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Learning Circle
Cloud & applications
With Andrew Mahar, Executive Officer, Infoxchange

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What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared
pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,
networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.
Subtitle
National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-145 (Draft) (January. 2011

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Evolution of Computing

4.
Cloud Computing Defined
Providing ICT resources, as a service, in a dynamic,
and scalable manner over a network
Fundamental characteristics

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In plain english …
Cloud computing is a technology that uses the
internet and central remote servers to maintain data
and applications. It provides on demand resources
and services over the internet with the power of
scalability and reliability.
In simple terms, when you are using cloud computing,
you don't need to install the required application on
your system. Instead, you use the application that
runs on a remote location/datacentre which we called
the 'Cloud'.
You just login, customize and start using it.

6.
The Cloud

7.
The Cloud service model

8.
What it can mean for you …
• You don't have to worry about buying
anything
• You pay for what you use
• You aren't on the hook to operate it

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Cloud benefits
Cost savings - Little to no upfront costs and pay for
what you use.
Agility - Rapid deployment, scalability up or down
Focus – ICT work can be focused on strategic
initiatives
Convenience – Anytime, anywhere, any device

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Risks in the Cloud
•Loss of connectivity
•Service levels
•Regulatory Compliance
•Backups

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Cloud and security

12.
Where
to Start?

13.
Will Cloud computing affect my
organisation?

14.
Your Cloud considerations …

15.
Your requirements …
Service coordination
• Client management
• e Referral
Business productivity
• e mail/collaboration/messaging
• Knowledge management
• Office 365 / Google apps
Business solutions
• HR / Finances / Payroll
• CRM / Donations / Volunteers

16.
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17.
Cloud Applications for CSOs
Free Online Office Suite
Google Docs
Offers a suite of Web-based productivity applications including documents,
presentation, spreadsheet and form in a simple folder within a file organizational
system. It allows for users to easily create, share and edit files in real time online, or
upload an existing file into the system. (Review)
Zoho Docs
Unites Writer, Sheet and Show and supports most file types with 1 GB of free
storage. Sporting a useful toolbar menu for editing, it also features tabs for easy
access to multiple documents, with various collaboration options available. (Review)
Office Web Apps
"Offers free online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote. Even better they are giving users 25 GB of free
online storage to store their documents on Microsoft’s SkyDrive service." (Review
1, Review 2) See also Windows Live SkyDrive.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online PDF Tools
7-PDF Web Portal
Converts a wide range of documents into PDFs. You can set a page range and
image compression for the conversion. Just choose a file to upload, click Convert to
PDF button and a PDF file is downloaded automatically for you. (Review)
PDFescape
A PDF editor with form filler and designer. You can add text, links and sticky notes,
whiteout contents, draw shapes, add form fields or fill up forms. Maximum file size 2
MB or 50 pages per file for free accounts. (Review)
PDFHammer
A PDF editor to visually rearrange, reorder and delete pages, merge PDFs, set PDF
metadata or protect PDF files with a password. Easy to use—just upload, edit and
save the files back to your computer.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online PDF Tools
ILovePDF
A nice tool to merge or split pdf files easily. You can merge up to 10 PDF files in one,
extract or split pages in a PDF, subject to a maximum file size of 8 MB.
Nitro PDF
Offers free online conversion from PDF to Word/Excel via PDF-to-Word
Converterand PDF-to-Excel Converter. Both are helpful and easy to use—choose
the file you need, click the Convert button and check your inbox for the converted
files. See also Free File Converter.
Web2PDF
Lets you convert any webpage into a PDF document and save it to your computer
with various options such as setting paper size. Simply paste the URL and click the
button, or you can drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar so you don’t have to revisit
the website. (Review) See alsoPrintWhatYouLike.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online PDF Tools
CodeBox's PDF to Flash Page Flip
Converts your pdf file into a flash file with a smooth turn-page animation effect—
upload a pdf up to 10 MB and receive a zip file containing html and swf files for
viewing in a browser or a flash player. (Review)
DigiSigner
A useful tool to digitally sign your PDF files and verify signatures, and you can
assure that the important PDF documents are not tampered with. (Review)

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Document Viewer and Sharing
Scribd
A great tool to upload and view documents of various formats in full screen, mark
them private and accessible by a specific URL, share them with millions of readers,
or embed the viewer into a website or blog.
SlideShare
Search and download Powerpoint presentations from the web, or upload and share
your slides, word or pdf documents publicly or privately. You can also view slides in
full screen, or read transcripts and outlines.
ShareText.org
Share your text with anyone in three simple steps: 1. type or paste your text, 2. click
the Post Text! button, 3. copy and share the URL link to your text. Simple and clean
user interface, easy to use, no signing in or out of accounts is ever needed.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Document Collaboration
Crocodoc
A convenient tool to collaborate on PDFs, Word and Powerpoint documents. You
can highlight, add or strike out text, and add a note to a document shared by an
URL. Adding password protection is limited to paid-for accounts.
Best Free Online Document Optimizer
PocoDoc shrinks the Office files for you while retaining the original file formats in
Word, Excel or PowerPoint. In some cases, the service claims that a compression of
up to 95% can be achieved. (Review)

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Notepad / Notebook / Notes Organizer
SimpleText.ws
A notepad for you to write, save and sync snippets of text easily and quickly in a
clean and simple interface. This service uses Google Accounts for signing in.
Zoho Notebook
Does an amazing amount of things—you can save text, image, audio and video
objects, aggregate them in one place, keep track of changes and share a whole
book, page or just an object on a page by granting read/write permissions.
Evernote
"Is an outstanding product that provides you with an excellent solution to manage
notes and snippets of information. You can create notes or cut-and-paste them with
text and images." Desktop software is for syncing notes across computers if
needed. (Review)
Springpad
Quickly and easily save and organize notes, tasks, bookmarks, clippings, media or
anything you want to remember in one place. You can also share your stuff, set
reminders and sync them with your mobile device.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Timesheet / Timer / Alarm Clock
Time Online
"Offers Time Sheet recording, reporting and invoicing with no restrictions on the
number of projects or users. Invoicing is built in so there's no need to have Excel
installed." (Review)
SlimTimer
Makes time tracking easier on your tasks or sharing them with your co-workers. You
can print reports with selected report type, date range and other options, or save
reports to your computer in csv format.
Kuku Klok
A well designed alarm clock to wake you up with the sound of Classic Clock,
Cockerel or other choices. Once loaded, it will work even if the Internet connection
goes down.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Calendar
Google Calendar
Lets you quickly schedule events and keep track of appointments. You can share
your schedule with your co-workers, family and friends, sync to your mobile phone's
built-in calendar, get notified by email or have a text message sent right to your
mobile phone.
Best Free Online Talks
TED
Talks at TED events, which usually last around 30 minutes, cover everything from
technology to art to medicine to music. Almost all of the talks are online for you to
watch at your leisure, free of charge. (Review)

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Reminder / To-Do List
Remember The Milk
Lets you organize tasks into various lists, set due dates, postpone or
repeat tasks, add notes, print lists and so on. It integrates with Gmail and
other services with add-ons.
Toodledo
Allows you to add and organize your tasks by folders, contexts, due dates
and priorities, share your tasks with coworkers, friends or family. You can
add multiple and repeated tasks, notes and tags, import and export your
data or customize the service to suit your needs.
TeuxDeux
Gives you a week overview of what needs to do in a clean user interface.
It's easy to use—type in a box to add a task, move it to another day by
drag and drop, or click to check off a done one or remove it.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Web Information
Alexa
A useful resource to find out information about a website, site owner, traffic
statistics, search analytics, clickstream, top sites, hot pages and a lot more. This
is our site info according to Alexa.
Best Free Online Website Performance Measurement
Show Slow
Helps monitor various website performance metrics by capturing the results of
YSlow, Page Speed and dynaTrace rankings over time. You can check performance
rankings for Alexa Top 100 websites, compare rankings by graphs or add your URLs
to the list for monitoring.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Social Networking
Facebook
A popular website for you to share your personal profile with friends, add them to
your list, send them messages, or join a network group organized by workplace.
Twitter
A real-time information network and a micro blogging service allows you to share
and discover what's happening now based on brief text messages sent by users via
the Twitter website, SMS or external applications.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Blog Publishing
WordPress
"My number one choice based on the features, plethora of free themes and plugins,
and the ability to use it as an alternative to create or host a web site with static
content." (Review)
Blogger
Is popular and easy to use. You can post text, photos and videos to your blog,
personalize it with many templates, add gadgets, get feedback from your readers
and more.
Posterous
Just send an email to post@posterous.com and your site is created, claim the site
from the link it sends to you, give a name and a password to your site. You can then
start adding a new post by an email, or try out more features. (Review)

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Bookmark Manager
Delicious
Allows you to keep your personal bookmarks online for access from anywhere, or
share and discover web bookmarks. You can search bookmarks by tags, transfer
bookmarks inside your browser to your Delicious account or download a copy of
bookmarks for backup.
Diigo
Gives you more powerful bookmark service with additional research tools featuring
highlights, sticking notes, comments and more. You can also drag its
bookmarklet Diigolet to your bookmark bar for direct access to the service.
Read It Later
Never miss a page you want to read later, just one click to save it to your list, or after
your are done reading a page, remove it from the list. A bookmarklet is supported.

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Best Free Online Video Sharing
YouTube
"offers 16:9 aspect ratio, high quality video playback, support for nearly every video
format, a large audience for your videos, the ability to embed videos on a blog or
website, video reply feature, customizable personal video page and the ability to
limit video access." (Review) See alsoKeepVid for download and Bender
Converter for convert and download.
Best Free Online Video Editor
JayCut
Allows you to remix or trim videos and images, add music, transitions and effects,
put on captions and subtitles, and publish to YouTube or download to your PC with
automated transcoding. (Review)

32.
Cloud Applications for CSOs
The following is a compilation of free cloud applications. Many of
these are useful online learning tools. If you know of a free cloud app
you would like to recommend, please let me know and I will add it to
the list.
Audio Google Public Data
Myrna (Aviary) (audio editor) Explorer (Create charts
SoundCloud (share and visualizations form
audio/music)
public data)
Blogging
Blogger Documents
Edublogs (for teachers and Google Docs (docs,
students) spreadsheets,
TypePad presentations, forms)
WordPress iCloud (docs,
Cartooning presentations, media and
DoInk (draw and Animate) more apps)
ToonDoo
Zoho (docs,
Charts, Diagrams, and Data
Cacoo (create diagrams) presentations,
ChartGo (create charts) spreadsheets and more)
File Sharing

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Drop.io Survey Monkey
Dropbox (file sharing and Vorbeo
convenient way to share a QR Code Generators
portfolio)
Kaywa
Graphics
Flickr (photo sharing) Snap.vu
Phoenix (Aviary) (Image and YouScan.me
photo editor) Quizzes
Photoshop Express (photo ClassMarker
editing) ProProfs Quiz Maker
Picasa Web Albums (photo Screencasts
sharing) Screen-o-Matic
Picnik (photo editing)
Screenr
Sumo Paint (image editor
and painting tool) Social Bookmarking
Polling/Survey Delicious
Diigo (research and Digg
knowledge sharing) LinkedIn (professional
Linkpad.me networking)
Social Media and Networking

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Cloud Applications for CSOs
Plaxo (networking)
Storify (create stories using
social media)
Twitter (microblogging)
Yammer (corporate
microblogging)
Video
TeacherTube
YouTube
Misc.
Online-ConVert (media
conversion - video, audio,
images…)