This pages outlines the different technologies we use, how we use them, etc. In case any of you techies want to know, and so you understand all the pieces that go into making the team operate.
TECHNOLOGY | DESCRIPTION | HOW WE USE IT | LINKS TO IT | COST/FUNDING |
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Everyone knows Google. it has a lot of tools for us to use These tools include:
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| Free. | ||
Zoom | If you don’t know zoom by now, you were just born. It has become a core technology for many during Covid times. Zoom is a virtual meeting technology used for live, video meetings that can be used to share information via screensharing and recording. |
| Free. | |
Confluence | This is an online content management system built by Atlassian. It allows for you to build custom pages in a structured, related way, like a web-page, but with controllable permissions/access. |
| $5/month | |
Canva | An online design tool that allows you to make all kinds of digital assets like logos, posters, social media posts, and more. |
| $12.95/month | |
Automate.io | Automate is an online automation platform that allows us to connect different technologies that we use and automate certain task/items in one system based on the actions in another. |
| $9/month This is paid out of our technology budget. | |
Eventbrite | Eventbrite is a well-known event ticketing system that gives you the ability to register people for events or other items. It can issue tickets where needed, too. |
| We pay fees per registration/payment (variable) These come out of payments made in registration. | |
Slack | Slack is a commonly used communication platform used by thousands of businesses and other organizations. It has the ability for organizations to set up public and private channels to communicate in, with many enhanced communication features like workflows, bots, emojiis, and many plugins to integrate with other tools/technology. |
| Free. | |
Pitzone | The system NICA uses to register league riders, coaches, and to manage coach licensing. |
| Free. | |
Weebly | This is a dynamic web site building site that you can use to build custom websites without code. It can provide membership logins, a store, blogging, and much more. |
| $38/month | |
Square | Square now owns Weebly as well, but it also has a website building application as well as it’s primary use, as an online financial portal for taking payments, selling items, sending invoices, and more. It also provides a set of physical hardware for collection of payments. |
| Free. We do pay credit card transaction fees per payment made through that platform, similar to any CC processing service. | |
Mailchimp | This is an email marketing software. It integrates with our different technologies to enable us to send emails, track how well they perform, etc so I know who is getting info and who is not, templatize our weekly emails, and better organize our contacts. |
| Free. For now this is free. If our use gets bigger, we might upgrade, but it’s fairly cheap to use. | |
Beautiful.ai | Online |
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We might end up switching out this technology to save money. | |
Venmo | Online payment platform used for sending and receiving funds. |
| Free. | |
Salesforce |
| Will be free, if we get licenses for it. | ||
Strava |
| Free. | ||
OnX | An online and mobile application software used to see property ownership, roads, and more. |
| This is paid for by Coach Clark. | |
Trailforks | A website and mobile app that shows local trails and information about them. |
| Free. You can purchase a pro version if you want, but the team pays nothing for this. | |
Google Earth | A desktop and online software used to do basic mapping. |
| Free. | |
QGIS | This is a free, open source GIS product that can handle complex mapping and analysis of geographic data. |
| Free. |