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231 Articles match "2007","Software"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Elements Gallery, which was introduced in Office for Mac 2008, had tremendous untapped potential, especially for users who have experienced significantly improved productivity gains after using the ribbon interface from Office 2007 for Windows. Tags: Office & Productivity Softwar Here's a story Mac users might get a kick out of: while the rest of the world patiently awaits a definite release date for Office 2010 , there's been relatively little information from Microsoft about the suite's Mac sibling, Office 2011, aside from the announcement last August that Entourage will be replaced by a Mac version of Outlook .
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Buried below the Mail, Calendar and Task buttons, you can move it up to the visible button list by right-clicking on the bar area (in the lower-left hand corner of Outlook 2003 or 2007's screen) and choosing "Navigation Pane Options". Tags: Social Networking software Google Web 2.0 ...or you might.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Guest writer Joshua Porter contributed the article in 2007, but his advice is as fresh and pertinent as ever. Tags: Multimedia & Graphics Software Using the Web and Internet Web Building Web Buildin This week, the newsletter featured an older TechSoup article, Five Principles to Design By . These tips aren't only about design: they're about keeping people at the center of your nonprofit's projects, not technology.
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
The other is simplification of the software. What is the difference between CRM and Membership Management? Isn't the latter just CRM for a member-based organization? This is the kind of discussion you hear over Italian cold-cuts on a ciabatta at our office. The answer is: not really.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
For the past four years or so, at two different organizations, I've been evaluating Microsoft's Sharepoint 2007 as a Portal/Intranet/Business Process Management solution. As I said a year or two ago in an article on document management systems , it has virtually all of the functionality that the expensive, commercial products do, and they aren't full-fledged portals and Intranet sites as well. Sharepoint 2007 (aka MOSS) is not free, but I can pick it up via Techsoup for a song. It integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Office , to some extent, as well as my Windows Directory,
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
What she does not dwell on is that Myspace is fundementally different from business software - it is not critical to most users' bottom lines. Let's look at this "cultural" difference among the staff of non-profit organizations using our Members Only software. These costs and risks actually differ significantly between organizations, so the evolution of different cultures around software installation is not at all irrational. Browsing through some old posts in the always worthwhile Creating Passionate Users blog, I came across this interesting post from last March: Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane .
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Because we want to keep up with new software, and we’re never going to have the programmers to keep up. Do you think of your efforts as trying to draw new audiences into the museum or reach out to meet them where they are? I think about it as going to them rather than the audience coming to us. Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 to support programs and exhibits.
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
My good friend Adriano Pianesi , the former trainer at Members Only Software, has taken the bull by the horns and announced the creation of his own training consultancy, Participaction . But its not the software guys who know this. Mission critical software rollouts have broad implications for the way people work. Take a look at this site - you'll see his approach goes way beyond drilling users on what button to click when. Adriano and I have had some long conversations over the years about how to best provide the training organizations need to make effective use of
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
I'm working on a screencast (Google Analytics) and I'm not an expert in using the software. Do you stick to your comfort zone and only make screencasts on the topics that you know like the back of your hand or do you stretch and venture into a topic or software that is not only new territory but may be difficult to learn? What I really like about screencasting is that it has helped me learn about software and technology. Click To Play
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
NTEN sponsored a session on video games for social change in 2007 to in part address this point. Tags: Gaming software Web 2.0 A common goal of modern websites is to provide opportunities to engage. Rather than simply reading and watching, we want to encourage folks to give us feedback, to subscribe, to volunteer, to sign up for an event, to donate or purchase something, to collaborate.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier. Aside from the usual mechanisms, I think blogs like Susie's Blog that focus on nonprofit adoption of open source software and screencasts can be useful tools.
I was delighted to discover another nonprofit technology screencaster, one who is using Open Source tools to boot!
James
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Friday, April 27, 2007
This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. Young Einstein
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
I love the slideshow from the good folks from Atlassian Software www.atlassian.com . There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog . In addition to specific software, there were some general tips and considerations discussed:
It gives me another opportunity to thank Jeffrey S. Walker again for donating the t-shirts that are in high demand.
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