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16 September 2010

Interactive Timeline Brings a Non-Profit’s History to Life

Showcasing your non-profit’s history helps to establish its stability, to build trust, and to communicate the general development of the organization and its mission. But let’s face it, those “Our History” pages can be deadly dull! What if your website visitors could explore by clicking around a colorful timeline, instead? (read more)
Posted Thursday, 16 September 2010 at 9:52 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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22 April 2010

How to Backup Your Ning Network Content

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives. We won’t be told... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 8:00 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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18 January 2010

Nonprofit Newsletter: Free Tools to Create and Merge PDFs

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. The idea is to take advantage of a PDF’s ability to retain a consistent... (read more)
Posted Monday, 18 January 2010 at 2:31 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 10 comments
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25 June 2009

Portable Apps: Free Software on a (USB) Stick

If you work at times on different computers, carrying a USB loaded with free portable software can save you time and help to ensure security - there's no need to download and install the software you need or to risk your data on someone else’s hard drive. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 25 June 2009 at 3:39 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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08 May 2009

Free Data Recovery Software to Undelete Lost Files

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file? An image that can't be recaptured, or a document you've worked long hours to prepare? In an over-extended and understaffed small non-profit, rushing to do seven different things at once, deleting... (read more)
Posted Friday, 08 May 2009 at 8:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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- software,
- open source
18 November 2008

Top 4 Picks for Free Office Suite Software

If you’re running any kind of organization, a suite of office software is essential — at the very least, you need a fairly good word-processing program, a spreadsheet application, and some sort of presentation software. Feature-rich Microsoft Office has made that particular market its own for at least the past decade, but now a few strong alternative software suites are fast gaining ground... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 4:26 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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20 August 2008

Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software

This is the third part of our series on free and open-source software and the resources to help your organization make the most of what FOSS has to offer. When you need to know the meaning of a word, you flip open a dictionary. It’s a trusted authority.... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 20 August 2008 at 4:55 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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15 August 2008

Does Open-Source Software Fall Down on Usability?

This is the second part in our series taking a closer look at free and open-source software : the real costs, the barriers, and the trade-offs; the best FOSS alternatives to “brand name” software; and the resources to help you make the most of it.... (read more)
Posted Friday, 15 August 2008 at 1:34 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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- open source,
- Usability
13 August 2008

An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

As more cash-strapped non-profits, businesses, and individuals turn to free or open-source software to stretch their budgets, the open-source movement is booming. There may be no better time to talk frankly about the realities of using free or open-source... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 13 August 2008 at 3:07 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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21 July 2008

Top 12 Mind Mapping Tools for Web or Desktop

The trick to effective mind mapping is finding the right tool for the job — whether that tool is pen and paper, as Guy Lewis used to unravel his personal life, or dedicated software, as Patrick Lynch used to explain Wild Apricot’s features to his colleagues.... (read more)
Posted Monday, 21 July 2008 at 4:33 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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07 July 2008

4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site

If your organization makes PowerPoint slideshows for special events, meetings and conferences, you've probably put a lot of time and effort into creating each one. Why not get extra mileage from those PowerPoint presentations by putting them onto your website or blog for others to see? Here are four different ways to share PowerPoint files on the Web. (read more)
Posted Monday, 07 July 2008 at 2:45 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 20 comments
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- Widgets,
- Best practices,
- Web 2.0,
- open source,
- PowerPoint,
- websites,
- Microsoft
02 July 2008

How to Check Your Website on Different Browsers

Cross-browser compatibility has long been a frustration for website designers. What looks fine in one browser may be more or less “broken” in another, with sidebars shifted and elements overlapping... But does it really matter, how your website looks in different browsers, in the big picture of what your organization is trying to accomplish online? (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 02 July 2008 at 5:11 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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11 June 2008

Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds

“Welcome to the age of the crowd,” wrote Jeff Howe in The Rise of Crowdsourcing (2006). In coining the term "crowdsourcing," Howe pointed to the rise of the open-source software movement; to the success of user-created Wikipedia; and to profitable businesses like MySpace and eBay “that couldn’t exist without the contribution of users.” Nowadays, user-driven innovations and crowdsourced solutions are popping up faster than you can say "open API" and "online community"... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 11 June 2008 at 10:01 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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29 April 2008

Free PDF Tools for Mac

When we caught up with educator Dave Riddell on Twitter the other day, he was looking for a new low-cost tool to create and edit PDF files — the web's default format for sharing printable documents. Here, for the benefit of other Macintosh users, he... (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 29 April 2008 at 12:01 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 9 comments
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