How to achieve big outcomes on a small IT budget
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How to achieve big outcomes on a small IT budget
- 1. How to achieve big outcomes on a small IT budget Ryan Jones
- 2. Connecting Up Unleashing the power of your not-for-profit
- 8. Video and photo editing
- 10. Connecting Up’s Donation and Discount Program
- 11. Microsoft
- 12. Adobe
- 13. Anti-virus
- 14. Computers
- 15. Networks
- 16. Questions
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- Discover how your NFP can benefit from low-cost and free technology, applications and online tools, and access donations from major software providers.
- 31 year old not-for-profitAdelaide basedPrograms in Australia, New Zealand and Asia PacificBest known for our technology donations program, formerly known as DonorTec
- Google Analytics has become the benchmark online analytics package. It can tell you who visited your web site when. It can then tell you how long that person spent on your web site, where they were, what browser they used, whether they were on their mobile phone, tablet or computer, and a lot more!It also integrates with other Google tools such as Google Adwords to help you track return on investment for online advertising, and track conversions for things like web site signups, donations, etc.It’s completely free and a must have for every web site.
- Hootsuite is a complete social media management dashboard, which has a free version and a low cost teams version.It allows you to better work as a team to manage social media in your organisation. Even simple things by showing who has responded to a tweet, or being able to allocate a question from Facebook or Twitter to the person in your social media team best placed to answerIt also provides tools to better track the effectiveness of your social media efforts, providing you with trackable links which tell you whether your followers are clicking on links you share on social media.Hootsuite can manage multiple accounts from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, and more.
- MailChimp is a leading online email newsletter tool. It allows you to easily produce email newsletters from templates, send them through MailChimp’s servers, and manage subscribers.Perhaps the best part is that MailChimp provides complete analytics. You know who opens your emails, where they do, what program they use, and what links they click.MailChimp is free for organisations with less than 2000 subscribers who send less than 12,000 emails per month, you just have to include a small MailChimp logo in the footer.For organisations that need a paid account, MailChimp offer a 15% discounts for not-for-profits and charities.
- Online notebooks are a great invention. Using the power of the cloud, you can write notes to meetings up on your laptop, and have them instantly available on your phone, tablet and desktop computer. You can then email your notes directly at the end of a meeting, saving time.Evernote is one of the most popular versions, which is free for the basic version, but they offer a premium version that supports shared notebooks and offline viewing of notebooks.OneNote is Microsoft’s version, which integrates with Microsoft Office and has many of the same features.
- Cloud file sharing is the way of the future. You get a pool of online data storage that you can instantly share with anyone who needs it.Need to share large files with your printer? Share a folder instantly.Need to give your designer access to all your assets? Two clicks.Left an important file at home? It’s already synced on your work computer.Access files from your mobile, tablet, laptop, desktops, or any web browser instantly.Some of the major cloud file sharing providers are Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive and Sugar Sync.As with many of these tools, there are free versions, and then you can pay for more space, version control, and team features.If you’re not using one of these tools yet, this is one tool you will never go back from.
- If you’re looking to do basic photo or video editing, there is bound to be a free tool available for you to use, which may have even come with your computer!If you have a Windows PC, you can download Windows Essentials free from Microsoft. This includes Windows Photo Gallery for viewing and sorting photos, and Windows Movie Maker, which is a great entry level video editing program. It may even already be on your computer!If you have a Mac, then your computer probably came with iLife, which includes iMovie for video editing, iPhoto for basic photo editing, and Garageband for producing and recording music. This great bundle gives you everything you need to get started in video editing.Google’s excellent Picasa program is also great for photo management, and is available for Mac and PC.
- Google Apps for Nonprofits - Email hosting for nonprofits – store up to 25GB of email - 5GB of docs on Google Drive - 24/7 supportGoogle Grants - Online advertising grant on Google AdwordsYouTube for nonprofits - Special set of tools for nonprofits to best use online video to their advantageGoogle Earth - Free licence for Google Earth Pro, which allows more advanced mapping.
- Symantec donate their Symantec Enterprise and Norton home ranges.Kaspersky and Sophos discount their enterprise anti-virus solutions.
- Cisco donationsD-Link discounts