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.

Here's the recording for Day 2 training on:

  • Searches
  • Smart groups vs. static groups
  • Exporting contacts
  • Creating Events
  • Creating Activities
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Below is the recording for the first PowerBase Pilot Project training on:

  • Administrator Tasks: creating new user accounts, permissions and roles, creating contact records for staff in PowerBase
  • Configuring PowerBase with custom data
  • Relationships between Individuals and Organizations
  • how to handle householding
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Here are the training materials we used for our 1st PowerBase training for the pilot groups on September, 14, 2009 in San Francisco at the Mitchell Kapor Foundation.

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Dazzle your friends! Astound your coworkers! Be the coolest organizer on the block with Mail Merge!

Don’t know what mail merge is? Quite simply, it is the techie tool of your dreams. Have data in Excel that needs to get into a Word document? Need to print labels, create phone lists, or print walksheets? Mail merge is what you need.

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If your voter work made you think you needed to dig into your membership database or technology planning process, check out PTP's Community Organizing and Technology Institute on Databases and Technology Assessment and Planning:

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This session on Basic Excel will cover the following:
• Create a basic spreadsheet
• Utilize a few formulas
• Link spreadsheets
• Formatting for on and off screen

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This session on Basic Paint.NET will cover the following:

• saving a file from the web for editing
• opening file in Paint.net
• change background color
• add text
• crop and resize
• saving for the web/print – formats and resolution considerations
• where to get more help with Paint.NET

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This session on Intermediate Excel will cover the following:

• Filtering and sorting
• Address parsing
• Creating charts and graphs
• Understanding and using pivot tables

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This session on Intermediate PowerPoint will cover the following:
• Changing a Presentation Look (working with Master Slides)
• Slide Animation
• Rearranging Slides in a Presentation
• Adding Sounds and Movies to a Slide
• Custom Shows
• Printing Presentations, Notes, and Handouts
• Presenting a PowerPoint slideshow
• PowerPoint Best Practices

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