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′. [...]
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Upgrading to QuickBooks Pro 2008: A Warning
Posted in accounting, ict champion, icthub, quickbooks, scipmark, scipnews on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Fundraising and the Internet
Posted in icthub, nfptech, scipmark, scipnews on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fundraising is the lifeblood of the sector, but how can the internet help? Well, it can help you with: Research that supports your fundraising Where’s the money? Information to support my bids Raising money from donors Improving your fundraising skills I compiled the following list of sites as part of a review of useful sites [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft donate software to UKonline Centres
Posted in icthub, scipmark, scipnews on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News from the ICT Champion in Yorkshire and Humberside of an announcement by Microsoft of donations to UK Online Centres. It includes a full suite of software and up to 50 user licenses, free of charge. Follow the link for more details. Microsoft donations programme extended to non-charity UKonline Centres
Update on new support for voluntary sector
Posted in icthub, scipmark, scipnews on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all change at the top as a new set of national services start to roll out across the land, bringing a new range of support to the voluntary sector and the people who support it. It’s intended to herald a new way of doing things after the first few years of ChangeUp, and includes [...]
Do you Doodle?
Posted in "circuit rider" scipmark icthub, icthub, scipmark, scipnews on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do you ever have to organise meetings for lots of different people, and end up playing diary matching games by email for days on end? Some people use Outlook to find available dates, but more and more people are using the elegant Doodle. To use Doodle just go to www.doodle.ch, post up a list of [...]
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 [...]
