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Digital resources: apps, sites, systems, etc
Common systems used by institution
Google Apps - office-like tools & some collaboration
Google Classroom
Trello - Kanban-style tasks & jobs board
Zoom - teleconferencing
Slack - old-school IRC chatting channels. Primary comms?
Portal - seems to be some sort of home-brew Learning Management System (LMS) (can only guess similar to Moodle, Mahara, Totara)
Salesforce - workhorse Customer relationship management (CRM)
SurveyMonkey - surveys
Tools that I've seen customers I've supported & what I expect everyday people use a lot:
Office (o365) - ol' faithful, now with more cloud
OneNote - Notetaking app, with infinite canvas (pretty rad; may adopt myself, despite no Linux support)
EverNote - Note-taking
Xero - accounting; preferred by NZ accountants
Adobe (Creative Cloud) - design... stuff. Photoshop & Illustrator in heavy rotation
Dropbox - Cloud storage (largely negated by g'drive)
Other tools that are 'nice' or alternatives worth considering to aforementioned:
Taiga.io (Scrum & Kanban) - Open Source (FLOSS) alternative to Trello
NextCloud - Self-hosted alternative to o365 & G'Apps
IFTTT - logically string systems together for automation
Zapier - something similar, I believe
Single-board Computers (SBC) - small computing devices for use on anything from education to IoT: Arduino, Micro:bit, Makey-Makey, Edison, Chibi Chip, Circuit Playground Express
OBS Studio & DaVinci Resolve - web-casting & video-editing
WordPress - odds are your website is or will be built on this. See also: Drupal
Other 'random' stuff that might come in useful; some mentioned during sessions:
WhatsApp, Discord, Gitter, Riot.im, Signal, Rocket.chat - group chats
TED - "Technology, Entertainment and Design". Inspirational talks
Maori Dictionary - expanding Kaupapa Māori vocabulary
Glassdoor - employees giving org insights
Sidekicker - Just In Time (JIT) staffing
Articulate - e-Learning (something?)
Lynda - (professional) e-Learning & Courses. Free with Library Card
Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare & other MOOG's
Core (UK), arXiv, Sci-Hub, DOAJ - Open Access Research Papers & Journals
Hnry - "virtual accountant"+
"The Market" - NZ e-retailers platform, by Warehouse
Etsy - Crafts marketplace
Shopify - e-commerse
AfterPay - another payment service
PushPay - payment service
Vend - Point-of-sale
I often use AlternativeTo.net to find suitable analogues that works across the OS's I use (windows, mac, linux, android, etc) & cost-accessible to Community people I work with:
pfSense - firewall to control my network & secure comms via VPN over public/untrusted wifi
FreeNAS - robust file storage with Backup component
BackBlaze - secure backups
Chrome & now Brave - browsers. Chrome did have good security & performance but have slipped. Brave is pretty legit atm.
uBlock Origin adblocker & Privacy Badger - to block nasty malware served via ad channels
BitWarden - secure & 0-knowledge password manager. (used LastPass prior)
Authy - manage 2-factor authentication (with backups)
GitBook - Documentation (will likely build my Learning Journal using this)
GitHub - code repository, but SO much more nowadays. Foundational platform for collaborative tech work
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Other resources (sources), but also platforms & what they are good for:
Auckland Library - because libraries are AWESOME! Loads of freebies with card.
Wikipedia - the world's Open collaborative encyclopedia
Facebook - 'the' social network, and all that encompasses
LinkedIn - Facebook for work
Twitter - internet's stream-of-conciousness
Instagram - stories-through-pictures; "picture = 1,000 words"
Reddit - "Frontpage of the Internet". The internet on steroids! All the bad and awesomeness.
YouTube - just because
Pinterest - Ideas pinboard ("visionboard")