About thePresentation
Carol Stambaugh of Tech Tools, LLC presented the following session to the Non-profit Business Summit hosted by the Phoenix Business Journal. The session titled, “There’s an App for That” was co-presented with Valley Leadership and YNPN.
Did You Know
Video Played During the Phoenix Business Jornal Session Titled, “There’s An App For That”
Definition of a Geek
- An enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity <computer geek>
- A person with a state of mind and attitude who embraces technology in a way that positively impacts one’s life
Resources and Tools
Productivity
- Boomerang for Gmail — Boomerangs messages at certain times and when people haven’t replied
- Syncing Calendars across multiple devices (Google Calendars)
- Online Task Management Systems (GQueues, Things, Toodledo)
- Note-taking Apps (Evernote, Google Docs, Workflowy)
- Square for Credit Cards – No merchant fees
- Expensify — Store receipts, mileage and produce reports
Automation
- Email Canned Responses — Enable Google Labs and start using canned responses in gmail
- Online Forms — Google Docs, Wufoo Forms
- IFTTT — If This Then That (Sample recipes include: “If temperature drops below 50 degrees, tweet from my twitter account that soup is 20% off” or “If I star a message in gmail, automatically save it to evernote” or “If the pollen rises above X, then send me a text message telling me to take benadryl”
Fundraising
Fun Apps for the Phone
- Podcasts, Music Watch Movies on smartphones
- Shazam — “What is that song?”
- Games — Temple Run, Subway Surfer, Where’s My Water, Cut the Rope
- Movies — Netflix, Flixster, Redbox
- Dining — Yelp, Urban Spoon
Connecting
- Online Brand – Vizify or Gravatar
- Smartphones as 2-way radios — HeyTell or Voxer
- Facetime (for mac and iPhone) or Skype
- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Path, FourSquare
Education
- Google Hangouts — Record straight to youtube (replacing podcasts)
- Join.me — Remote Desktop Viewing
- Online Learning Sites — Kahn Academy, Codecademy, Treehouse, Lynda.com
- New LMS (Learning Management Systems) built on WordPress Websites
Favorites From Friends (not covered above)
- Using Facebook to take polls 🙂
- News and Sports Apps
- Apps that report traffic and cheap gas
- Music – Pandora
- Fitness apps that measure distance and calories
- Dropbox, Springpad
- Google Alerts — Monitor your online reputation
Trends
- Apps for Health and Mental Health
- Personal Growth and Goal Setting – Lift
- Apps to control Home Environment
- Gamification (like Codecademy and Lift — win badges)
- Cross platform integration (like IFTTT)
