View source for 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*Gemnasium - Emails you when your software dependencies are out of date or have security warnings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