Ask the Experts: Time-saving Tech

Time saving tech tips are timeless! And that"s why we"re sharing a second segment from the panel we brought together "RoundTable"s Holiday Q&A Giveaway" where a team of experts answered real world technology-related questions from nonprofit staff.

In this segment our experts answered the following question:

What are three of the most time-saving applications you think a small (under 20 staff) should be using?

These are the many time-saving tech tools that our experts discussed:

• Bill.com - an online bill paying service that integrates with QuickBooks and other accounting software
• Expensify - online expense management software
• Zapier - automation software to move data between applications (Zapier for nonprofits)
• Zoom - using the virtual meeting tool for making quick recordings (Zoom article on managing recordings)
• Okta - an identity management platform that saves time AND adds security (Okta for nonprofits)
• Skitch - a free app for quickly marking up image files
• Canva - a graphic creation tool (Canva for nonprofits)
• Google Workspace: Email templates
• Google Workspace: Share and collaborate with files
• Rev - speech to text tool for AI or human transcriptions
• Nimbus - a free Google Chrome add on for screenshots and recordings

These tools were discussed in a previous question on Work from Home Workflows, and are worth providing here:

• Asana - A web-based project and task management tool that is particularly helpful for organizing and visualizing team-based work (Asana for nonprofits program)
• Calendly - Scheduling software that connects directly to Outlook and GSuite calendars and eliminates the need for emailing back and forth to set appointments. Reach out to support@calendly.comfor nonprofit pricing
• Slack - a workplace messaging tool that allows users to easily create channels, or subgroups, for department, team or project-based communications. (Slack for nonprofits discount program

Thank you to our experts for joining the RoundTable team:

• Amy Karson, CEO, Brand K Partners
• George Weiner, Founder and Chief Whaler at Whole Whale
• Maureen Wallbeoff, Founder "of Maureen Wallbeoff and Meet Maureen
• Lesley Molecke, Co-Founder of Cornershop Creative

And the RoundTablers:

• Joshua Peskay, vCIO/Cybersecurity
• Destiny Bowers, Cloud/vCISO
• Kim Snyder, VP of Data Strategy