Useful and Clever Online Tools - July 2011

Superhighways has put together details of some online tools that could be useful for your organisation.

Internet Buttons

Internet Buttons allows you to set up a web page of buttons which link to other websites or services. The site has been developed by UK Online Centres, We Are What We Do and the Nominet Trust with the idea of getting people up and running online as quickly as possible while they continue to learn more about how the internet works. It could therefore be very useful for Internet beginners including older people.

Internet Buttons recently won the award for Innovation at the recent Technology 4 Good awards

Event Brite

Event Brite is an online event administration tool which is free to use if you’re event is free to attend. It allows online bookings, automates confirmation and reminders emails, produces sign in sheets and reports including export to Excel.

You can customise information collected on booking and either send a link by email or embed it in your web page. Superhighways have been using this for recent training and it has made the booking process so much more efficient.

Issuu

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that allows organisations to publish magazines, newsletters and reports online.

The site is free to use and offers the following benefits:

• Increasing the potential audience for your publication
• Creating an online version of your publication that can be flicked through like a printed magazine (KVA puts its newletter online in this format)
• Allowing you to publish online even if you do not have your own website