Making Links 09 Part 2
CASE News November 19th, 2009As is common at conferences like this, URLs for interesting sites get get suggested thick and fast. Here’s a summary of a few interesting ones we were pointed to during the conference. We had a great time and want to thank everyone for their talks, and to everyone who attended ours. We’ll have online versions of them available shortly, in the meantime make sure to check out the following sites:
Techsoup.org – A vast ICT resource for not-for-profits including valuable templates for essential IT documentation.
www.aiia.com.au/GreenIT – A comprehensive book looking at “green computing” strategies for business and not-for-profits.
act.ly – A site that enables you to start petitions and polls on Twitter, great for online activism!
doingitbetter.net.au – A comprehensive program run by Monash University and partners investigating how to expand the capacity of ICT in the community service sector.
www.ici.qut.edu.au/projects/sustainablefoodculture.jsp – An example of where Federal government’s ARC funding is enabling social action through technology.
prezi.com – A place that allows you to make impressive looking power-point-esq presentations, and can be viewed on a web browser.
Xero.com – “Cloud accouting”. Affordable bookkeeping and financial services for small to medium sized groups, with a Web 2.0 twist.
SalesForce.com – an impressive CRM. They give free licenses to charities and not-for-profits.
OpenOffice.org – A free, professional word processor that rivals, and is compatible with, Microsoft Office.
Overall, a great two days. You can review the Twitter feed of the event here, for further info, links and insights from the day. To review our very own Twitter posts from the day, click here.

November 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
If you’re looking at “cloud computing” accounting options for grass roots organisations then also check out Admin Bandit at http://www.adminbandit.com.au. Even more affordable and more tailored than xero.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am
Can I also mention that Atlassian (http://www.atlassian.com) is offering their suite of products for $10 each if you are big enough to have your own server to install it on, they provide collaboration, project management and enterprise wiki software that may be relevant to some NFPs.
Kayako Help Desk software (http://www.kayako.com) is also offering their software to NFP’s for free.