TOOLS WE USE
At Maricopa SBDC we use many software tools to develop and maintain our web site and to provide services to our clients. We regularly test commercial and freeware products with the objective of supporting our clients in addressing their needs at the least possible cost. Some products are kindly provided to us by their respective manufacturers to support our educational and client support efforts.
The SBDC does not provide hands-on technical support services, which are available from commercial sources. However we frequently share our knowledge particularly with the tools we use and especially if they are not otherwise supported in the market.
Yugma.com is our tool of choice for group collaboration to broadcast our PC desktop to discussion participants and to conduct live webinars. This product is functionally similar to others in the market but is available free for non commercial use to connect up to 10 participants.
Teamviewer.com is our tool of choice for remote computer access. This product is functionally similar to others in the market but is available free for non commercial use and is notable for its ease of installation. It eases tremendously our occasional need to support clients with PC issues.
Freemind by freemind.sourceforge.net is our favorite freeware mind mapping software suitable for information management, leading discussion groups, etc. Similar products are available commercially and several special-purpose freeware products exist. Freemind has proven itself with us for 0 cost and across the board flexibility under different use cases.
Notemap by Casesoft (Lexis Nexis) is our document outlining tool of choice. We gratefully acknowledge Casesoft support.
Surfulater by surfulater.com is a shareware tool we use to permanently save select content from web pages, or complete web pages, add notes, edit the content etc. to create a knowledge base of valuable information that can be used off-line and with confidence that web sites and pages previously seen do not disappear. The software can also organize diverse information within the PC and thus becomes a total information and retrieval tool. We gratefully acknowledge Surfulater support.
Gannt Project by ganttproject.biz - Freeware project scheduling and management software
Microsoft Power Point is our tool of choice to produce all our seminar presentations
Impatica for Powerpoint by Impatica.com is our tool of choice for web enabling PowerPoint presentations used in our seminars. We gratefully acknowledge Impatica support.
Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard by StrategyMap.com.au is a freeware/shareware implementation of the Strategy mapping and Balanced Scorecard Reporting technique developed by professors Kaplan and Norton
Quickbooks and Peachtree are the two primary accounting products we support. QuickBooks is the primary system because of market share and clients demand for support. We gratefully acknowledge Quickbooks support.
Homestead.com provides cost effective web site development and hosting services to clients of the national SBDC network and to Maricopa SBDC at MaricopaSBDC.homestead.com We gratefully acknowledge Homestead.com support.
Zoho.com is our primary source for free webs services supplying on-line office automation tools including: word processing, spreadsheets, wiki, blog, project management, shared databases, and other specialized tools.
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