A Tool Extravaganza: New Tactics to Use Now

March 14, 2019 @ 1:15 PM in 252

Session Hashtag: #19NTCtools

Session Evaluation: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/19ntcsessions?c=187

Speaker Contact Details

Jason Shim

jshim@pathwayscanada.ca

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jasonshim

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshim

Session Materials & Additional Resources

Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cmNvI4kGbw2-nMiTkQg5uEnlcL_xZEqksZuzEFWKrfA/edit?usp=sharing

Collaborative Notes

Use this section to make your own contribution to the notes for this session.

Jason Shim - NTEN board chair, Pathways to Education

Security

  • -Shows if you’ve been breached
  • will tell you how you’ve been breached

Password Managers

  • Bitwarde thn (Free) and 1Password.com alternatives to LastPass
  • 1Password.com ($2 nonprofit price for each team member)

Two Factor Authentication

Tools:

BuiltWith.com - tells you website platform and google analytics, what is running behind the scenes

Vidyard - Go Video chrome extension - records and creates a video link. They use this

 to thank donors. (cool idea)

  • Enables hyper-personalization in an easy way!
  • Notification when it’s been viewed
  • Use this to engage people online to cut through the email
  • Hey, I made a video for you

LICEcap - download it for Mac or PC (no chrome extension :() animated gif

Unsplash - free photos for website design etc

  • Can do anything you want with them

Noun Project - icons for everything

  • A couple bucks to use for commercial purposes

Photopea.com - online photoshop for free

  • If you don’t have enough licenses for design products and your teams need to open ne off files; this is a great tool where you don’t need to swap devices

Remove.bg - easily removes background from images with people only

  • Just have to upload it and it outputs on its own
  • Direct download

Kapwing - online video editor (free with watermark or $6 per video, or $20 a month unlimited without)

  • Can subtitle, add audio, resize it, loop, trim, and more
  • Free version - adds a watermark

Temi.com- speech to text transcription in 5 min ($0.10 per minute)

  • AI driven approx 97% accurate (if clear audio and not too much background noise)
  • Completely automated
  • A little more accurate than Google AI transcript bot

Express Scribe - standard transcription software, download, not AI based

  • Desktop software
  • Can purchase USB foot pedals - tap to rewind

Canva.com - social media marketing items to post

Sharekit.io  - $9

  • If you’re unable to change meta-image data from a link that you’re posting, this will let you finely tune a post and change those post options
  • Will give you an in-between link

Linktr.ee - instagram shares.

  • Intermediary page with link analytics
  • “Links in bio” that enables you to have multiple links off of your page
  • Tracks engagement as well with how many clicks
  • List format; not thumbnail screenshots like some retailers

Meekan.com

  • Scheduling bot
  • Everyone needs to be synced with it
  • Great if you use Slack to collaborate with your teams
  • Works with google and MS/Outlook
  • Like a supercharged Doodle for larger coordination / scheduling

Teamwork/Asana

  • Task manager - recurring task lists
  • These are two different products
  • Asana has a free basic plan

Krisp.ai

  • AI driving audio filter that can run on mac osx that filters out background noise.
  • Can use for Zoom
  • Has to be routing through your laptop

Twilio - here at NTC

  • Can use with recruiting volunteers
  • Text based engagement based on trigger questions and journey
  • Twilio Flex ($0.50/active user hour) - contact center

Cloudflare

  • Protective layer over your website - business level protection
  • Great for content delivery network
  • Project Galileo - arts, human rights, civil society, and democracy organizations

Stayresponsive.com

  • Check how website looks across different devices

Zoom.us

  • Video conferencing
  • Free to use

Vidhub.co - $19/month

  • Internal video review to look at it together and discuss
  • Videographer can click directly on the comment

Wistia.com

  • Host video
  • Alternative to YouTube
  • Smooth streaming and buffering
  • Can see what people are engaging with
  • Can have calls to actions within different points of the video
  • Calls to action at the end
  • Enter your email to watch this video
  • Can embed directly on website

HelloSign.com

  • Docusign-like software
  • Free for 3 signatures a month

Resource Space

  • Connects with GoogleVision
  • Have to work with developer or IT person
  • Digital asset management platform
  • Will auto scan and tag
  • Free, but requires more work to implement

Microsoft and Google for Nonprofits

ManageWP.com

  • For anyone running wordpress website
  • Monthly backups for free

Mightytext.net

  • For Android Users
  • Can text from your computer (like Mac iMessage)

Hubspot Service Hub

  • If all messages are going into a single inbox, can switch over to this ticketing model
  • High visibility into what's coming in
  • Metrics according to what people are inquiring about
  • Basic versions are free

Sumo.com

  • Little banner at the top or bottom of your website to have highlighted call to actions
  • Can even use it to interrupt the entire page

EmailHippo.com

  • Can help with filtering out bad email addresses; email validation software 10 cents per email
  • Look up if an email address is going to be bouncing

Sendy.co - $59 - $10/100,000 emails

  • Amazon SES to send out the emails instead
  • Integrations are limited
  • Tracks all of the metrics

TripIt

  • Travel organizing
  • Forward itineraries to it
  • Read what’s in the email and plans an itinerary

RescueTime

  • Quantify what websites and apps you’re using

JustGetFlux - Adds blue light filter on your screen

  • Limits blue light exposure
  • Syncs up with the sunset and will give a reddish tinge on the screen
  • Better regulate sleep patterns and address chronic insomnia

Twilight

  • For android
  • App for dark reading

Inbox when ready

  • Spend less time on email and protect focus

Siempo

  • For android only, but working on iphone version
  • Takes away all colors, alerts, and replaces it with something very plain
  • Gives breathing room and prevents unconscious use

Negotiating non profit rates

  • Put in a request and don't be afraid to ask
  • I want 50% off because I want a reasonable way to access your software

Product hunt

Hacker news

  • Highly technical
  • Latest up and coming stuff

Landscape: Sprout social

From the Audience:

Wappalyzer - like BuiltWith.com but has a browser extension for most browsers that gives you an icon with the main tool and a click shows you the tools that built the site, like CMS, editor, programming language, analytics, Javascript frameworks, etc. You can also use the tool directly to evaluate a selection of sites, for example to evaluate what nonprofits are using. The site includes their count of things like most popular language, CMS, etc.

landscape - Online tool that lets you resize images automatically for all social media. Drag and drop image, then pick which social networks then pick which images (e.g. banner, post image, user pic, etc) then do resizing and such and finally download a zip file of all your images.

Google live transcribe --Translates speech to text live. Only on pixel phones at the moment but watch this space.