Teaching - Web - Sailing
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
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?
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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