how i learned to stop worrying and love the tech | jane zhang & tierney smith, techsoup canada

How I learned to stop worrying

and love the tech

TechSoup Canada

Tierney Smith, Jane Zhang

About TechSoup Canada

Our Team

Our Goal: Plan a Net Tuesday Event

Event description

Event registration

Send invites

Share files

Jane vs. Tierney!

So many tools… how to decide?

1. Ask the expert

2. Ask the community

3. What do we need?

Goal: Document collaboration

Criteria:

• Real time updates

• Cross Platform compatibility

• Versioning

Event description

Event description

Google Apps Office 365

Cost Free for < 10 users

Or $5/user/month

$7/user/month (<25

users)

$9.5/user/month (>25

users)

Quick notes Simple

Good integration with

3rd party apps

Smooth integration

with MS Office

Can share easily

Favourite

thing

Real time editing Offline Editing

But there’s more…

Google Apps & Office 365 are both alternatives

for replacing your core infrastructure

• Email

• Calendars

• Documents

• Sites

• Chat

• & more

Demo: Google Apps

Favourite Thing: real time editing

Demo: Office 365

Favourite Thing: Offline editing

Goal: easy way for attendees to register online

Critieria:

• Free/paid events

• Manage attendees

• Print & export list of attendees

Event registration

Event registration

Eventbrite Guestlist

Cost Free events: free

Charities: 2% + $0.99

Other: 2.5% + $0.99

Free events: free

Charities: free

Other: 2%

Quick notes Tons of features

Nice interface

Great integration w 3rd

party apps

Simple

Nice interface

Favourite

thing

Feature rich Simple

Demo: Eventbrite

Favourite Thing: Feature rich

Demo: Guestlist

Favourite Thing: simple

Share-Pairs (5 min)

• Based on the first two challenges, what is

one thing you can do differently next week?

Or…

• What is one challenge you experience in your

work where technology could help you save

time?

Goal: invite our audience to the event

Criteria :

• Segment audience

• Make it easy to look nice

Send invites

Send invites

MailChimp Vertical

Response

Cost Free for < 2,000

subscribers

Charities & nonprofits?:

15% discount

Charities: free for <

10,000 emails/month,

15% discount for more

Quick notes Nice interface

Tons of features

Great integration with

3rd party apps

Great segmentation

Tons of features

Some integration with

3rd party apps

Favourite

thing

Integration Segmentation

Demo: MailChimp

Favourite Thing: integration

Demo: Vertical Response

Favourite Thing: segmentation

Goal: share presentation file with team; give

attendees a link to presentation

Criteria:

• Lots of storage for low cost

• Sync docs across many platforms

• Controlled sharing of folders

• Option to share publicly

Share files

Share files

Google Drive SkyDrive

Cost Free: 5GB

100GB/$60

Free: 7GB

100GB/$50

Quick notes Brings your Google

Docs & files into 1 place

Remote file sharing

Can share with non-

SkyDrive users easily

Favourite

thing

Google integration MS Office Integration

Demo: SkyDrive

Favourite Thing: Microsoft integration

Demo: Google Drive

Favourite Thing: Google integration

Bringing it all together

At the end of the day, it’s about:

•What do you need?

•What tools are you already using?

•What infrastructure do you already

have?

•What is the culture of your

organization?

Questions?