Bocatics :: Tools

Google Plus knows how to keep the attention of your audience

magdalena@bocatics.org (Magdalena Glowacz) — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:58:00 +0100

You may think that the process of informing your audience via another social media tool (when you already do this through some other services) is a waste of time and Mission Impossible in one, but the reality looks much more simple, especially when the tool you are using is Google+.

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Online Converter - The perfect tool!

magdalena@iwith.org (Magdalena Glowacz) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:55:00 +0100

In the time when IT technology offers many kinds of programs and formats in which users can safe their work, people seek for a useful solution that will provide an opportunity to open every needed file.

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Adobe EchoSign helps signing your contracts easier

magdalena@bocatics.org (Magdalena Glowacz) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:35:00 +0100

Adobe EchoSign is a eSignature service, 100% web-based, which don't require any scanning software, signature pads or digital certificates.

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migranodearena.org

miranda@bocatics.org (miranda gubbels) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0100

If you have something to celebrate or a challenge that you have noticed, add it to a solidarity cause and share it with your family and friends. Together you can accumulate grains of sand and improve the lives of the people who need it most.

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Ducksboard

elizabeth@bocatics.org (Elizabeth Cherba) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:14:00 +0100

Ducksboard is a dashboard that can help you organize and track different data to help easily manage you NGO.

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YoruFukurou Application for Twitter

elizabeth@iwith.org (Elizabeth Cherba) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:09:00 +0100

YoruFukurou is an application for Twitter than allows users to manage and personalize their NGO and personal accounts a once.

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Using Pinterest as a Platform

julie@iwith.org (Julie Nyce) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:27:00 +0100

Pinterest is a tool that non profit organizations can use in order to reach more people, share their new activities, and stay updated on other organizations.

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Resources for Accessing Computers

miranda@bocatics.org (Julie Nyce & Liz Cherba) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:36:00 +0100

If your organization is looking for resources on where to get computer technology and internet connections, you may find the following helpful:

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Quepuedohaceryo: New application for facebook launched by Hazloposible Foundation

paraskevi@bocatics.org (Nikos Dalavouras) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:21:00 +0100

Fundacion hazloposible is an non-profit organization which aims to impulse the innovative interaction and participation of the society in causes related to solidarity, through the use of new technologies.

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Know your NGO better with LinkedIn

ola@iwith.org (Aleksandra Zemke) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:36:00 +0100

LinkedIn is an online social network for business professionals. It's different than other social networking sites, because it is designed for professional networking - connecting with potential partners or finding a job - rather than simply making friends, sharing photos or music.

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Causes Application for Facebook

ola@bocatics.org (Aleksandra Zemke) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:43:00 +0100

Causes is the Facebook Platform that provides the tools so that any Facebook user can rise money for a cause he supports.

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A Profile, a Fan Page or a Group? How NGOs should utilize Facebook to promote their mission?

llarson@knox.edu (Linnea Larson) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:14:00 +0100

A free and easy way to promote your NGO is through Facebook. With over 500 million active users, it is necessary that NGOs utilize the social network to promote their goals and activities. However, on Facebook are three options - a Profile, a Fan Page and a Group - and it is crucial to know which one will best serves your needs.

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Create your Facebook fan page

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:49:00 +0100

Nowadays, using social networks to spread activities of an organization is becoming increasingly common. Facebook, with more than 400 millions users worldwide is a good way to reach public.

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Benefit yourself through website-tracking

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:18:00 +0100

There exists a tools used to track the origins of the visitors landing on your page.

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Chrome 4 and Firefox 3.6: Navigation Server Competition

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:21:00 +0100

Firefox or Chrome? Mozilla or the imperial Google? Or simply good old Internet Explorer? How to choose the appropriate navigator server continues to be a mystery. There are two essential tests that give the best results for choosing the correct server.

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A new step for GOOGLE: Accelerate up your navigation speed

villarrealrauls@bocatics.org (Raul Villarreal) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:58:00 +0100

Google Public DNS (for Domain Name System) is a simple and free service by Google. Users from outside the United States will notice a drastic increase in their navigation speed. Changing your DNS is quick and easy. Here’s the scoop and the instructions on how to change your DNS provider to Google Public DNS.

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Give a Xmas design to your website!

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:41:00 +0100

Xmas is approaching, why not giving your website or your Twitter page a winter and joyfull tone?

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Create animated banners

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:00 +0100

Giving a bit of dynamism for your webpage is possible with Bannersnack. From this website, you can create animated banners with a bit of imagination and no programming.

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Browser shots : test your webpage with different browsers

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:00 +0100

Quite often, you have bad surprises while opening your website in other browsers. To avoid it, it's better to test it in different browsers and operating systems. Indeed, a page doesn't react the same and its design can change and give you unlikely results! Nowadays, there is an online and open-source tool to test your page before publishing it: Browser Shots.

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Using online tools : why does it work?

margot@bocatics.org (Margot Berg) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:44:00 +0100

Nowadays, you don't need to transfer your files from a computer to an other anymore in order to work. Using tools online allows you to have your documents wherever you wish.

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On-line text to understand Internet Published in Brasil

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +0100

A book has just been published and it is 100% on line, available in PDF format on a site for Brazilian readers with a forum to discuss issues of common interest. Entitled ‘Understand Internet – ideas, practices and communication challenges on line”, the book is written by 38 Brazilian authors, expert on diverse fields.

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Be 100% ecological with your office work

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:21:00 +0100

To avoid printing is not the only way to prevent harming the environment. A group of Dutch professionals believe that even when you put your texts in paper, you can be ecologic if you use an ink-saving font. It's called ecofont.

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Google Earth 5 gives non-profits new possibilities

tomek@bocatics.org (tomasz czech) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:20:00 +0100

Google just released the newest version of Google Earth. It gives NGOs new tools to reach out to the word to promote their causes and addressing global environmental challenges.

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Transform your Power Point presentation into a video

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:17:00 +0100

Maybe you would like to upload that presentation that you prepared so carefully to Alternative Channel, You tube, or maybe simply you don’t have the knowledge necessary to edit a video. If so, here you have a good tip.

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Now socialize as a blogger too

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:58:00 +0100

It has become natural to have an account in facebook or in any of the hundreds of social networks available in the internet. Through them we, as individuals, create societies united by certain features in common. Scoutle allows you to socialize in the network too but this time as a blogger.

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Remote access to computers over the Internet

tomek@bocatics.org (tomasz czech) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:47:00 +0100

Sometimes you need some technical support with your computer or internet use but the person that can help you is far away. Sometimes it’s necessary to give some specialist remote access to your computer. Or maybe you can give some help to somebody over the internet or you just need an access to your partner’s PC for other reasons.

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An internet browser for autistic children

giacomo@iwith.org (Giacomo Calvo) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:11:00 +0100

Get to know the tool, but also the story behind this browser especially designed for autistic children to work quietly and efficiently in front of a computer on the internet. John LeSieur, an IT programmer who lives in Las Vegas (USA), thought that surfing the Net could help in the rehabilitation of his 6-year-old autistic grandson, Zachary.

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Do you know what ........means?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:57:00 +0100

How many times have you been reading the news on our Platform or about the TIC and you come across a word or term that you do not fully understand? We are working on resolving all of your doubts. Take a look at our Glossary.

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Mouse not working? Learn the FIREFOX keyboard shortcuts

giacomo@iwith.org (Giacomo Calvo) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:57:00 +0100

¿ Ever been working online using Firefox and your mouse stops working? Never fear, you can do everything from your keyboard! This page will teach you 10 essential Firefox keyboard shortcuts...

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Publicize your Events! Here's a good way.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:07:00 +0100

We've spoken about twitter and how you can use it to create websites to publicize your cause. Now twitter offers a tool to create events and promote them among your followers. It's really easy. Read on..

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Edit your videos on the Internet: the first step towards your video blog

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:54:00 +0100

Recently, we have been telling you how useful the video blog is as a marketing tool for your NGO, on the internet. Now, we offer you the tools in order to create your own movies without having to buy a programme.

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IntInternet also helps us print books

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:58:00 +0100

Following our book contest, we discovered a tool that allows you to publish books on line. If you have a study, essay, novel, or work of any other genre and you are interested in publishing it as a book, get to know BUBOK.

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Tools for Sharing Large Files Online

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Useful information especially for those that work with Online Volunteers: A list of 17 sites that allow file sharing of up to 50 GB.

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Twitter is also useful to non-profit organizations

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

The famous tool or social network twitter surprises us by the number of networks that it has been creating: there are groups that talk about health, searching for missing people, investigation matters, all those topics that one may arrive at the asking What are you doing?. The result is such that, depending on how you use the network, it may be very useful to your organization.

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Retouch and Restore your Images with Magic.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Did it happen to you sometime that you don’t have a good file of your organization’s logo because you never had it digital? Or maybe you have the pixel design but if you enlarge the image it gets blurred? We introduce you to a tool that not by mistake it has been called “Vector Magic”.

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Social Booking: The New Tendency

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

You recognize it for the icons that appear under the new information published on the net. It is a way to keep your favorite websites and content in an organized and online manner, easy to administrate and also with the possibility to share it with the rest of the internet users.

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FireVox, Firefox´s spoken version

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100

This "Bocatic" features Firevox, an open source resource and talking extension for the Firefox web browser, which makes it accessible for people with eyesight problems. In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, FireVox´s developers highlight the fact that it provides support for MathML and CSS module.

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Social Bookmarking and Office, all in one.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

A few days ago, we informed you about Zoho, a group of applications, some of them for office, available online. Today with Think Free, we talk specifically about a tool to take advantage of Office utils online, making your job easier, but also allowing you to share documents with all the functionalities of the Social Bookmarking.

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Edit your photographs!

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

We are always keeping you up to date on tools which can improve your files on line. We have recommended various photo alternatives to you and today we present Picnik.

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The takeaway office.

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Can you imagine all Office applications you use everyday on line? You could keep up an organizer, create a slide show, work with Excel or write a Word document on line. It exists. Just keep on reading.

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Don't be flummoxed by a foreign language: Translate it with ease!

( ) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100

If you run into language problems while surfing the net you now have the tool you need for instant translation of text and even of whole web pages.

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Why Internet is slow?

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Generally we get on our nerves when our computer does not work at the speed of our thoughts or mouse movements. We do not know whose fault is it and we think about the whole company that provides our Internet services. Now, we will present you a really useful tool in order to cut short the list of "guilty ones".

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Add all the search engines you want to your Mozilla Search Bar

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100

A fast and simple way to ensure that any search engine is constantly available in the Mozilla Search Bar.

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Now YouTube allows you to edit your videos online

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100

YouTube has launched an online video editing tool, YouTube Remixer. And although it cannot replace the editing software available in the office, it's enough to make a few basic retouches. Now we can add text, graphics, sounds, and apply cuts, transitions, filters and effects, among other functions, to the videos we post on YouTube.

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Make your own Opinion Pool

erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer) — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Maybe your organization needs to submit a matter to the consideration of a specific group, or either, your aim is to propose a burning issue in order to generate your own statistics. Deliberaweb provides you with all the means for you to do it.

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Phixr: edit your images online!

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Some days ago we told you about Snipshot and you were fascinated... Well, just wait until you find out about Phixr... You will be eager to publish your pictures in your website.

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Don’t stop reading your e-mails: redirect them!

erika@bocatics.org (Erika Olavarría) — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You are on holidays and you won’t be able to check your organisation’s e-mail. What can you do? Then you remember a word that is used frequently lately: REDIRECT.

Here we explain you how to do it, we help you to understand the pros and cons and we offer you other options

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I need to reduce the size of an image right now!

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You are in a rash, you need to publish an article urgently but the image you have is too large. You do not have the time to install any image editing software, what can you do?

You can edit your pictures online; you just need to open the browser. Let us tell you a bit more about Snipshot

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Get a local phone number wherever you are located.

nicola@iwith.org (Nicola Polinelli) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100

For the time being Skype-In is only available in USA, France, UK and Hong Kong.
What is it?

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Edit your photos with GIMP

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:00:00 +0100

You have a photo and wish to crop it? You want to post it on the web, but it is too heavy? You need to change its color? GIMP is Open Source and very easy to use.

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