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HabiTech Talk2011 Habitat for Humanity

Youth Leadership Conference

Mike Resman, President Habitat for Humanity at the University of Minnesota

• About me & our chapter

• Why is this important?

• Choosing the right technology

• Using Google Apps with your group

• Guess That App!

• Interactive demo

• Questions

Agenda

About Me

About Me

Our Chapter

www.uofmhabitat.org

facebook.com/uofmhabitat

28,154website pageviews annually

1,922mailing list subscribers

794volunteer hours this year

541facebook fans

182paid members

115average meeting attendance

16executive board officers

7collegiate challenge trips

4committees

1team

Why is this important ?

4,000 houses per hour

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200

400

600

800

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Facebook users per year (in millions)

Let's solve an exponential problem with an exponential solution.

Who cares?

Choosing Technology

Who will use it? What's the cost?

Does it make life easier?

Choosing Technology

Who will use it?

What's the cost?

Does it make life easier?

Is it fun?!

Who will use it?

Does it make life easier?

Low-tech is not bad!

Technology can get expensive

• Go free first

• Try before you buy

• Ask others

Using Google Apps

• Have your own Habitat email accounts

• Work on documents & spreadsheets

• Share schedules

• Create event signup forms

• Free for non-profit orgs*

* less than 3,000 employees

• Why?

• Less (and more productive) meetings!

• Stay on the same page

• Help when and where you need it

• When?

• Update once a week

• Sometime over the weekend (by Sunday night)

Staying connected with your team

KITs (Keep In Touch)

• Why?

• Less (and more productive) meetings!

• Stay on the same page

• Help when and where you need it

• When?

• Update once a week

• Sometime over the weekend (by Sunday night)

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"Saturday, I dressed up as a zombie and went to Oktoberfest. Who knew

zombies could polka."

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"Put November builds on website."

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"Broomball tournament"

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"Committee brainstorming session."

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"Mystery Bus tour ideas"

What's in a KIT?

• Minute update

• Next actions

• Current projects

• Agenda for next 1:1

• Agenda for next board meeting

• Brainstorming / ideas / fun facts

"I am part-Greek (not Fraternity Greek but like Gyro Greek)"

"The Chinese word for movie is a combination of 'electric' and 'shadow'"

Guess That App!

Wordle

wordle.net

• Todo app

• Customize how you use it

• Email tasks

Toodledo

toodledo.com

• Take notes anywhere

• Keep everything in sync

• Easily search and organize

Evernote

evernote.com

Find a time to meet

Doodle

doodle.com

• Accept credit cards

• Free card reader

• App for iPhone, Android, iPad

• Connects to checking account

• 2.75% fee

Square

squareup.com

Mailchimp• Email newsletters

• Customized templates

• Automatic unsubscribes!

• Free for up to 2,000 subscribers

mailchimp.com

Dropbox

• Files saved to computers, mobile, and web

• Synced automatically

• Share folders with others

• 2 GB free space

dropbox.com

• Group messaging

• Conference calls

• Good for:

• Day of events

• Mass messages

• Watch out for:

• People without unlimited texts

• "Reply-all" effect

GroupMe

groupme.com

Prezi• New way to share

ideas

• Make presentations on an open canvas

• Very fun to make but...

• Very time consuming!

prezi.com

Thank You!For more info: www.uofmhabitat.org/HabiTechTalk Keep in touch:

linkedin.com/in/mjresman

mike.resman@uofmhabitat.org

@mjresman

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- John Quincy Adams