Mike Tholfsen, Principal Program Manager for OneNote at Microsoft, recently demonstrated the basic features of the tool in a Solutions Center webinar. Teams can also sync their work to the organization’s SharePoint server, providing another level of integration with Christian Aid’s existing systems.Īs mentioned before, OneNote has a plethora of features to help teams enhance productivity.
There was also a very small learning curve OneNote includes the same functionality of the other suite applications, like inserting a photo in a Word document, so many of the tool’s features are intuitive for those already familiar with Microsoft products.
OneNote’s offline features, like search and cache-to-sync for content, made it a great fit for Christian Aid, since their teams work in a variety of overseas environments. Wiki had proved to be time consuming – particularly when adding photos and media to listings – and didn’t have offline capabilities. Its integration with Outlook and auto-sync-to-Cloud makes OneNote a perfect fit for nonprofits that work in challenging environments with a variety of devices and limited connectivity.Ĭhristian Aid’s Duncan Drury said that his team was looking for a collaborative document space to replace their wikis. Nonprofits, like most organizations, are familiar with Microsoft’s Word, PowerPoint and Excel tools, yet there is one application also included in the Office suite that is sometimes overlooked: OneNote.Ĭoined the “hidden gem” of the bundle by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, OneNote may be one of the most robust tools of the bunch – with seemingly no functionality overlooked when it comes to collaboration and digital workspace organization.