). You can view those two visitor groups through a variety of lenses - total visits, bounce rate, conversions and more. Diving into this report can let you know if your recent publicity efforts are paying off (do we have more ‘new’ visitors this month versus last month?), or if you are getting larger average online donations from your returning users versus those who are looking at your site for the first time.</p> <p class="p2"><b>Visitor Trending:</b> Check these reports for a great overview of what your visitors are doing over a period of time. Do my visitors tend to spend more time browsing my site during the week, or on the weekend? Has my <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81986">bounce rate</a></span> changed at all since I redesigned our website? Whether you’re measuring average pageviews, bounce rate or time on site, these reports all give a high level picture of how your site is doing in relation to key metrics.</p> <p class="p2">The overview and insights provided by the reports above can help you make informed decisions about how to manage your Google Grants account and your website. For more information on features and reports available through Google Analytics, be sure to check out our <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/">Google Analytics Help Center.</a></span></p></span><div><span class="byline-author"><br /></span></div><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/"></a></span>Posted by Geoff Stirling, AdWords Team</span></div> </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author"> <p class="p1">Whether it’s prospective volunteers, donors or individuals interested in your organization’s cause, better understanding your visitors and their actions on your site can help achieve your goals. Fortunately <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a></span> can take the guesswork out of the equation, bringing you key trends, rich data and actionable insights. The following reports under <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60127">the ‘Visitors’ tab</a></span> in Google Analytics are a great place to start.</p> <p class="p2"><b>Map Overlay</b>: From countries to states and cities, this report shows from where in the world your visitors are accessing your site. The darker the shaded color on the map, the higher the concentration of visitors coming from that location. Hover your mouse over an area to quickly access the metrics associated with that geography. Best of all, you can use the tab at the top to change what metric is used for the map. Have an active goal for donations and want to see what states drive the highest donations per visitor? Interested in learning what cities drove the highest number of volunteer sign-ups after a recent event? Just swap out the metrics and get your insights in seconds. </p> <p class="p1"><b>New vs. Returning</b>: This report shows you a breakdown of your visitors into two categories - returning users (those who have been to your website before) and new users (those who have not been to your site before). You can view those two visitor groups through a variety of lenses - total visits, bounce rate, conversions and more. Diving into this report can let you know if your recent publicity efforts are paying off (do we have more ‘new’ visitors this month versus last month?), or if you are getting larger average online donations from your returning users versus those who are looking at your site for the first time.</p> <p class="p2"><b>Visitor Trending:</b> Check these reports for a great overview of what your visitors are doing over a period of time. Do my visitors tend to spend more time browsing my site during the week, or on the weekend? Has my <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81986">bounce rate</a></span> changed at all since I redesigned our website? Whether you’re measuring average pageviews, bounce rate or time on site, these reports all give a high level picture of how your site is doing in relation to key metrics.</p> <p class="p2">The overview and insights provided by the reports above can help you make informed decisions about how to manage your Google Grants account and your website. For more information on features and reports available through Google Analytics, be sure to check out our <span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/">Google Analytics Help Center.</a></span></p></span><div><span class="byline-author"><br /></span></div><div><span class="byline-author"><span class="s1"><a href="//www.google.com/support/analytics/"></a></span>Posted by Geoff Stirling, AdWords Team</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Google Analytics: Better Understanding Your Website's Visitors&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-analytics-better-understanding.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/AdWords%20Basics' rel='tag'> AdWords Basics </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Tracking%20Performance' rel='tag'> Tracking Performance </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8937716588993205148' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html' itemprop='url' title='Get Your Non-Profit Started With YouTube'> Get Your Non-Profit Started With YouTube </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, August 30, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div>Getting started with the YouTube Non-Profit Program only takes 3 simple steps:</div><div><br />1. Create an account with YouTube under your charity’s name: www.youtube.com/create_account<br /><br />2. Register for the YouTube Non-Profit Program (US, UK, CA, AU only): www.youtube.com/nonprofits<br /><br />3. Get your videos online!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Building a really effective channel that attracts subscribers takes a little longer. Here are some tips on getting the most out of your YouTube Non-Profit Channel:<div><br /><b>Customize your channel wisely </b>- The brand channel wide frame illustrates which images can be customized under your channel. The channel banner for example can link externally and is the first image to grab your visitor’s attention. Make sure your logo is clearly shown to present a trusted front for your non-profit.</div><div><br /><b>Add Call-to-Action overlays -</b> A major benefit of this program is that Call-to-Action overlays are made freely available across all of your uploads. <a href="//www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=150471">These instructions</a> will help you get these configured. Calls-to-action provide a powerful prompt that should be used to engage your video viewers into performing an action that will support your non-profit’s cause.</div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3oQwZblL8dNSZsX7GBrX4n2IyUuOTyYTDJ4vZ6KKVHJ1E2mDpATBAFeTBaaLNUvi5A334uBjKe00alorADWEvx62jkl3aKyTOq7CwmSX47794-onQ1kX0fc_pR-om6gB0eqcfzaAyu0o/s1600/nonprofit-CTA.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511336296851208722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3oQwZblL8dNSZsX7GBrX4n2IyUuOTyYTDJ4vZ6KKVHJ1E2mDpATBAFeTBaaLNUvi5A334uBjKe00alorADWEvx62jkl3aKyTOq7CwmSX47794-onQ1kX0fc_pR-om6gB0eqcfzaAyu0o/s400/nonprofit-CTA.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" /></a><div> </div><div><b>Upload content regularly -</b> It can be hard to keep your content updated, but even low quality footage from the field can be a powerful driver of engagement and trust with your audience. In fact, it is best to focus on authentic and original content as this will best communicate your message amongst the large amount of competing content on YouTube.</div><div><br /><b>Share your content </b>- Enabling <a href="//www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157215">auto-share</a> by linking your YouTube channel to your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts makes it easy to keep your subscribers up to date no matter which channel they follow. Auto-share combined with regular uploads and comments will prompt your subscribers that you are still actively engaging your area of focus. Also, make sure you embed your videos on your website.<br /><br />Video is an incredibly powerful tool as it can convey emotive and visual messages more effectively than any other media. YouTube not only provides you with this channel of delivery, but also an important feedback and engagement channel with your audience. For more information on YouTube please visit the <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/">YouTube Blog.</a></div><div><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Savage, Google Australia</span></div> </script> <noscript> <div>Getting started with the YouTube Non-Profit Program only takes 3 simple steps:</div><div><br />1. Create an account with YouTube under your charity’s name: www.youtube.com/create_account<br /><br />2. Register for the YouTube Non-Profit Program (US, UK, CA, AU only): www.youtube.com/nonprofits<br /><br />3. Get your videos online!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Building a really effective channel that attracts subscribers takes a little longer. Here are some tips on getting the most out of your YouTube Non-Profit Channel:<div><br /><b>Customize your channel wisely </b>- The brand channel wide frame illustrates which images can be customized under your channel. The channel banner for example can link externally and is the first image to grab your visitor’s attention. Make sure your logo is clearly shown to present a trusted front for your non-profit.</div><div><br /><b>Add Call-to-Action overlays -</b> A major benefit of this program is that Call-to-Action overlays are made freely available across all of your uploads. <a href="//www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=150471">These instructions</a> will help you get these configured. Calls-to-action provide a powerful prompt that should be used to engage your video viewers into performing an action that will support your non-profit’s cause.</div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3oQwZblL8dNSZsX7GBrX4n2IyUuOTyYTDJ4vZ6KKVHJ1E2mDpATBAFeTBaaLNUvi5A334uBjKe00alorADWEvx62jkl3aKyTOq7CwmSX47794-onQ1kX0fc_pR-om6gB0eqcfzaAyu0o/s1600/nonprofit-CTA.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511336296851208722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3oQwZblL8dNSZsX7GBrX4n2IyUuOTyYTDJ4vZ6KKVHJ1E2mDpATBAFeTBaaLNUvi5A334uBjKe00alorADWEvx62jkl3aKyTOq7CwmSX47794-onQ1kX0fc_pR-om6gB0eqcfzaAyu0o/s400/nonprofit-CTA.png" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" /></a><div> </div><div><b>Upload content regularly -</b> It can be hard to keep your content updated, but even low quality footage from the field can be a powerful driver of engagement and trust with your audience. In fact, it is best to focus on authentic and original content as this will best communicate your message amongst the large amount of competing content on YouTube.</div><div><br /><b>Share your content </b>- Enabling <a href="//www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157215">auto-share</a> by linking your YouTube channel to your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts makes it easy to keep your subscribers up to date no matter which channel they follow. Auto-share combined with regular uploads and comments will prompt your subscribers that you are still actively engaging your area of focus. Also, make sure you embed your videos on your website.<br /><br />Video is an incredibly powerful tool as it can convey emotive and visual messages more effectively than any other media. YouTube not only provides you with this channel of delivery, but also an important feedback and engagement channel with your audience. For more information on YouTube please visit the <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/">YouTube Blog.</a></div><div><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Savage, Google Australia</span></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Get Your Non-Profit Started With YouTube&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-your-non-profit-started-with.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Resources%20for%20Non-Profits' rel='tag'> Resources for Non-Profits </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6083865177329127843' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html' itemprop='url' title='Sign-Up for the Google Grants Workshop by Friday, July 9th'> Sign-Up for the Google Grants Workshop by Friday, July 9th </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, July 7, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> In case you haven't already heard, we will be holding a Google Grants workshop at our Mountain View, California campus in early September. <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html">This two-day event</a> is designed for existing Google Grantee organizations interested in strategies to maximize their AdWords account and <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">free Google products</a> to help reach more donors, improve operations, and raise awareness. You can read more about the workshop in <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html">our full blog post</a> on the topic.<br /><br />If you are interested in attending, please sign-up <a href="https://spreadsheets2.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZDekNYal9QcVdxcTZKRmkzei1DQUE6MQ">here</a> for the invitation lottery. The deadline to complete the interest form is Friday, July 9th, so be sure to sign-up soon if you would like to attend the workshop.<br /><br />Looking forward to Septemb<span class="byline-author">er!<br /><br />Posted by Kristie Mun, The Google Grants Team</span> </script> <noscript> In case you haven't already heard, we will be holding a Google Grants workshop at our Mountain View, California campus in early September. <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html">This two-day event</a> is designed for existing Google Grantee organizations interested in strategies to maximize their AdWords account and <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">free Google products</a> to help reach more donors, improve operations, and raise awareness. You can read more about the workshop in <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html">our full blog post</a> on the topic.<br /><br />If you are interested in attending, please sign-up <a href="https://spreadsheets2.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZDekNYal9QcVdxcTZKRmkzei1DQUE6MQ">here</a> for the invitation lottery. The deadline to complete the interest form is Friday, July 9th, so be sure to sign-up soon if you would like to attend the workshop.<br /><br />Looking forward to Septemb<span class="byline-author">er!<br /><br />Posted by Kristie Mun, The Google Grants Team</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Sign-Up for the Google Grants Workshop by Friday, July 9th&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-up-for-google-grants-workshop-by.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Grantees' rel='tag'> Grantees </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Grants%20Program' rel='tag'> Grants Program </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6957157090108332438' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html' itemprop='url' title='Submit Your Questions For BP Regarding The Oil Spill'> Submit Your Questions For BP Regarding The Oil Spill </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, July 1, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Today, July 1st, YouTube is teaming up with <a href="//www.youtube.com/pbsnewshour">PBS NewsHour</a> for an exclusive interview with Bob Dudley, President and CEO of BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization. In a live session moderated by the PBS NewsHour’s Ray Suarez, Mr. Dudley will respond directly to <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">the public’s questions</a> about <a href="//www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/">the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico</a>.<br /><br />If your organization is interested in being part of the discussion, we welcome questions from you and your members. You can <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">ask BP questions</a> about accountability, the clean-up plan, recovery efforts in the Gulf region, environmental impact, the status of the relief well drilling, the role of the U.S. government, the future of offshore drilling and of BP as a company, or any other topic on your mind.<br /><br />Participate in the discussion by submitting questions and voting for the best ones using <a href="//www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=17638">Google Moderator</a> on <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">youtube.com/citizentube</a>. The top questions will be posed in the live interview today, Thursday, July 1, at 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT on <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">CitizenTube</a>. Portions of the interview will also be aired Thursday evening on PBS NewsHour and available on YouTube.<br /><br />We look forward to your submitted questions for this exclusive interview.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristie Mun, Google Grants Team</span> </script> <noscript> Today, July 1st, YouTube is teaming up with <a href="//www.youtube.com/pbsnewshour">PBS NewsHour</a> for an exclusive interview with Bob Dudley, President and CEO of BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization. In a live session moderated by the PBS NewsHour’s Ray Suarez, Mr. Dudley will respond directly to <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">the public’s questions</a> about <a href="//www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/">the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico</a>.<br /><br />If your organization is interested in being part of the discussion, we welcome questions from you and your members. You can <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">ask BP questions</a> about accountability, the clean-up plan, recovery efforts in the Gulf region, environmental impact, the status of the relief well drilling, the role of the U.S. government, the future of offshore drilling and of BP as a company, or any other topic on your mind.<br /><br />Participate in the discussion by submitting questions and voting for the best ones using <a href="//www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=17638">Google Moderator</a> on <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">youtube.com/citizentube</a>. The top questions will be posed in the live interview today, Thursday, July 1, at 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT on <a href="//www.youtube.com/citizentube">CitizenTube</a>. Portions of the interview will also be aired Thursday evening on PBS NewsHour and available on YouTube.<br /><br />We look forward to your submitted questions for this exclusive interview.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristie Mun, Google Grants Team</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Submit Your Questions For BP Regarding The Oil Spill&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/07/submit-your-questions-for-bp-regarding.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4923592082844767505' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html' itemprop='url' title='Announcing the 2010 Google Grants Workshop in Mountain View, Calif'> Announcing the 2010 Google Grants Workshop in Mountain View, Calif </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 23, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Over the past few years, the Google Grants team has been working hard to help you, the grantee, make better use of your AdWords account to achieve your organization's goals. We've beefed up our educational resources, added new content to our <a href="//www.google.com/support/grants/">Help Center</a>, and much more to empower you. Towards the same end, we held <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-grants-workshop-recap-and-videos.html">our first grantee workshop</a> last summer on our Mountain View, California campus, where 100+ grantees attended a two-day workshop focused on better use of their Google Grants account and awareness of other non-profit offerings from Google. Last year's event was such a success, that we will be holding a second two-day workshop in Mountain View this summer.<br /><br />That's right - we are pleased to announce our second Google Grants Workshop, to be held in Mountain View in early September!<br /><br />During the two-day workshop, grantees will attend AdWords sessions taught by in-house specialists, hear best practices from fellow grantees, and learn about <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">Google for Non-Profits' products</a> that can make an impact on their organization. As with last year's event, we will record workshop sessions and post the videos online from which all can benefit.<br /><br />While we'd love to open this event to all our 6,000+ grantees, we do have a limited number of invitations and will not be able to accommodate everyone. Therefore, we'll be holding a lottery drawing to ensure that we issue invitations fairly. Also, since this workshop will feature similar content to last year's event, we ask that those who attended the previous workshop do not enter the lottery for the 2010 event.<br /><br />If you're a current Google Grants recipient, are interested in attending the Google Grants Workshop this summer, and did not attend last year's workshop, please <a href="https://spreadsheets2.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZDekNYal9QcVdxcTZKRmkzei1DQUE6MQ">sign-up</a> to enter our invite lottery by July 9th.<br /><br />To take full advantage of this event, we ask for attendance from your organization's AdWords account manager and up to one additional representative per organization. Also, to help us better understand how we can help your non-profit, we'll ask you for some basic information and a brief statement about why your organization would benefit from attending this event. We'll be following up with all interested grantees after the July 9th deadline with the results of the lottery.<br /><br />Have a great summer and we'll see you in September!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristie Mun, AnnMarie Hill, and Michelle Rosen, Google Grants Workshop Organizers</span> </script> <noscript> Over the past few years, the Google Grants team has been working hard to help you, the grantee, make better use of your AdWords account to achieve your organization's goals. We've beefed up our educational resources, added new content to our <a href="//www.google.com/support/grants/">Help Center</a>, and much more to empower you. Towards the same end, we held <a href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-grants-workshop-recap-and-videos.html">our first grantee workshop</a> last summer on our Mountain View, California campus, where 100+ grantees attended a two-day workshop focused on better use of their Google Grants account and awareness of other non-profit offerings from Google. Last year's event was such a success, that we will be holding a second two-day workshop in Mountain View this summer.<br /><br />That's right - we are pleased to announce our second Google Grants Workshop, to be held in Mountain View in early September!<br /><br />During the two-day workshop, grantees will attend AdWords sessions taught by in-house specialists, hear best practices from fellow grantees, and learn about <a href="//www.google.com/nonprofits/">Google for Non-Profits' products</a> that can make an impact on their organization. As with last year's event, we will record workshop sessions and post the videos online from which all can benefit.<br /><br />While we'd love to open this event to all our 6,000+ grantees, we do have a limited number of invitations and will not be able to accommodate everyone. Therefore, we'll be holding a lottery drawing to ensure that we issue invitations fairly. Also, since this workshop will feature similar content to last year's event, we ask that those who attended the previous workshop do not enter the lottery for the 2010 event.<br /><br />If you're a current Google Grants recipient, are interested in attending the Google Grants Workshop this summer, and did not attend last year's workshop, please <a href="https://spreadsheets2.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZDekNYal9QcVdxcTZKRmkzei1DQUE6MQ">sign-up</a> to enter our invite lottery by July 9th.<br /><br />To take full advantage of this event, we ask for attendance from your organization's AdWords account manager and up to one additional representative per organization. Also, to help us better understand how we can help your non-profit, we'll ask you for some basic information and a brief statement about why your organization would benefit from attending this event. We'll be following up with all interested grantees after the July 9th deadline with the results of the lottery.<br /><br />Have a great summer and we'll see you in September!<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristie Mun, AnnMarie Hill, and Michelle Rosen, Google Grants Workshop Organizers</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Announcing the 2010 Google Grants Workshop in Mountain View, Calif&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html' data-url='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-2010-google-grants-workshop.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20for%20Nonprofits%20Blog' rel='tag'> Google for Nonprofits Blog </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Products' rel='tag'> Google Products </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Grantees' rel='tag'> Grantees </a> , <a class='label' href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/search/label/Grants%20Program' rel='tag'> Grants Program </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7051771338092723090' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/search-engine-optimization-seo-for.html' itemprop='url' title='Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for starters'> Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for starters </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, June 15, 2010 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> It’s a single <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac#Special_sauce">special sauce</a> that makes a Big Mac a Big Mac, and even Dr. Pepper has only <a href="http://www.drpepper.com/info/faq/#i">twenty-three flavors</a>. So it’s not without some pride that I say that Google uses over <a href="//www.google.com/corporate/tech.html">200 signals</a> in order to decide how to rank websites in our search results. That’s almost twenty times as many secret ingredients as there are in <a href="http://www.kfc.com/about/secret.asp">KFC’s original recipe</a>!<br /><br />A lot of people want to know what they can do to be the top-ranked result on Google for a particular search. I can’t tell you exactly how to do that—if I did, everyone would be top-ranked and our search results would be a huge mess—but it’s no secret that the top-ranked non-profit sites tend to have useful and original content. That said, even the best content in the world will only take you so far if search engines have trouble accessing or understanding it. Resources like <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a> can help you make sure that your content is search engine friendly and easily found online.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Making Your Content Search Engine Friendly</span><br /><br />Google crawls the web using a software program called Googlebot that visits websites and adds them to our search index (other search engines have similar programs). Googlebot is very smart and capable, but it’s no human. Googlebot can have trouble interpreting pictures or video, and can generally <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=72746">only see text.</a> If the organization name on your homepage is just a big image, then you’ll want to make sure that the name is featured in the title of the page, or <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114016">elsewhere in text</a> so that Googlebot can find it. This holds true for images of event flyers, schedules, contact information, and any content that you want users to be able to find easily. Having this information available in text also makes your website more accessible to users who aren’t able to interact with your site visually.<br /><br />Another thing you can do to help search engines understand your site is to use good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text">anchor text</a>. These are the words that are clickable for a web link—the words ‘anchor text’ in the last sentence are an example of anchor text. Anchor text gives search engines additional context about the content to which you’re linking. Search engine friendly (and user friendly) anchor text describes where the link will take you and doesn’t just say ‘click here.’<br /><br />Unhelpful anchor text: For information about Google Grants, click <a href="//www.google.com/grants">here</a>.<br />Awesome anchor text: To apply for a grant, visit the <a href="//www.google.com/grants">Google Grants website</a>.<br /><br /><br />In the first example, it’s not immediately clear to the user if the link goes to the Google Grants website, or if it goes to a different site with content about Google Grants. The second example tells the user and Googlebot that the link is to the Google Grants website, and it lets Googlebot know that some people are referring to the page at http://www.google.com/grants as the ‘Google Grants website.’<br /><br />These are just two quick tips to make your website easy for search engines to index. For more ways you can make your content search engine friendly, check out the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Using Google Webmaster Tools</span><br /><br />To help you make your site search engine friendly, Google offers <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, a set of tools you can use to see how the Google search engine interacts with your site. You can see which search queries are causing your site to appear in Google’s search results, and also make sure that Googlebot is able to index your site successfully.<br /><br />To get started, you’ll need to visit Webmaster Tools, sign into your account, and add your website. The sign-up process will walk you through the process of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34592">adding your first website</a>, and if you hit a snag there’s a<a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/"> Help Center</a> and a community of webmasters in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum </a>that are always willing to answer questions and help out.<br /><br />Once you’ve added your site to Webmaster Tools, you can see all sorts of interesting information about your site, including <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80407">customized suggestions about changes</a> that will make your site more search engine friendly and a tool that lets you <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587">see your website the way Googlebot sees it</a>.<br /><br />Making your site search engine friendly is just one part of a successful online strategy for your organization, but it can pay off with increased visibility. Search engine optimization may not have the zing of a clever AdWords campaign or the spice of a nicely-designed site, but done well it can be a secret ingredient that helps people find and support your cause online.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Rob Thomas, Search Guru</span> </script> <noscript> It’s a single <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac#Special_sauce">special sauce</a> that makes a Big Mac a Big Mac, and even Dr. Pepper has only <a href="http://www.drpepper.com/info/faq/#i">twenty-three flavors</a>. So it’s not without some pride that I say that Google uses over <a href="//www.google.com/corporate/tech.html">200 signals</a> in order to decide how to rank websites in our search results. That’s almost twenty times as many secret ingredients as there are in <a href="http://www.kfc.com/about/secret.asp">KFC’s original recipe</a>!<br /><br />A lot of people want to know what they can do to be the top-ranked result on Google for a particular search. I can’t tell you exactly how to do that—if I did, everyone would be top-ranked and our search results would be a huge mess—but it’s no secret that the top-ranked non-profit sites tend to have useful and original content. That said, even the best content in the world will only take you so far if search engines have trouble accessing or understanding it. Resources like <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a> can help you make sure that your content is search engine friendly and easily found online.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Making Your Content Search Engine Friendly</span><br /><br />Google crawls the web using a software program called Googlebot that visits websites and adds them to our search index (other search engines have similar programs). Googlebot is very smart and capable, but it’s no human. Googlebot can have trouble interpreting pictures or video, and can generally <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=72746">only see text.</a> If the organization name on your homepage is just a big image, then you’ll want to make sure that the name is featured in the title of the page, or <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114016">elsewhere in text</a> so that Googlebot can find it. This holds true for images of event flyers, schedules, contact information, and any content that you want users to be able to find easily. Having this information available in text also makes your website more accessible to users who aren’t able to interact with your site visually.<br /><br />Another thing you can do to help search engines understand your site is to use good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text">anchor text</a>. These are the words that are clickable for a web link—the words ‘anchor text’ in the last sentence are an example of anchor text. Anchor text gives search engines additional context about the content to which you’re linking. Search engine friendly (and user friendly) anchor text describes where the link will take you and doesn’t just say ‘click here.’<br /><br />Unhelpful anchor text: For information about Google Grants, click <a href="//www.google.com/grants">here</a>.<br />Awesome anchor text: To apply for a grant, visit the <a href="//www.google.com/grants">Google Grants website</a>.<br /><br /><br />In the first example, it’s not immediately clear to the user if the link goes to the Google Grants website, or if it goes to a different site with content about Google Grants. The second example tells the user and Googlebot that the link is to the Google Grants website, and it lets Googlebot know that some people are referring to the page at http://www.google.com/grants as the ‘Google Grants website.’<br /><br />These are just two quick tips to make your website easy for search engines to index. For more ways you can make your content search engine friendly, check out the <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html">Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Using Google Webmaster Tools</span><br /><br />To help you make your site search engine friendly, Google offers <a href="//www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, a set of tools you can use to see how the Google search engine interacts with your site. You can see which search queries are causing your site to appear in Google’s search results, and also make sure that Googlebot is able to index your site successfully.<br /><br />To get started, you’ll need to visit Webmaster Tools, sign into your account, and add your website. The sign-up process will walk you through the process of <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34592">adding your first website</a>, and if you hit a snag there’s a<a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/"> Help Center</a> and a community of webmasters in the <a href="//www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en">Webmaster Help Forum </a>that are always willing to answer questions and help out.<br /><br />Once you’ve added your site to Webmaster Tools, you can see all sorts of interesting information about your site, including <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80407">customized suggestions about changes</a> that will make your site more search engine friendly and a tool that lets you <a href="//www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587">see your website the way Googlebot sees it</a>.<br /><br />Making your site search engine friendly is just one part of a successful online strategy for your organization, but it can pay off with increased visibility. Search engine optimization may not have the zing of a clever AdWords campaign or the spice of a nicely-designed site, but done well it can be a secret ingredient that helps people find and support your cause online.<br /><br /><span class="byline-author">Posted by Rob Thomas, Search Guru</span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/search-engine-optimization-seo-for.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Google for Nonprofits Blog:Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for starters&url=https://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2010/06/search-engine-optimization-seo-for.html&via=googlenonprofit'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' 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