With a wide range of integration possibilities and reporting flexibility, Sage Intacct might be the right financial management software for your organization. In this review, guest contributor Stewart Urist highlights a few of the key functionalities that have improved his organization's daily workflow and the quality of the financial information available, and flags some pitfalls to keep in mind along the way.
Notion: Task Management and Knowledge Management Combined
The web is overflowing with solutions for our personal and business productivity. As a busy professional and tech early adopter, many productivity tools have entered and exited my hard drives and operating systems over time. The good news from the pandemic (if you want to look at the silver lining) is a focus on improving personal and business project management tools. A newer solution called Notion allows for a free flow of thought in a wiki combined with a detailed framework of databases, offering a fantastic solution for the creative sector, from artists to museums or performing arts organizations, who want to archive their work while planning forward.
MindBody Online: How a Fitness Management Software Can Support the Arts
MindBody Online is a digital management solution for businesses that operate through appointment-only schedules for certain programs and divisions or as a whole. By combining useful tools into a single platform, this software allows managers to access everything they need to run their business without bouncing between multiple programs. To better understand how tools like these might benefit arts organizations, AMT Lab turned to Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s Dance and Fitness Program Manager, Kristy Boyle, where the software has been used since August of 2016. Currently, MindBody Online is being used to power PBT’s Community Division, a program offering dance and fitness classes on a drop-in basis to all ages and abilities in the surrounding community.
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Slideroom: Full of Features, High Price
Slideroom is a cloud-based applicaiton manager that allows organizations of various sizes to create, distribute, collect, and evaluate submissions. It is an intelligently designed and executed product with features suited for even the most complex institutions. However, this feature-packed suite may price out many organizations.
Coordinating decentralized teams, clients, and projects with Basecamp
Interested in improving project collaboration and communication among a decentralized team? Kristen Sorek West speaks with Shift Collaborative, a marketing, fundraising, and communications agency, on how Basecamp, a cloud-based project management tool, can improve team member efficiency and project momentum. For the full article click here.
BoardBookIt: A Board Portal Committed to Being Intuitive
Board portals provide a tool for organizations seeking to improve the engagement and efficacy of their boards. Since the publication of Computer Software and Online Technologies to Deepen and Grow Board Engagement, which looks at common governance challenges among arts nonprofits and technologies that can be used to help resolve them, BoardBookit released a new report outlining the features of its product. So just how does it work, and what makes it a potentially helpful solution for small and mid-sized arts organizations?
YouJudgeIt: A Call-for-Entry Management Platform
Calls for entry often require the materials to be evaluated by a jury, and preparing to present those materials to jurors often becomes a time-consuming task for managers. This challenge is where regular online forms fall short and where YouJudgeIt, an adjudication solution by Westaf, provides a good solution.