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
- 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.
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.
Gannt
Project - 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.
Notemap
by Casesoft (Lexis Nexis) is our document outlining tool
of choice. We gratefully acknowledge Casesoft support.
Surfulater
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.
