GNL Community Service Fair

Improving Operations With technology information, products and community Jeanne Bolds, president-elect, Greater Naples Leadership, Inc. Birgit Pauli-Haack, CEO & founder, Pauli Systems, LC

Playing Field

Web 2.0 Software
Social networking sites:
User generated content
Methods of data exchange and integration
And user rating and other sharing behavior.

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps
Free for nonprofit organizations
Gmail
Calendar
Google Docs
Blogger
Check-out

Google Apps: Gmail
Best spam filter
5GB space for each account
Users can set-up their own auto-responders, etc.
Best web-based UI + POP capable.
No dependencies on other outside hosting company or in-house e-mail server

Google Apps: Calendar
Built-in sharing
Invitations from Gmail interface
Public areas shared on web site
Fast interface
Data API to other calendar programs

Google Apps: Google Docs
Documents
Spreadsheets
Presentations
Real-time collaboration
Revision history
Supports multiple formats
Cross-browser/cross-platform
Caveat: Does not yet provide a full feature set from any office software. But 80% of the people use only 20 % of the features anyway.

Google: Blogger
Need a web site quickly and free?
Provides RSS feed
Easy text interface
Easy picture upload
Easy integration of other content like RSS feeds or YouTube videos, etc.
Many layout templates

Google: Check-out
Through Dec 31, 2008 501c (3) organizations collect online donations through Google check-out for free.
After that there will be a charge of 2% of the amount+ $0.20 per transaction

Online Data Management
Member, donor or client information
Remote access
Secure storage
Exportability
Expandability

Online Directory

Constant Contact
Professional e-mail communications with
survey component
Easy-to-use templates
Announcements
Newsletters
Invitations
Surveys

Constant Contact: Newsletters
E-mails are
HTML format tested
Include images
Personalized

Constant Contact: Personalized Letters

Constant Contact: Surveys

Constant Contact: Reporting

Constant Contact: Tracking

Constant Contact: Support & Pricing
Search answers
Webinars
Tutorials
Online discussion
E-mail support
Call support

Summary: Advantages of SaaS
No need to own software
No upgrading necessary
Data stored on server
Easy to use
Remote access
Predictable costs

TechSoup
Library
News & articles
Discussion forums
TechSoup Stock - discounted & donated products

TechSoup Stock Register & Qualify : An individual needs to register first, and then registers the organization and then becomes the agent for the organization. At this point make sure you keep written records on who is the registered agent at TechSoup for your organization and keep that information with the rest of the username/password pairs of the organization…. BTW: Where do you keep ALL the username/passwords??

TechSoup Stock
Study Requirements for Purchase per Vendor
ie: Microsoft: six titles, 50 licenses in two years
ie: Adobe: four separate products or a single suite product, but only certain kind of organizations.
Read the fine print .

TechSoup Stock Examples Retail $200 – 300 Retail $300 – 400 Retail $1,799

NTEN - Resources
Webinars
Discussion groups
Research/Surveys
501 Tech Club SWFL

NTEN Resources

501 Tech Club SWFL
Facilitated by Naples Free-Net
Education on Web 2.0 and other topics
Exchange of experience
Pool resources and find competent technology partners to support the local nonprofit community.

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GNL Community Service Fair

by Birgit Pauli-Haack on Feb 11, 2008

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