Understanding the PowerBase concept of Activities
- Using Activities
- Different Activity Types
- Assigning them to other PowerBase users
- Displaying Activities (upcoming, overdue) on your dashboard
Trainings
Please find below a list of many of the trainings that the Progressive Technology Project has conducted over the years. Each training contains links to materials used in the trainings.
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The training will walk through setting up personal contribution pages:
Setting Up Personal Contribution Pages
Want to raise money for your organization easily and get staff, organizers, and members involved? PowerBase makes it possible for individuals to solicit donations easily and track their progress publicly.
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Here are materials from the Partnership Project Summer Camp 2011 on the presentation about mining your data and building a culture of using data in your organization.
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A tutorial on membership in PowerBase:
Understanding Membership in PowerBase and how to use it
- adding a membership in PowerBase
- membership renewal
- extending memberships via relationships (to spouses or org staff)
- using membership reports
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These are the Presenters' outlines written by Josue and used in the PowerBase for Organizers training in Minnesota. They are saved in PDF and ms word format so that they can be used by PowerBase groups in their own training.
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File attachments: 
PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day1.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track1.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track2.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day3.doc, 
PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day1.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track1.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track2.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day3.pdf
PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day1.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track1.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track2.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day3.doc, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day1.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track1.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day2-Track2.pdf, PB-OrganizerTrainingCurriculum-Day3.pdfA tutorial on how to:
- Filtering & Sorting
- Understanding Clean Data/Paste Special
- String Parsing (or, how to make messy data CLEAN!)
- Merging Data
- Formulas
- Creating a Chart / Graph
- Pivot Table
The sample document used to conduct this training is available to download below.
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A tutorial on how to:
- Orient yourself in Excel and find the tools you need (menus, tools)
- Enter data correctly and use the right lingo (sheets, columns, records, cells)
- Format spreadsheets & data exactly how you want (data types, column headings, copy & paste, inserting/deleting rows or columns)
- Make use of simple formulas (Sum, CountIf)
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In this webinar, we covered how to:
- Work efficiently & never lose your work (customize toolbars & keyboard shortcuts)
- Create beautiful, consistent documents (use templates & styles)
- Divide & conquer your document (use sections & tables of contents)
- Collaborate on editing & finalizing documents (track changes)
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File attachments:
A tutorial on how to:
- Work efficiently & never lose your work (customize toolbars & keyboard shortcuts)
- Create beautiful, consistent documents (use templates & styles)
- Divide & conquer your document (use sections & tables of contents)
- Collaborate on editing & finalizing documents (track changes)
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A tutorial on how to create compelling presentations using (and not abusing) PowerPoint 2008 for Mac. We covered these topics:
- Changing a Presentation Look (working with master slides)
- Slide Animation
- Adding Sounds and Movies to a Slide
- Printing Presentations, Notes, and Handouts
- PowerPoint Best Practices
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