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Export Data from Google Drive with Takeout

July 29, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

For a while now I have been looking for a good tool to backup very large folders from Google Drive. I have wanted to burn a DVD as backup.

I had previously come across the Data Liberation Front, and now it seems its been incorporated into the Google feature set more formally.

Check out www.google.com/takeout

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Highrise, Please add an update feature

July 16, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

In my day job at the Upper Valley Educators Institute, we use Highrise to manage contact data. One thing I have found continually frustrating with this great CRM however, is it’s woeful lack of a contact update feature.

There are several other web apps we use alongside Highrise, including Mailchimp and Wufoo. I suspect that many many companies use these big three.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have Mailchimp UPDATE the Highrise record when someone changes their contact information?

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Mailchimp, Wufoo, Highrise, Google Docs, Oh My!

March 25, 2013 By barrie@compassdesigns.net 3 Comments

In my work with technology integration at the Upper Valley Educators Institute, I am increasingly finding I am using various web applications and trying to get them to talk to each other. Many of these do have various webhooks that can connect. For example, filling out a Wufoo form can create a Highrise contact. After working to connect the various web apps we have started using though, I am becoming increasingly enamored of Zapier.
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I am an entrepreneur, web consultant, author and educator.

I have been involved in starting a K-12 School District, a Private High School, and three web tech companies. I also wrote one of the original and best selling books on Joomla.

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