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    <title>NASCO Institute 2009 Handout</title>
    <dateModified>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:37:45 +0000</dateModified>
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    <outline text="Andy Wolber">
      <outline text="Email andy@mnaonline.org"/>
      <outline text="Phone 313-394-1991"/>
      <outline text="Twitter http://www.twitter.com/awolber"/>
      <outline text="TechGuide http://techguide.npowermichigan.org"/>
      <outline text="Slides http://www.slideshare.net/npowermichigan"/>
      <outline text="Bookmarks http://www.delicious.com/npowermichigan"/>
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    <outline text="Introduction">
      <outline text="&quot;Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker guide to working smarter, faster, better.&quot; http://www.lifehacker.com/.  Link to the book on Amazon.com: http://j.mp/4scqPx. "/>
      <outline text="&quot;Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working from GigaOM's Web Worker Daily.&quot; http://www.webworkerdaily.com/. Link to the book on Amazon.com: http://j.mp/4teZly."/>
      <outline text="URL shorteners enable link shortening (obviously). More importantly, they enable tracking: http://j.mp/"/>
      <outline text="Resources http://www.drop.io/andywolber"/>
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    <outline text="Some Basics...">
      <outline text="&quot;A Guide to Managing ICT in the Voluntary and Community Sector&quot; http://j.mp/1d5Huz"/>
      <outline text="Scan for viruses, spyware and malware">
        <outline text="Do a complete system scan for viruses using http://housecall.trendmicro.com"/>
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      <outline text="Protect against viruses and malware">
        <outline text="If you do not already have current anti-virus software, install Microsoft Security Essentials at http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/. This may be installed on all up-to-date Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 systems."/>
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      <outline text="Configure OpenDNS.com">
        <outline text="OpenDNS improves security by providing web content filtering and anti-phishing. Follow the instructions at https://www.opendns.com/start/ to configure DNS for your computer, router or DNS server."/>
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      <outline text="Defragment your hard drive">
        <outline text="Download and install Auslogics' Disk Defrag program from http://j.mp/4ofVX8. Install and use this program to defragment your hard drive. The program typically completes defragmenting your files much more quickly than Microsoft's built-in defragmentation software."/>
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      <outline text="Backup ">
        <outline text="Small and mid-sized nonprofits commonly used tape or external hard drives for backup purposes. New alternatives, such as Mozy Pro (http://mozy.com/non-profit) and JungleDisk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) provide affordable, off-site, automated backup over the Internet."/>
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      <outline text="Network Attached Storage">
        <outline text="Synology (http://www.synology.com/)"/>
        <outline text="QNAP (http://www.qnap.com/)"/>
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      <outline text="Purchasing at a discount">
        <outline text="http://www.TechSoup.com/products provides discounted software (and a small amount of hardware, such as the Flip videocamera) to registered nonprofits. Be sure to check the vendor restrictions!"/>
        <outline text="http://www.giftsinkind.org/"/>
        <outline text="http://www.cdw.com/content/segments/nonprofit.aspx"/>
        <outline text="http://www.ccbnonprofits.com/"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Remote access to a computer for free:http://www.logmein.com. Note that this does require software installation and the computer to be on. (For on-the-go troubleshooting of another person computer, consider http://www.zolved.com/remote_control.)"/>
      <outline text="http://www.getdropbox.com simplifies file syncing across multiple computers and mobile devices."/>
      <outline text="http://www.xmarks.com/ syncs bookmarks between browsers on multiple computers."/>
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    <outline text="Meetings">
      <outline text="http://www.MeetingWizard.com/ streamlines the process of scheduling a multi-person meeting."/>
      <outline text="http://www.tungle.com/ enables calendar syncing, with the intent of making it simpler for others to schedule a meeting with you."/>
      <outline text="http://www.FreeConferenceCall.com/ provides free conference calling. The dial-in number is typically a long-distance number, so the parties involved in the conference each pay whatever long-distance fees they would typically incur by dialing that number."/>
      <outline text="Idealware.org provides a variety of reports of software and tools relevant to the nonprofit sector. A typical article is their &quot;A Few Good Online Conferencing Tools&quot; at http://j.mp/lPQnl."/>
      <outline text="http://www.DimDim.com/ and http://www.Yugma.com/ both provide free web conferencing tools for small groups (up to 15-20 participants). Paid versions typically support up to 50 participants at a cost of around $250 annually."/>
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    <outline text="Google Apps">
      <outline text="The Google Apps Education Edition is available free if you have fewer than 3,000 users. More information on all of Google Nonprofit offerings at http://www.google.com/nonprofits/."/>
      <outline text="Support for setting up Google Apps is available online: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&amp;guide=22229&amp;topic=22241#148995. "/>
      <outline text="Video explanations of Google Apps can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleApps. "/>
      <outline text="For additional tips, take a look at the book Google Apps Hacks by Philipp Lenssen."/>
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    <outline text="Website">
      <outline text="Link to participating organizations' websites: http://LinkBun.ch/g8jo. Note that Linkbun.ch enables you to share a SINGLE link that opens a page with LOTS of other links. It's a great way to share a list of resources with one link."/>
      <outline text="Dreamhost provides free hosting for approved nonprofits (see http://j.mp/DreamhostFree). They have a very easy-to-deploy process for setting up Wordpress and several other content management systems."/>
      <outline text="Many small nonprofits use Paypal to accept donations. The process for setting this up is online at https://www.paypal.com/nonprofits"/>
      <outline text="Overview of many other alternatives and resources at TechSoup: http://blog.techsoup.org/node/530. (The TechSoup blog is in transition. If this link doesn't work, see resources available about online donations at www.Idealware.org, as well.)"/>
      <outline text="Website traffic information">
        <outline text="Google Analytics provides useful information about your website traffic: http://analytics.google.com. Even better, it is free."/>
        <outline text="&quot;50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics&quot; posting at Network For Good's website: http://j.mp/21PZWL."/>
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      <outline text="Email">
        <outline text="Email remains the most effective way to drive traffic to a site. Useful analysis of email campaigns and tactics found in the eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, online at http://www.e-benchmarksstudy.com/"/>
        <outline text="Training on various online campaign strategies at http://www.fundraising123.org/training/"/>
        <outline text="Vertical Response provides some nonprofits with free email campaign tools: http://bit.ly/4nxmHs"/>
        <outline text="http://www.ConstantContact.com is also widely used. (They also just entered the event registration market.)"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="http://www.AllForGood.org is an aggregator of volunteer opportunities"/>
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    <outline text="Social Media">
      <outline text="Solid research and case studies of social media adoption from Forrester Reseach. Book is titled Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. More info here: http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell. "/>
      <outline text="The Case Foundation resources and example site: http://j.mp/3gVTse"/>
      <outline text="American Red Cross guide: http://j.mp/2FKJsn"/>
      <outline text="Widely read nonprofit blogger, Beth Kanter (http://j.mp/NxTzk) posted a great video showing advanced RSS feed manipulating &quot;Filtering Your Feeds: Marshall's Yahoo Pipes Screencast&quot;. Her main blog is at http://beth.typepad.com."/>
      <outline text="Twitter">
        <outline text="http://www.FutureTweets.com/ enables scheduled Twittering."/>
        <outline text="http://www.coTweet.com/ enables multiple users and multiple accounts to use Twitter."/>
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      <outline text="http://Ping.fm/ simplifies publishing your posts to multiple social networks."/>
      <outline text="http://www.posterous.com/ can aggregate postings FROM multiple sites and/or simplify posting TO multiple social media sites. It also enables simple posting from email."/>
      <outline text="SMS">
        <outline text="http://www.Textmarks.com provides ad-supported text response or broadcast services, or paid-versions are available.  Try sending &quot;npowermi&quot; to 41411, for example."/>
        <outline text="Sample of how these type of apps are evolving on campuses: http://www.mbusreloaded.com/."/>
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      <outline text="Social media policies">
        <outline text="Top 10 Guidelines: http://j.mp/HHfRa"/>
        <outline text="Social Media Governance policy examples: http://j.mp/3z9mDS."/>
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      <outline text="Private, Twitter-like collaboration available at http://www.yammer.com, http://www.present.ly, and http://j.mp/Socialtext."/>
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    <outline text="Databases ">
      <outline text="www.HelpSpot.com example software available for purchase or hosting (http://j.mp/HostedHelpSpot)."/>
      <outline text="Low-cost, integrated membership management, event and website software as a service: http://www.WildApricot.com"/>
      <outline text="Hosted database platform">
        <outline text="http://www.SalesforceFoundation.org provides up to 10 Enterprise user licenses to nonprofit organizations for their online database service."/>
        <outline text="http://www.SalesforceFoundation.org/resources has links to most of the key resources you'll need to learn more or leverage Salesforce for your nonprofit."/>
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    <outline text="Mashups">
      <outline text="http://www.flickr.com/map provide geographic mapping of shared photos."/>
      <outline text="http://www.mapalist.com takes addresses from a Google spreadsheet, then maps them using Google Maps (or Google Earth)."/>
      <outline text="More mapping resources in this article from CNET: http://j.mp/aBoGc."/>
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    <outline text="Great resource for Web 2.0-type apps: http://go2web20.net. "/>
    <outline text="On-going resource bookmarking at http://www.delicious.com/NPowerMichigan"/>
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