how i learned to stop worrying and love the tech
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Jane and Tierney present several tools that nonprofits can use to streamline their work. My Charity Connects 2012TRANSCRIPT
How I learned to stop worrying
and love the tech
TechSoup Canada
Tierney Smith, Jane Zhang
About TechSoup Canada
Our Team
Our Goal: Plan a Net Tuesday Event
Event description
Event registration
Send invites
Share files
Jane vs. Tierney!
So many tools… how to decide?
1. Ask the expert
2. Ask the community
3. What do we need?
Goal: Document collaboration
Criteria:
• Real time updates
• Cross Platform compatibility
• Versioning
Event description
Event description
Google Apps Office 365
Cost Free for < 10 users
Or $5/user/month
$7/user/month (<25
users)
$9.5/user/month (>25
users)
Quick notes Simple
Good integration with
3rd party apps
Smooth integration
with MS Office
Can share easily
Favourite
thing
Real time editing Offline Editing
But there’s more…
Google Apps & Office 365 are both alternatives
for replacing your core infrastructure
• Calendars
• Documents
• Sites
• Chat
• & more
Demo: Google Apps
Favourite Thing: real time editing
Demo: Office 365
Favourite Thing: Offline editing
Goal: easy way for attendees to register online
Critieria:
• Free/paid events
• Manage attendees
• Print & export list of attendees
Event registration
Event registration
Eventbrite Guestlist
Cost Free events: free
Charities: 2% + $0.99
Other: 2.5% + $0.99
Free events: free
Charities: free
Other: 2%
Quick notes Tons of features
Nice interface
Great integration w 3rd
party apps
Simple
Nice interface
Favourite
thing
Feature rich Simple
Demo: Eventbrite
Favourite Thing: Feature rich
Demo: Guestlist
Favourite Thing: simple
Share-Pairs (5 min)
• Based on the first two challenges, what is
one thing you can do differently next week?
Or…
• What is one challenge you experience in your
work where technology could help you save
time?
Goal: invite our audience to the event
Criteria :
• Segment audience
• Make it easy to look nice
Send invites
Send invites
MailChimp Vertical
Response
Cost Free for < 2,000
subscribers
Charities & nonprofits?:
15% discount
Charities: free for <
10,000 emails/month,
15% discount for more
Quick notes Nice interface
Tons of features
Great integration with
3rd party apps
Great segmentation
Tons of features
Some integration with
3rd party apps
Favourite
thing
Integration Segmentation
Demo: MailChimp
Favourite Thing: integration
Demo: Vertical Response
Favourite Thing: segmentation
Goal: share presentation file with team; give
attendees a link to presentation
Criteria:
• Lots of storage for low cost
• Sync docs across many platforms
• Controlled sharing of folders
• Option to share publicly
Share files
Share files
Google Drive SkyDrive
Cost Free: 5GB
100GB/$60
Free: 7GB
100GB/$50
Quick notes Brings your Google
Docs & files into 1 place
Remote file sharing
Can share with non-
SkyDrive users easily
Favourite
thing
Google integration MS Office Integration
Demo: SkyDrive
Favourite Thing: Microsoft integration
Demo: Google Drive
Favourite Thing: Google integration
Bringing it all together
At the end of the day, it’s about:
•What do you need?
•What tools are you already using?
•What infrastructure do you already
have?
•What is the culture of your
organization?
Questions?