GoogleGoogle for Non-Profits Group

Google has just announced that on Wednesday, June 11, the Google for Non-Profits Group will become a fully open discussion group. Since the group was started a few months ago, it was only used for the rare announcement from Google regarding the Google for Non-Profits launch and this most recent announcement. Now members will be able to post their own messages and have a dialogue with others in the nonprofit community. Even though the group is not yet an open forum, you can still join the more than 4000 others who have already joined by visiting the Google for Non-Profits Group page and clicking “Join the Group” in the right column. Of course, a free Google account is required to join.

Google has said that all registered members of the group will receive an email on Wednesday “that includes a community charter with guidelines for taking advantage of the discussion.” Google will be working closely from volunteer members of the nonprofit community to assist with implementation of the group.

Google for NonProfits on YouTube

Google’s other big announcement was their recent launch of a new YouTube channel called Google for Nonprofits.  The first video on the new channel was Google 101 Implementation, a video created by the Ann Arbor, MI team how the Ann Arbor Friends of CASA has used Google tools to create a website, create documents and accept donations.  Google has added three favorite videos for a total of four videos in the channel.  Hopefully there will be additional videos added to this resource.

[Editor’s Note: On this blog I use the spelling nonprofit while Google uses non-profit.  However, the YouTube channel is spelled without the “-”.  That is the reason for the spelling inconsistency in this post.]

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