technology Issuu If you’d like to produce a newsletter that looks more like a printed magazine, Issuu is a good site to look at. It will take your pdfs and turn them into pretty page turning publications (like this Networker) for free. Like Mailchimp you can see how many people are looking at your publication and which pages they are spending most time reading – really useful when planning future editions!
Bit.ly In a nutshell Bit.ly makes really long web addresses, short. Very handy when you’re restricted by the amount of characters you can use in a message, like on Twitter, or when you only have a little bit of space on a poster. What’s also great about Bit.ly is that it stores your short URLS and then tells you how many people clicked on each link, and where they are clicking through from (for example, facebook, twitter etc) www.bitly.com
Hootsuite Do you have several social media accounts you are trying to keep tabs on for your organisation? Using hootsuite you can tweet and post on Facebook all from one place. Hootsuite also allows you to schedule your tweets to go out in the future so even if you can’t login your account will still be active. www.hootsuite.com
Survey Monkey Want an easy way to find out what people think? Survey Monkey lets you create simple online surveys. You can then send them out to your customers or donators and find out what they think about all sorts of things! www.surveymonkey.com
AudioBoo Audioboo is a website and application that lets you record people talking and share the sound files. It’s great if you want to interview one of your service users, or get sound bites from people at your events. https://audioboo.fm
Toggl And finally, if you want to keep track of how you spend your time, and which tasks take up most of your precious minutes, have a look at toggl, a simple time tracking tool you can use on your computer, or on a tablet or smartphone. www.toggl.com
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