This was our final month at Jewish Residential Services lovely sunlit conference room! Thank you once again to Paula and the JRS staff for hosting us! We will re-convene on October 7, 8:30-10 am, at ACHIEVA in the South Side.
In the meantime, remember to get registered for the 2015 TechNow Conference (Oct. 29) before the early bird pricing ends on Sept. 30! 🙂
Here are the notes and resources from this month’s meeting:
- Volunteer database software
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- Blackbaud CRM has a volunteer mgmt module.
- DonorPro has a volunteer mgmt module.
- Volgistics.
- solutions.volunteermatch.org.
- Trueimpact.com/volunteerism.
- Salesforce CRM (local implementer World Class Industrial Network) (10 free licenses through SF foundation (also Nonprofit starter pack available).
- Windows 10 upgrade?
- Better than 8.
- New Horizons just had a free Windows 10 workshop, covered a lot of server-side info for using 10 on your network.
- Has interesting applications for remote desktop.
- Speed and ease of use is better than 10 there – how it mirrors the drives – is faster.
- Word on the street is, Windows 10 is to be the last version of Windows ever, going to just be 10.1, 10.2, etc.
- Alex has been upgrading old XP machines to 10 – going well – also upgraded a win 2003 server recently to 10 with good results.
- All Win 8 licenses from TechSoup automatically get upgrades to Win 10.
- Edge browser is of interest (only comes with Win 10).
- Issues with sending to AOL email addresses
- Web forms in WP sending to AOL accounts tend to fail more often.
- What to do with older thin client boxes?
- Ceeva has a hardware donation program, Operation E-Cycle.
- Computer Reach may or may not take them (Computer Reach takes old machines, refurbs with Linux and sells/distributes globally).
- eLoop does electronic recycling – has drop off places around the city.
- Construction Junction not taking e-waste after June 30, 2015.
- Allegheny Cleanways has a link on their site for electronic recycling resources.
- Network filters
- If have sites or keywords blacklisted across the network, doesn’t matter what device you use for access, will still be blocked on that network.
- Best practice to have a central policy for what sites or keywords get blacklisted.
- We didn’t take away watercoolers when back in the day when that was how time-wasters goofed off at work, we shouldn’t necessarily block everyone because of one employee. Better to deal with the issues with that employee.
- Some organizations take the opposite approach, having a more open, lenient policy on network usage, addressing performance issues rather than cutting privileges.
- SonicWall – has an add on, a virtual machine, SonicWall Firewall Analyzer, that records network/internet activity, great if have a situation arises, records for about a month at a time, when have a performance issue come up, then can check it as evidence or documentation.
- Productivity tools
- IFTTT.com (if this, then that) – let’s you create “recipes” (aka scripts) that let apps interact that normally don’t.
- Todoist.com – also links disparate software tools, for example, if someone sends you an email with a task in it, Todoist has a plugin, where you can send the email to your to-do list in one click. Can also send tasks marked completed to a google spreadsheet. They have channels on their website where people have created “recipes” that you can use, tweak, etc. to accomplish your workflows.
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