By editor, on July 6th, 2008%
I was using Turbo Tax Home and Business 2007 and wanted to send the final PDF to a tax consultant for some review. I wanted to create an encrypted PDF from Turbo Tax; I couldn’t find a way to do this. Then I figured that an alternative would be to “ZIP” the unencrypted PDF, . . . → Read More: Turbo Tax: Can't Create Encrypted PDF
By editor, on May 28th, 2008%
[This is the concluding post in the article Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Schedule Events.]
Using a web-based application to enhance communication and collaboration between members of a neighborhood crime watch group is something that many such groups have done with great success. The web-group gives members the feeling of a “group . . . → Read More: Neighborhood Crimebusters – Thoughts And Experiences
By editor, on May 28th, 2008%
[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Conduct Polls]
Calendar Application The Calendar is probably the least used of the group features, but it is quite handy. If you have a forthcoming neighborhood group meeting, or may be a meeting with the representatives of your city NCW . . . → Read More: Neighborhood Crimebusters – Schedule Events
By editor, on May 28th, 2008%
[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Manage Information.]
In the previous posts, we focused on communication and collaboration tools of your web-group. This post discusses a different kind of feature.
Poll Application Like all the other tools, the Poll application is also pretty simple to use. . . . → Read More: Neighborhood Crimebusters – Conduct Polls
By editor, on May 27th, 2008%
[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Collaborate.]
In the previous posts in this article, we discussed features like the group message board, sharing of files, pictures and links, and how you can use them. In this post, we look at another interesting feature that can be . . . → Read More: Neighborhood Crimebusters – Manage Information
By editor, on May 21st, 2008%
[This post is part of the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post: Communicate.]
In the previous post, we saw how to use the group message board to communicate with the other group members.
Collaboration Features While the message board application is often the most popular of the features, the group offers several . . . → Read More: Neighborhood Crimebusters – Collaborate
By editor, on May 8th, 2008%
[This post is part of a series for the article: Neighborhood Crimebusters' Web Based Community. Previous post in the series: Know Thy Neighbors.]
The rest of this article describes how you could set up a Yahoo Group as a web portal for your neighborhood. Please note you could also use other such applications like Google or MSN groups and set up something very similar. This example is based on a real neighborhood portal that was set up using Yahoo Groups. This is intended to illustrate one possible way of using such an application to facilitate communication between people in a neighborhood. Depending on the needs of your NCW and other constraints that you may have, you may need to choose another way to implement this.
[This section is detailed and is only required for those who intend to setup the group and act as moderators. Others can skip this post and click here to go to the next part of the article.]
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