Our Team Technology

Google

Everyone knows Google. it has a lot of tools for us to use These tools include:

• Gmail

• Sheets, Documents

• Forms

• Contacts

• Photos

• Maps & My Maps

• Email

• Spreadsheets and Documents

• Forms such as our financial assistance application

• Handling contacts

• Collecting and holding photos and videos

• We map our team addresses so we can easily deliver things if needed, drop off/pick people up, etc

Free.
No cost for this at this point. At some point, we might move to g-Suite so we can have branded email addresses and additional features and more storage for photos and videos, etc.

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.

• We use it for live meetings

• We also record trainings on it.

Free.
We are blest to have approved access to an enterprise version of Zoom through Cvent, the company Coach Clark works for.

Confluence

• Our team wiki - eg this page is built on Confluence

$5/month
Paid for out of our technology budget.

Canva

• Making flyers, t-shirt designs, our sponsor prospectus, and other materials.

$12.95/month
Beform pays for this for our team.

Automate.io

• automate certain actions such as registrations automatically adding contacts to Google, adding new registrations to our team roster sheet, and more to come.

$9/month

This is paid out of our technology budget.

Eventbrite

• Team Registration

We pay fees per registration/payment (variable)

These come out of payments made in registration.

Slack

• Team communication platform

• We have some integrations with Slack

Free.
We are working on getting free licenses for an upgrade as a non-profit.

Pitzone

• Owned and run by NICA, it is used for registering for the League.

Free.
Paid for by NICA

Weebly

• We use Weebly for our website.

• We also use a small plugin to the website that syncs our google calendar to our calendar web page.

$38/month
This is our biggest cost per month and yearly. It is paid for out of our technology budget. This cost pays for us to have a store, which we hope will then pay for the site over the year (so shop away!)

Square

• We take donations

• sell gear at activities and events

• send invoices for payments required (eg team fees, etc)

Free.

We do pay credit card transaction fees per payment made through that platform, similar to any CC processing service.

Trello

• Internal tracking of tasks we need to do for the team

• Helps us make sure we know what needs to do, when, and who, etc.

This is paid for by the team through our technology budget, which is paid for out of sponsor dollars.

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.

• Integrates with our Eventbrite registration platform

• Integrates with Google Contacts

• We use it to send team emails - including special announcements, weekly updates, etc.

mailchimp.com

Free.

For now this is free. If our use gets bigger, we might upgrade, but it’s fairly cheap to use.

Beautiful.ai

• Online presentations

• We can see how many times a presentation is viewed, etc

Coach Clark pays for this personally at this point.

We might end up switching out this technology to save money.

Venmo

• We will use Venmo to collect payment for gear sold

• Payment option for sponsors, team fees, and other items

• Reimbursing people for things they paid for

Free.

Salesforce

• working to get licenses for this still.

• More details to come

Will be free, if we get licenses for it.

Strava

• individual ride tracking

• Team club/group on Strava for fun

Free.
Unless you pay for the pro version, it is free. The team pays nothing for this.

Blackboard

• We are starting to use this to build some courses/training, such as trail etiquette.

OnX

• when scouting property and areas to ride, it allows us to dynamically see who the land owner is.

This is paid for by Coach Clark.

Trailforks

• We use it to find trails appropriate for us to ride

Free.

You can purchase a pro version if you want, but the team pays nothing for this.

Google Earth

• we use Google Earth to build maps that can be uploaded to Trailforks, used for custom maps for our team, designing trails, etc

Free.

QGIS

• Coach Clark uses this for doing larger scale Geographic Information Systems (GIS) work for trails , such as designing trail systems, planning, inventory of city trails, and more.

Free.
This is open source, so we don’t pay for this.