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As part of the IABC Wellington’s commitment to collaborate with other communication organisations in New Zealand we would like to highlight the PRINZ annual survey. The survey is open to all communications and PR professionals.

The survey closes on Wed 28 April, so be sure to have your say. Everyone who completes the survey will go into a draw for a case of quality New Zealand wine.

Please click here to complete the survey.

Simply follow the directions in the survey. If you are unable to complete the survey in one sitting, you have the option to save your responses and continue later.

If you have any queries about the survey, please email Glen Wright or Paul Dryden at PRINZ.

PRINZ guarantees that no personal information about you will be passed back to them or to any other third party. Furthermore, PRINZ will not report on results where the sample size is so small that people could potentially figure out who made the comments.

It’s that time of year when everyone in management gets a bit more squinty-eyed looking at their budgets. One particularly stubborn challenge can be the ballooning costs of proprietary software licences, which consume IT budgets before breakfast …

Former IABC Wellington President Simon Pleasants, reporting on IABC Wellington’s latest event, captures some of the highlights.

Chris Hall, IABC Chief Information Officer

IABC Wellington members and guests last week hosted IABC Chief Information Officer Chris Hall, over here from IABC World Head Office in San Francisco, at the Technology on a Shoestring event.

Chris suggests amongst other things:

• A full suite of office software — wordprocessing, spreadsheets, presentations etc: www.openoffice.com
• Manipulate all sorts of images with a Photoshop emulator: Gimp (for power users) or Irfanview (lighter weight)
• Create portable document format files with pdfcreator instead of Adobe Acrobat
• Stop that RAM-munching malware with Malwarebytes: http://www.anti-malware-2010.org/
• Get a multi-located team working together better with online collaboration tools … Chris mentioned Basecamp is useful, but there’s a small monthly charge.
• More happy delving in the cornucopia of geeky delight that is the open source community at Sourceforge.

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