Develop a Productive Online Volunteer Program through the Use of Appropriate Technology
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Randy Tyler is a recognized pioneer and expert in Online Volunteer program development. Since 1998, his work has been noted by numerous news sources from The New York Times to CTV's Canada AM, and shared with non-profit organizations through provincial, national and international conference presentations and published articles. Randy provides training, workshops, presentations and consultation for non-profit organizations. He is a Gold Medallist graduate of both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. For further information, please visit: http://www.RandyTyler.org
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Video - How to Use Google Cloud Connect Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to Microsoft Office. You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents with your online volunteers or co-workers. Google Cloud Connect: System requirements
Non-Profits Can Save Precious Resources (and Frustration) by Creating a Software Database Free Application Create a Software Database for a Single Computer Due to a virus, an aging system or operating system upgrade, you will be faced with reformatting your hard drive and re-installing your applications. Thus, serial numbers and other essential registration information will be required to re-install your programs. Will you spend hours trying to find all the serials numbers for your programs? You can avoid this frustrating and inefficient experience by creating (and maintaining) a software database now. AllMySoftware is a free, basic software database creation application that will allow you to easily organize and access all your software titles and serial numbers. AllMySoftware offers the following features:
Auto Scan: Scans your registry for installed and un-installed software titles
Manually Add: You can add individual software titles that were not added via a registry scan (such as portable applications that do not create registry entries)
Uninstall: Ability to quickly uninstall a software application from within the application
Backup: Flexible backup reminder
Password-Protect: Ability to password protect your software database
Views: Lists all your software titles or provides an optional tree-like database structure view
Export: Can export your software database to an Excel formatted file
Web Site Link: Hyperlink to each developer's web site
E-mail: Single click to create an e-mail message to a particular developer's support team
Search: Easy to use search features
Operating System Requirements Windows XP (according to the developer, AllMySoftware "... works with Windows Vista and Windows 7, but you need to set 'Run as administrator' option for the program shortcut's preferences." How to Use AllMySoftware
Install AllMysoftware
Launch AllMySoftware.exe
Allow ALLMySoftware to scan your hard drive (your computer's registry) for installed applications
From the resulting list, choose which software titles to include in your software database
For any software record, complete the missing field information (as per your requirements)
Add new software records (by clicking on the blank page button) for any applications not listed in your database now (that is, any of your applications that did not create registry entries, such any "portable" applications you may have installed, will have to be added manually)
Ensure your backup your software database (to external media, such as a CD, USB thumb drive, hard drive or network drive)
Once your software database has been updated, you can easily view all your records (and completed fields) at once using the "Export to MS Excel" feature.
How to Obtain a Free Registration Key Complete the short form at the URL below and your free registration key will be e-mailed to you (Bolidesoft has frozen development of ALLMySoftware and are thus offering free registration keys). http://www.bolidesoft.com/allmysoftware.htmlFree Application Creates Hardware and Software Inventory for Your Windows Network If you want to create a software database to inventory your Windows Network (as opposed to creating a database for one computer, as AllMysoftware allows), the free version of Lansweeper (version 4) provides this functionality (hardware and software scanning + 200 build-in reports, licensing reports, scriptable actions, asset tag and WOL). Client Requirements: Windows 2000+ with Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 Server Requirements: Windows 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, 7 (Windows server recommended) .net 2.0 or higher SQL server 2000 or higher or SQLexpress (free) Lansweeper (v4) Freeware Version Download Link: http://www.lansweeper.com/files/setup.exe Lansweeper PDF Documentation Download Link: http://c1330262.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/documentation.pdf Lansweeper Web Site URL: http://www.lansweeper.com For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this Online Volunteering Resource.
