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Top Cloud Services for Collaboration Looking to work with colleagues on shared project files? Google Drive, Office 365, and Zoho promise to help. We tried all three services and picked a winner. By Paul Lilly, PCWorld Jul 29, 2012 7:00 pm The Best of the Cloud The Best of the Cloud We tried 20 cloud services to find the best choices for syncing, collaboration, media streaming, and more. Top Cloud Services Sharing and Syncing Collaborating Sending Large Files Backing Up Files Sharing Photos Streaming Music Emailing documents back and forth or using an FTP server to collaborate on projects is slow and cumbersome. Collaborating in the cloud is fast and easy. Once you've tried it, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. Google Drive As you might expect, the assumption behind Google Drive is that everyone lives in a Google universe. If you and your colleagues often find yourselves knee-deep in Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word, Google Drive won't interfere with your mojo. If the reverse is true, however, Google Drive makes collaborating difficult. Upload a Word .docx document, for instance, and the file will appear as read-only in Google Drive. To make any changes, you must convert the file to Google's document format. Now you have two versions of the same file taking up twice as much space in the cloud, and leaving everyone to wonder which file they should work on. Office 365 [Click to enlarge] Microsoft's Office 365 consists of Web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Lync, and SharePoint. The package is aimed at businesses whose employees are accustomed to using Microsoft applications, and a subscription costs $6 per month, per user. The next version of Office 365, announced in July, will target consumers as well as businesses; and it will be designed to run on tablets as well as on desktop and laptop PCs. Although Microsoft has not announced pricing for the new version of Office 365, the company has

We are always looking for ways to help our radio stations operate more effectively and efficiently. We have recently come across a great tool to help DJs with a lot of their day to day efforts, Spinitron. Eva and Tom have put together a great solution. Let me tell you a bit more about what it does. Spinitron is an online playlist management solution for non-commercial educational and community radio stations. It is all web based; there is no software to install. It provides sophisticated features for playlist data entry (manual & automated) and dynamic online publishing. It solves your data storage, archiving and security issues. You can integrate station schedule, current and historical playlists, as well as other custom elements, into your web site. You can put "Now Playing" on your home page, webcast stream, mobile apps, RDS and others. With an advanced database design, Spinitron offers powerful data manipulation and analysis features. Compile Top-30 charts (or however many you like) with filtering by genre, time period, etc. Generate unlimited reports for CMJ, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange. Track the popularity of artists, disks and songs. Query how often certain disks get played. Produce reports of what DJs at the station are playing to give to record companies and promotional agencies. Stay connected with your listeners. Watch for other interesting developments as we start working together with them on a few projects. Discover Spinitron with a 30-day no-obligation free trial. Contact: Eva Papp at eva@spinitron.com or 617-233-3115 to learn more. Tags: college radio, community radio, High School Radio, Playlist Management, Spinitron

About IndieSF.com Indie SF was formed by a group of longtime radio folks that grew up in an era when there were no Big Radio formulas of restricted formats and demographic targeting. No hearing the same songs every 4 hours and that's if you were lucky. These machine-like formats (run and programmed by computers) are truly what has ruined radio the way WE remember it. That's why we pride ourselves in being something OTHER than an internet jukebox - we actually put our hands on the music every single day to make sure it flows in a manner that makes sense. NO TRAIN WRECK RADIO ALLOWED! We believe that independently owned radio can serve up a wide variety of music without placing barriers on style, genre, or otherwise. We are not corporate owned - hell - we dont make one dime doing this. We're just a group of radio folks who believe in radio done differently, the way it used to be. While that may seem like a funny statement for an online station, we are only here by the grace of our technically inclined friends at 2tbsp.com, our music programmer/format guru Sam Ferrara, Department of Funk Minister Rocque Ranaldi, and our resident IT guy Rich. As a whole, we are old school radio heads, independent media geeks and music lovers who believe radio should be about music - not just selling ads. We are a station for music lovers-we don't expect that we're going to fit everyone's taste, but give us a listen and you will likely hear something familar that you find yourself grooving to alongside something you have never heard, but grooving on nonetheless. If you listen carefully, you might notice they are next to each other for a reason. Let us know your thoughts on our programming. If you like what we're playing, or if there's something different you'd like to hear, even on our surliest day, we always appreciate your feedback. Some of you have asked how you can support us and we truly appreciate that. When you hear something you like, consider starting your purchase from th

AICPA Not-for-Profit Audit Committee Toolkit Downloads Product Image AICPA makes the individual tools from the AICPA Audit Committee Toolkit for Not-for-Profit Organizations toolkit available to not-for-profit organizations free of charge as a public service. To download individual toolkits click on the links below.

The map on this page shows not only who's winning in each of the state's 99 counties, but, using Patchwork Nation, it shows how the candidates are doing in each of Iowa's eight types of county - from the wealthy Monied Burbs to the rural agricultural Tractor Country counties. It will fill in with data as the results from the caucuses come in. Patchwork Nation at http://patchworknation.org/