Technology for Charities
Browse our knowledgebase to find out how best to leverage your technology investment to help further your organisation's core mission. Click on an article below for more.
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Save Time
In the office IT environment, the use of templates can save much time and heart-ache in day-to-day tasks. In one of the standard office suites of applications such as...
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Mail Merges using Microsoft Office (or similar)
The most common Mail Merge platform is MS Office. Its Mail Merge constituents are:- a Word document, that serves as the Template...
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Most modern mobile phones have the ability to connect to the internet to varying degrees. The vast array of handsets available on the market and the rate of change of this array makes...
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According to w3schools , Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer...
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Why bother with a PDFPDFs are immutable. Once generated, they cannot be edited without special PDF editing software. Where every office will be equipped with Microsoft Office, or an...
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"How do I make a booklet that prints off pages in correct order on Publisher?"
Choose File > Page Setup. At the bottom of the "Layout" tab, there is a button...
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Open Document Format is the native way that OpenOffice stores its files. MS Word stores a letter as a .doc file, and OpenOffice Writer stores them as .odt.
For interoperability...
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You must ask yourself "what do I need?" How much do you need to be able to do yourself? Will you be printing inhouse, or outsourcing? If you are getting an outside body...
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CMS vs CRM
The tracking of memberships and contacts' details, the management of mailing lists and the creation and sending of mailings are all functions commonly associated with...
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The Cheaty Method
- Select the offending column
- Copy it
- Open Word
- Paste the column into a new document in Word
- Select the pasted data
- Choose...
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When the error occurs, try to find clues as to its nature:
- When you get the error message, does it offer to show you details of the error? If so, error details can be fed to...
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{mosimage}"I was having trouble with internet explorer so I started using mozilla firefox. It seems good except that it won't allow adobe flash player to load. I am unable to view...
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You would not think that the migration of data from one operating system to another would be difficult, but often it is a major headache, especially when the new system is very different from the...
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"I want to add a Donate Online facility on our website. What is the best payment engine to use from cost, security, ease of use etc perspectives"
There is no one best payment engine for...
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"We offer a direct debit option on our membership form, but don't expect there to be a high turnover. However our bank needs the info in the form of an emts file and the software is rather...
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Wait a whileIt is not an unreasonable idea to wait. To date, every Microsoft operating system has had a series of "service packs" over their life cycle. With each service...
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Truecrypt is released under the GPL (General Public Licence), meaning it is free to download and use without restriction. You can get it here:...
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To remove it from the list you can do the following:
Open the Microsoft Office program.
Go to Help > About [program name].
Click Disabled Items.
Select Adobe... -
"Recently my google email won't open in standard view, but it will open in basic html. Why is this and what is the difference between these two views?"
Basic view is a...
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"We are interested in starting a website from scratch... where should we start? What can you suggest?"
Well a lot would depend on your level of technical know how, and what the...
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"We have a website and are anxious to have access to it so we can update it ourselves on a regular basis. A couple of questions, is it necessary to go on a course for this? I have been told...
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Obviously, people can invite other network members to be their "friend", which is a signature of a social network and can then send internal messages to their friends, e.g. alerting them...
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However, the big difference between a virtual volunteer and the traditional volunteering model is that the virtual volunteer operates on their own time schedule, from their own choice of workplace...
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Skype is a great way to communicate for free over the internet. Free, good quality calls, real time video calling and real time chat functions make it a fantastic tool for today's budget...
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Whether or not you run into problems depends on any agreements you may have put in place when you first contracted the host/maintainer.
Ownership of websites is complex
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Everybody talks about Twitter. Some people claim to love it, others hate it. Some claim to be able to use it effectively to bring their organisation's message to market. If you...
