Online Tools talk for folks with yearly budgets under $1000

Monday morning slot: $1000 SAAS

What people in the space are using

• Communication and Virtual Office
• Big Marker - Online events
• Survey Monkey - Surveys
• Mailchimp - Email marketing
• Confluence - Wiki
• ScheduleOnce - Scheduling
• Slack - Team communication (i.e. chat)
• Accompli - Mobile app that integrates google email, contacts, and calendar
• Voice Pulse - Phone management
• Ring Central - Phone management
• Virtual PBX - Phone management
• Keepass - Distributed key server
• Lastpass - Password management across devices
• Evernote - Sync documents across devices
• Gist - Team communication; integrates with some services like Basecamp
• Google Apps (Draw) - visual communication
• Soapbox Mailer - Email marketing with Salesforce

Project Management

• Basecamp - Project management
• Trello - Tasks management
• Harvest forecasting
• Redmine - Project management

Issue/Bug Tracking

• Jira - Issue tracking; powerful, but somewhat arduous to set up and maintain
• Mantis - Issue tracking

Advocacy and Relationship Management

• Salsa - CRM (Constituent Relationship Management)
• Salesforce - CRM
• Google Civic API - Finds representatives based on location
• Soapbox Engage - Advocacy tools
• Sugar CRM - CRM

HR and Accounting

• Zen Payroll - Accounting/payroll
• Less Accounting - Accounting
• Harvest - Hours tracking and billing
• Shoebox - Receipt tracking
• Freshbooks - Time tracking
• Zenbooks - Account management

Coding, Testing, and Web Stuff

• Git Hub - Version control; free bronze accounts for nonprofits
• WP Engine - Hosting for Wordpress with built-in staging engine; works with git (version control); automated upgrades
• Gemnasium - Emails you when your software dependencies are out of date or have security warnings
• Bug Crowd - Checks security vulnerabilities by having people to poke at your website
• Sauce Labs - Automated testing
• Browser stack - Cross-browser testing
• Pantheon - Managed hosting
• Jenkins - Self-hosted build server
• Phantom JS* - Automated quality assurance with headless browser. Capybara,
• Poltergeist.
• Cloud 9 - Cloud based coding
• Circle CI - Build server in the cloud “automated monkey in the cloud”; works with git (version control)

• Headless browser - In a browser, if you run Firefox without being in a window, simulating a window, then simulate input (e.g. enter text in field or click a login button) to automate testing.

Note!

Always check licensing! Nonprofits may get free accounts/service

Interest Areas:

• Tools to manage grants
• Human resources management
• More affordable advocacy platforms
• Mobile apps for managing your work
• Hour tracking
• Long-term project management
• SASS IDE
• Automated user testing
• Contract management

Daniel Owens Design Action Collective