Slides from a well receved session today at NYSAE Technology Institute.

1. Welcome! NYSAE Tech Institute! All Star Cast of Speakers Two Tracks – EZ Tech vs. Tech Ninja Valuable Information Can Act on Today!

2. Welcome! NYSAE Tech Institute!

3. Welcome! NYSAE Tech Institute! Many Thanks to the Technology Committee! Speakers – Kudos for Making This Investment in NYSAE Enjoy your day….

4. Who says life on abudget can’t be fun? Lee Hornstein, Managing Director, (C) Systems, LLC Suzanne Carawan, VP Marketing, etouches Robert Spangler, Director of Marketing NJ Institute of Continuing Legal Education

5. Don’t buy software without first talking to Tech Soup or ccbnonprofits .com

6. Both (C) Systems and NJICLE use Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail It’s free! Unless you want a fully supported version…. (C) Systems paying about $3,500 per year for 35 licenses, fully supported.

7. Google Calendaring Interfaces nicely with Outlook, also interfaces with our in house CRM application….right out of the box! It’s a no brainer back up system!

8. Google Docs Real time document collaboration, document editing, sharing, versioning.

9. Personal Productivity Tools

10. Personal Productivity Tools

11. Personal Productivity Tools

12. Free CRM Applications

14. Google Alerts No Time to Search. Automated Results.

15. Step 1. Go to www.google.com/alerts

16. Step 2. Fill out the form and make your selections.

17. Step 3. View web-based confirmation & wait until email confirmation arrives.

18. Step 4. Confirm Google Alerts in your email inbox. Be ready to receive alerts!

20. Research

21. Ideation

22. Make Connections

24. Step 1. Go to www.wordpress.com.

25. Step 2. Sign Up for New Wordpress Account. Pick a Good Name.

26. Step 3. Write down your thoughts, observations & stories.

27. Step 4. Track your Stats.

29. Conversation

30. Creativity

31. Brand Awareness/Visibility

32. Legacy*Track in Google Alerts!

33. Quora Show What You Know. Give Back.

34. Step 1. Get an Account.

35. Step 2. View Feeds, Follow People, Answer/Post Questions.

36. Step 3. See What People Are Asking. Answer What You Know.

38. Subject Matter Expert

39. Truly Help People

40. Contribute

42. Step 1. Get an Account.

43. Step 2. Fill Out Profile.

44. Step 4. Upload Your Documents, Videos & Presentations.

45. Step 5. View Your Uploads.

46. Step 6. Auto-Social.

48. Shared, Social Archive

49. Body of Work

51. Step 1. Don’t Overcomplicate It.

52. Step 2. What’s the Buzz. Who to Follow.

53. Step 3. Know the Protocols. Tweet It.

54. Step 4. Use Another Tool Other than Twitter.

55. Who Says Life On A Budget Can’t Be Fun? What you can do to not just survive, but thrive without breaking the bank.

56. Outline Free / Inexpensive Tools Corporations – A Constant Source of Ideas Questions

57. World Food Program: A Case Study YouTube’s Free Nonprofit Program The YouTube Nonprofit Program provides for extra benefits like branding capabilities, increased uploading capacity, and call-to-action overlays. Non-profits can use the call-to-action feature to drive sign-ups, donations, website traffic, and any other response in which users take action. This feature was effectively used by the World Food Program to raise $36,000 on World Food Day with a short video.

58. Create A Buzz with Google Buzz Google Buzz has free options for nonprofits. Share updates, photos, videos, and more. Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Buzz is good at combining social media with Gmail – bridging email with social media. Buzz can potentially broadcast a cause marketing campaign to a much larger audience than sites like Twitter. The geo-location feature can give a program a real-time, tangible quality that can’t be replicated on another social media platform.

59. Click Here! – Tracking Your Links Use Bit.ly to see who’s doing what bitly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bitly can be accessed through their website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API.

62. Survey Monkey = Free Focus Groups What is included with a FREE BASIC plan? Create unlimited number of surveys Allows up to 10 questions per survey Choose from 15 available question types 20+ basic survey templates available (Upgrade to a paid plan to use all templates). Supports any language, including Unicode Survey completion progress bar Automatic numbering for pages/questions 15 pre-built survey themes. Validate/require survey responses Randomize/sort answer choices Accessible and 508 compliant and certified surveys (U.S. only) Data Collection Features: *100 responses per survey (Upgrade to a paid plan in order to view additional responses.) Collect responses via weblink, email or facebook, or on your website View live results as they are recorded Browse through individual responses View open-ended comments from the Response Summary page surveymonkey.com

63. Lime Survey What is included with a FREE BASIC plan? Unlimited number of surveys at the same time Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database) Unlimited number of participants to a survey Multi-Lingual Surveys User-Management 20 different question types with more to come WYSIWYG HTML Editor Quotas Management Integration of pictures and movies into a survey Creation of a printable survey version Conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (Skip Logic / Branching) Re-usable editable answer sets Ready-made importable questions Assessment surveys Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey s Open and closed group of participant surveys Optional public registration for surveys Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV, PDF, SPSS, R, queXML and MS Excel format limesurvey.org

64. Google – Your Corporate Intranet Free tools for under 50 users Share calendars like to collaborate on projects and departments Upgrade for $50 to Google Sites -Organize information in a central place -Use Google Sites to centralize documents, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, slideshows and more to help keep teams organized. -Build collaborative sites faster with templates for project workspaces, team sites, intranets and more. -Anytime, anywhere access Google Sites is securely powered by the web, so you can access company pages from your desk, on the road, at home and on your mobile phone. -Works across operating systems Google Sites works in the browser on PC, Mac and Linux computers.

65. Prezi – Online Document Collaboration Work with anyone, anywhere In Prezi Meeting, you can edit and show prezis with up to 9 other users. Generate a link with the click of a button, and send it to fellow Prezi users ― regardless of location. Use the phone― just add audio and you're ready to go. You and your co-editors can see each other's edits in real time in Prezi Meeting. Text and objects appear as they are added by users in the session, making it easy to discuss edits and changes.

67. Allows you to create PDF Files “on the fly”

69. What We Can Learn From Corporations Coca-Cola Conversations is a blog written by company historian Phil Mooney that focuses on Coke collectibles. Ford publishes news releases with lots of multimedia content and employs a social media news release format to display them in their newsroom. Fujifilm recently launched a social network to build a community of photo enthusiasts around its newest camera.

70. What We Can Learn From Corporations H&R Block created a Facebook fan site to aggregate its social media activities, engage customers and offer tax advice/resources. HP used Twitter to power a scavenger hunt at a recent conference. (345k results on google) HSBC built the HSBC Business Network to connect entrepreneurs using blogs, videos and forums.

71. Social Media = Customer Service $avings Think of page views to a blog post about a new product or feature, or clicks on a Tweeted support link as less expensive calls into your call center. If it costs $50 every time a member of your staff picks up the phone, imagine 100 clicks from fans or followers on a “how-to video” as a cost saving. You might have data that says 30 per cent of your customers call in for more information–you’ve just saved $1,500.