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TechSoup New Zealand Turns One!
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July is the anniversary month for TechSoup NZ’s first birthday. The programme was launched by Community Information Strategies Australia Inc (CISA), - trading as Connecting Up Australia, TechSoup and the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations and the uptake over the past year has exceeded our expectations. It is likely that we will hit the 3 million dollar mark with donations in July and the year ahead looks positively exciting as the programme continues to grow. If your organisation was one of the early ones to register on and you have not yet placed an order, this is the time to do so. You can only place one order per year so don’t miss out on your opportunity to save a lot of money and to enhance the ICT capacity of your organisation.
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Could Your Nonprofit Benefit from TechSoup New Zealand’s most requested suite of products? – Office Professional Plus 2007
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Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 may help you and your organisation work more efficiently and effectively with a new set of powerful tools for creating, managing, analysing, and sharing information. The Microsoft Office Fluent user interface makes Office Professional Plus 2007 easier to use, and the new graphics capabilities make creating great-looking, high-impact documents a snap. Office Professional Plus 2007 — it's all about helping you deliver better results faster.
Office Professional Plus 2007 is part of the Microsoft Office system, an integrated collection of programs, servers, and services designed to work together to enable optimized information work. The Professional Plus suite includes:
- Microsoft Office Access 2007: A relational database management system that helps information workers track and report information
- Microsoft Office Communicator 2007: A unified communications client that uses options such as instant messaging (IM), voice, and video to communicate between locations or time zones
- Microsoft Office Excel 2007: A spreadsheet application with data analysis and visualization tools
- Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007: An information-gathering program using electronic forms deployed through Web browsers, email messages, or mobile devices
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2007: A time and information manager that integrates email, calendar, contacts, and tasks
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007: A presentation graphics program with capabilities for text effects, sound, and animation
- Microsoft Office Publisher 2007: A desktop publishing program that allows people with basic layout skills to create a wide variety of publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, email distribution, or viewing on the Web
- Microsoft Office Word 2007: A full-featured word-processing program
Learn more about this great suite of products at http://www.techsoup.net.nz/node/183
For a more comprehensive summation of the benefits of Office Professional Plus 2007 please go to Microsoft website
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Does Your Nonprofit need a Windows Server
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The purpose of this guide is to help you find the Windows server and licenses appropriate to your organization's needs.
Windows Server is a server operating system that enables a computer to handle network roles such as print server, domain controller, Web server, and file server and to be the platform for separately acquired server applications such as Exchange Server or SQL Server.
2008 and 2003 Versions
Microsoft offers both the 2008 and the 2003 R2 versions of Windows Server through DonorTec in order to allow organizations to select the server operating system that will meet their needs.
Generally, Windows Server 2008 is appropriate for organizations that can take advantage of its many enhancements to server management, virtualization, remote access, security and policy enforcement, and its Web and application platforms. In addition, because Windows Server 2008 shares its code base with the Windows Vista system, it is particularly effective and efficient for managing Windows Vista computers.
Windows Server 2003 is appropriate for organizations whose server computers don't meet the system requirements for the 2008 version. Windows Server 2008 requires a faster processor, more RAM, and a bigger hard drive for basic operations. Depending on the system configuration, other requirements might also be higher for Windows 2008.
Most Microsoft products and technologies are compatible with Windows Server 2008, but some are not currently supported, and others are not planned to be supported. See the Microsoft Supported Applications page for details.
To learn more about the Standard and Enterprise versions and Licensing for Windows Server please click here
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Your Questions Answered
How Do I pay for my Invoice?
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- Log in then click on “My Orders”.
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11 Take Home Tips from NTC09 on How to Increase Traffic to Your Website
Some of the staff from the two TechSoup NZ partners - Connecting Up Australia and the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations have recently returned from a trip to San Francisco where they attended the annual Non-profit Technology Conference hosted by Non profit Technology Network (NTEN) http://www.nten.org/ntc Apart from receiving some of the greatest hospitality the US had to offer, our staff were afforded the opportunity to hear great minds illuminate some very real technology issues facing the world.
We heard Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/ a futurist, talk about the power of social media and the impact it will have on how we communicate in the coming years, and Eben Moglen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen a computer programming language designer come crusader for free software, talk about the issues arising from free as opposed to proprietary software usage.
Not only did these speakers inspire great debate on such issues, there were many other motivating speakers in the breakout sessions. These speakers provided not just philosophical viewpoints and discussion topics, but excellent ideas and practices for nonprofits to employ on return to their day jobs.
Podcasts Keep Not-for-Profits Connected and Informed
Collaborative voices – conversations about the sector, is a monthly Access Radio programme hosted by a TechSoup NZ staff member – Michael Woodcock from the Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations, along with co-host Ros Rice from the NZ Council of Social Services. You can listen to their latest or past programmes on Access Radio Website (listen to the May programme - Technology, Twitter and Avatars to hear Michael’s impressions of his trip to NTEN and the TechSoup Global partners summit.
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