When times are tough do you cut your communciations budget first or last? Is this the time to get out and tell people how great you are to raise funds, or keep your head down, rein in all your costs and hope for a big bid to come through pronto? The people at NGO.Media have [...]
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Credit crunch communications for charities
Posted in ict champion, wisdom on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Upgrading to QuickBooks Pro 2008: A Warning
Posted in accounting, ict champion, icthub, quickbooks, scipmark, scipnews on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quickbooks is a very popular accounting package, often used by organisations that have graduated from using spreadsheets but who don’t need the full power of Sage. Given its popularity it’s interesting to see 12 out of 12 stinking reviews on Amazon, including one that simply says ‘Whatever you do don’t upgrade to Quickbooks Pro 2008′. [...]
Free manuals for open source products
Posted in floss, ict champion, icthub, nfptech, open source, scipmark, scipnews on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Floss Manuals is a great website that lets you build manuals for a wide range of free software. You can pick and choose which software you want to know about and it will build a manual that you can download as a pdf. There are loads of free open source tools out there that can [...]
SurveyMonkey is accessible
Posted in free tools, ict champion, ictchampion, icthub, scipmark, scipnews on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do you need to run online surveys? There are lots of free tools for building surveys on websites but one of the easiest to use and most popular is Survey Monkey. It’s now been certified as fully accessible, which means it can be used by people who use screen readers, such as blind people. It [...]
Do you get the most from Word?
Posted in ict champion, icthub, scipmark, scipnews on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the age of Google Docs, websites and wikis Microsoft Word may feel like a dinosaur to some, whilst many will be stumped by the bewildering range of functions and short cuts and menus it offers. It remains a valuable tool for many tasks, however, and not least when preparing and collaborating on long reports. [...]
The fine art of making a presentation
Posted in "circuit rider" scipmark, ict champion, icthub, nfptech, scipnews on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just stumbled across a wonderful example of how tools such as Powerpoint and graphs and charts can be a tool for powerful and highly effective communications. I urge you to watch it through to the end to remind you just what makes a great presentation work – and also because it’s about world poverty [...]
A search engine you can vote on
Posted in ict champion, icthub, p2b, scipmark, scipnews on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Swicki is a new collaborative search engine, with one or two features that I like a lot, although it is still not the perfect customisable search engine for me.Firstly it lets you select which websites it is searching. Rather than the whole web you can select up to 50 sites to get your results form [...]
