This document provides an overview of a training webinar on 50 tech tips that attendees should know. It introduces the moderator and three panelists who will be sharing their tips. It reminds participants to enter their audio pin if joining by phone and to adjust their microphone volumes if joining by computer. It also notes that the training will be recorded and made available online later.

1. Welcome to the LSNTAP/PBN Training!
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4. QUESTIONS?
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5. TODAY’S TRAINING…
…is being recorded
…will be archived on our website
► Registered attendees will receive an email
with a link to this information once it has
been posted

6. 50 Tech Tips You Should
Absolutely Know
September 28, 2011
Moderator: Travis August, Pro Bono Net

7. Panelists
Patrick Noonan
Minnesota Legal Services Coalition, St. Paul, MN
Kate Bladow
Technola, Baltimore, MD
Tony Lu
Pro Bono Net, New York, NY

8. Patrick
Noonan
Minnesota
Legal
Services
Coali5on

9. Cacoo Create And Share Nifty Flowcharts Online

10. 280slides.Com Powerpoint Presentations Online

11. Colibri Quickly Find Programs On Your Computer

12. Doc Scanner
Convert Photos To PDFs – iPhone, Android, Mac

13. JPEG Mini
Drastically Reduces The File Size Of Any JPEG

14. LawStack A Legal Library in Your Pocket

15. OneLook Reverse Dictionary
What’s the word for that?

16. W3schools.com Learn web programming languages for free!

17. WhatTheFont – from MyFonts
What’s that font? Upload a pic of it to find out.

18. WhenIsGood Another Handy Meeting Scheduler

19. Kuler – Color Themes
Makes it look like you know something about color

20. Google SMS – Text to “466453”
Search Google with a simple text message

21. Jing – techsmith.com/jing
Desktop image and video capture

22. Universal Decision Maker
“For when flipping a coin just seems so 20th Century”

23. Kate
Bladow
Techno.la

24. Square
• Use your mobile phone
to swipe credit cards.
• Free reader, free app, &
2.75% transaction fee.
• https://squareup.com/

25. HelpAttack!
Challenge your
supporters to make
their tweets and
Facebook posts
count.
http://helpattack.com/

26. LinkedIn Nonprofits
Tips for nonprofit
professionals on
how to use
LinkedIn well.
http://learn.linkedin.com/nonprofits/

27. JustCoz.org
Have your supporters
donate tweets to help
you spread awareness.
http://justcoz.org/

28. Flickr Creative Commons Search
Find free pictures
you can use legally
in publications and
blog posts.
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?

29. Creative Commons Attributions
Don't forget to attribute the items you use.
http://inpropriapersona.com/2010/01/how-to-write-attributions-for-
the-creative-commons-licensed-images-you-use-on-your-blog/

30. Meetup.com
Find groups that
interest you and
new people to
network with.
http://www.meetup.com/

31. Local Tech Community
http://learn.linkedin.com/nonprofits/

32. Creativity
Don't write off odd ideas.
They might make
good campaigns.
http://chrisashworth.org/blog/2011/09/01/slow-clap-for-congress/

33. Creativity

34. The Noun Project
Collection of free, easy-to-understand icons.
http://thenounproject.com/

35. Google Calendar Appointment Slots
1 Set up appointment slots
on your calendar.
2 Send link to your contact.

36. Google
Calendar
Appointment
Slots
3 Your contact reserves a time to meet.

37. Team
Cymru's
YouTube
Channel
A weekly video
series exploring
computer
security trends.
http://www.youtube.com/teamcymru

38. NTEN's Quarterly Journal, Change
A resource for
nonprofit leaders who
want help making
sound technology
investments.
http://www.nten.org/ntenchange

39. Tony
Lu
Pro
Bono
Net

40. …more text

41. Plain Text Files
► Small, lightweight and portable
► Future-proof and platform-agnostic
► Great for writing drafts
► Canbe read and edited easily on
mobile devices
Notepad on
TextEdit on Mac Windows

42. Rich Text Format
Plain-text too plain? Fine.
Use Rich Text Format (RTF)
Think of it as .doc/.docx-lite
All the formatting you need.
None of the bloat.
Wordpad for Windows 7

43. ResophNotes / Notational Velocity
So you want to be a plain-text ninja?
Create new text documents and search within text documents
instantly.
Free. Instantly.
Notational Velocity
Did I mention instantly? (Mac)
ResophNotes
(Win)

44. ResophNotes / Notational Velocity

45. Simplenote (simplenoteapp.com)
- =
Evernote minus all the stuff you don’t need all the time equals simplenote.
(photos, web-clipping, audio, video)

46. Keyboard App Launchers
Launchy and LaunchBar
Launch applications or websites with a few keystrokes.

47. ifttt (If This Then That)
ifttt.com
Sort of like the pipes that connect the internet.
If a photo is tagged with your name in it,
automatically save it to dropbox.
Archive all your tweets to your Evernote
account.
Create a calendar event for every Foursquare
check-in.

48. Text Substitution Tools
ActiveWords (Win) or TextExpander (Mac)
Type an abbreviation or key-phrase: “,,addy”
And get:
Atticus Finch
1234 Mockingbird Lane
Maycomb County, AL 36460
In 4 weeks of light use, saved 26,204
characters typed, for a savings of over 1 hour.

49. Password Security!
Password Keepers
LastPass 1Password
Use a different password for every site.
(Seriously. Try.)
Change your password(s) twice a year with
the clocks.

50. Search for email, don’t sort
Sorting email into folders is an artifact of a
physical paradigm. Makes no sense.
Gmail is great at
search, but if you
use Outlook, try
Xobni or Neo Email
Organizer

51. Stop Trying to Schedule by Email!
No more fifty-email
threads to get 4 people
together on the phone!

52. Google Grab Bag
Offline Gmail, Calendars, Docs
(still early days)
Google+ Hangouts – New Features
- Broadcasting
- Screen-Sharing
- Mobile Hangouts
- API

53. Google Grab Bag (continued)
Google Flight Search
www.google.com/flights
or
Just enter
“New York to San
Francisco”
in the Google
search bar

54. What to Do With Those Old Gadgets?
eBay and Craigslist are okay… but have you
seen gazelle.com?
► Cash for old stuff! (almost any old
electronics)
► They recycle stuff (responsibly) that they
can’t sell.
► Gazellefor Good – get donors to send in
gadgets, money goes to your org.

55. Travis
August
Pro
Bono
Net

56. Maryfi
► Turn any computer with Wifi into a
hotspot
► Wirelessly share any Internet
connection: cable modem, a
cellular card, or another Wi-Fi
network
► Free, ad-supported
► http://www.maryfi.com/

57. Mobiola WebCamera
► Turn your smartphone camera into a WiFi-connected
webcam for your desktop computer
► Acts like a USB webcam
► Works with USB
streaming apps
(like the Webcasting module)
► http://www.warelex.com/mobiola-web-camera

58. Browsealoud
► Embedded widget reads your website to users
► Free to end users

59. Go!Animate
► Animate videos without being an artist
► Sacramento
Law Library
http://www.saclaw.lib.ca.us/video2/personal-service.htm

60. FEMA Mobile Emergency Kit
► FEMA Android mobile app
► Check off the items you have in your family’s emergency kit
► Enter your family emergency meeting locations,
► Review safety tips on what to do before, during and after a
disaster
► View a map of shelters and disaster recovery centers
across the U.S.
http://blog.fema.gov/2011/08/new-digital-tools-fema-app-and-text.html
► FEMA Tech Tips
http://www.ready.gov/america/getakit/tech.html

61. iMacros
► Record web browsing
► Play back to automate tasks
► Feed it data to do a lot of tasks
► Fill out forms and upload hundreds of
documents with one click

62. Paper.li
► Turn Twitter, RSS, and other feeds into online newspaper

63. Hyve
► Check-in app for business and organizations
► Instead of places, check-in to projects, customers, and
clients
► Goals
► Reduce email
► Increase transparency and accountability
► Reduce collaboration overhead

64. Thoora
► “intersection of aggregation, curation and search”

65. Boxmeup
► “intersection of paranoia, obsession, and geekiness”
► http://boxmeupapp.com/

66. THANK
YOU
FOR
ATTENDING
TODAY!
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12
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2
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