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Free Technologies for the Office

Free Technologies for the Office. Brandy Wilson Career Counselor Binghamton University. Why focus on free technologies?. How can we meet students? Facebook, AIM New technology can cost into the thousands Let’s not reinvent the wheel Career counseling technology is behind the times.

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Free Technologies for the Office

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  1. Free Technologies for the Office Brandy Wilson Career Counselor Binghamton University

  2. Why focus on free technologies? • How can we meet students? • Facebook, AIM • New technology can cost into the thousands • Let’s not reinvent the wheel • Career counseling technology is behind the times

  3. Handouts/Disclaimer • Please check the SUNY CDO site for a copy of this presentation • Disclaimer: While I have used many of these personally, some are based on other recommendations. Please take the time to explore and experience these tools for yourself.

  4. Outline • Free Technologies • Counseling • Connecting with Students • Marketing • Website Enhancement • Office Tools • Where to Find Them • What is your office doing?

  5. Counseling

  6. Borrowing from Others • Purdue – Career Clusters • http://www.cco.purdue.edu/StudentMajorList.shtml • Ball State – Quest – Majors & Interests • http://bsu.edu/students/careers/quest

  7. Borrowing from Others • National Resource Center • http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/index.htm • NCDA • http://www.ncda.org/ • Even if you are not a member, their resource area is free and full of information

  8. Interactive Timeline • http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

  9. Mission Statement Builder • Franklin Covey • http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_and_resources/mission_statement_builder • Step-by-step guide to creating a unique, personalized Mission Statement

  10. Career Videos • Career TV • http://www.careertv.com/about/index.asp • Career video website • Interviewing • Salary reports • Career related videos • Etc.

  11. Researching Companies • Zoom Info • http://www.zoominfo.com/#

  12. Students with Criminal Backgrounds • Hire Network • http://www.hirenetwork.org/index.html • Provides resources and assistance information to people with criminal backgrounds

  13. International Students • Foreign Labor Certification Data Center • http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx • Provides data on companies supporting H1B Visa’s • Similar to http://www.h1visajobs.com/ (requires paid subscription)

  14. ePortfolio • Epsilen • http://www.epsilen.com

  15. To-Do List Managers • Remember the Milk • http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ • Rainlender • http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php • Point Motivator • http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/PointMotivator/index.html • Awards and subtracts points based on your progress

  16. Personal Finances • Mint • http://www.mint.com/ • Wesabe • http://www.wesabe.com/

  17. Connecting with Students

  18. Instant Messaging • Pidgin • http://www.pidgin.im/ • Meebo • http://www.meebo.com/ • AOL, Yahoo, MSN • Trillian • http://www.trillian.cc/

  19. Create Your Own Chat Room • Chatmaker • http://www.chatmaker.net/ • Create your own chat room • Invite anyone by sending them a special link

  20. Marketing

  21. Calendar • Google Calendar • http://www.google.com/calendar/render’

  22. RSS Feeds • Allows you to view updates from a variety of websites from just one link • igoogle.com • Google homepage • Google reader

  23. How to Add RSS Feeds to Your Site • http://www.rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html • This site will walk you through creating and adding RSS feeds.

  24. Blogging • Blogger • https://www.blogger.com/start • Word Press • http://wordpress.org/

  25. Twitter • http://twitter.com/ • Keep in touch with groups • Maximum of 140 characters at a time

  26. Website Enhancement

  27. Website Tracker • Google Analytics • http://www.google.com/analytics/ • Find out where they “click” from, what they are clicking on, how often, etc.

  28. Broken Links • Xenu Link Sleuth • http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

  29. HTML Generator • NVU • http://www.nvu.com

  30. Tag Your Website • How to add tags to your website • The Site Wizard • http://www.thesitewizard.com/sitepromotion/meta-tags-nvu-kompozer.shtml • Revver.com • http://revver.com/video/666038/website-tips-adding-title-tags-keywords-description-tags/

  31. Tag Your Website • What tags should you use? • http://www.tagcloud-generator.com/ • http://tagcrowd.com/

  32. Social Bookmarking • Similar to your favorites folder online • Saves the address of a website for future use • Can file the website under different tags (headings, knowledge areas, etc) • 7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking • http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf

  33. Social Bookmarking • http://del.icio.us/ladare • http://digg.com/about • http://www.simpy.com/ • http://www.spurl.net/ • http://www.mixx.com/

  34. Office Tools

  35. Surveying • Survey Monkey • http://www.surveymonkey.com/

  36. Create a Poll • Doodle • http://doodle.ch/main.html • Create polls on your website, through email

  37. Conference Calls • Free Conference Call • http://www.freeconferencecall.com/index.asp • Allows you to make a conference call with up to 96 other lines • Only normal long distance charges through your phone company apply

  38. Library Catalog • Library Thing • http://www.librarything.com/

  39. Creating PDF’s • http://www.pdfonline.com/ • http://www.koolwire.com/Default.aspx • http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp • Turn a document into a PDF file • Submit/email document to site, receive the emailed PDF version a few minutes later

  40. Convert PDF’s • pdf2txt@adobe.com • pdf2html@adobe.com • Send a PDF document to this email address as an attachment and it will come back as a plain text file or in HTML format • http://pdftextonline.com/ • Convert your PDF to word and maintain the fonts and formatting

  41. Edit PDF’s • Split & merge documents • http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=32 • Edit document • http://www.pdfhammer.com/

  42. Microsoft Office • OpenOffice • http://www.openoffice.org/ • GoogleDocs • http://docs.google.com/?pli=1 • Zoho • http://zoho.com/ • 150 Free Microsoft Office Tools • http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1344.entry

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