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Winter Training Session 2014

Boating is FUN... We'll show you how

District 52014

Winter Training Session

Squadron Officer’sTool Box

Boating is FUN... We'll show you how

Squadron Officer’s Tool Box

Part 1 – Review Toolslook at what is

available

Part 2 – Look at DB2000review the basicsreview some

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Squadron Officer’s Tools

• Bylaws–United States Power Squadrons®

–District 5–Individual Squadron

• USPS Operations Manual• Squadron Job Descriptions• District 5 Bridge and Flag Officers• District Councils and Conferences• USPS Website (usps.org)• District 5 Website (uspsd5.org)

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Officers’ Tools (2)

• Workshops and Training Sessions• Sail Angle (sailangle.com)• Electronic Office Products (Microsoft, Open

Office)– Word processing– Spreadsheets– Data base management

• Collaboration (other district squadrons)• OD2, ED80, ED1• HQ800• Boating Course Assistant• Information Center• DB2000

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USPS Websitehttp://www.usps.org

Site Index

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Rules Committee

• National Bylaws

• District Bylaws

• Squadron Bylaws

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Operations Manual

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Leadership Development

• Commander’s Kit

• Job Descriptions

• Leadership Info

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Information

Center

SailAngle.com

• Communication tool adopted by USPS

• Groups for specific interest• Communicate and Collaborate• Share education info with other

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SailAngle.com

District 5 Website

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HQ-800

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Boating Course Assistantversion 7.0.9

• Resident on your PC

• Class Lists• Print routines• Electronic

reporting• DB2000 interface• Upload/Download

from HQ800

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Collaboration

• Safe Boating Week Events• USPS Courses and Seminars• Special events

• Founder’s Day• Change of Watch

• Area educational events and cruises

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DB2000• National central database tool

• Updates downloaded from HQ•Current version 9.6.8

• Squadron Officers’ base of opportunity• Access Membership data

•Addresses, Phone #, Ranks and Grades• Check Certified Instructor status - IDEXP • Determine members eligible for courses• Merit Mark input for Department members• Extract fields to .csv for export, emails, labels,

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DB2000Friend

orFoe?

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PC ONLY PRODUCT

Part 1; the basics• Getting started• Who• What• Where• Why• When• The process• Navigation

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Getting Started

• Who can use DB2000?• What is it?• Where do I get it?• Why use it?• When do I use it?

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Who• Any USPS member:

• National• District• Squadron

• Requires authorized access and Passwords• 4 Password Scenarios

• Master; Updater; User; Merit Marks

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What• Relational Data Base of all USPS

members• HQ maintained• Squadron maintained• Look up data• Change data• Use data• Merit Marks

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Where

• Download from National Website• USPS.org• Site Index• Secretary; Information Technology*

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Squadron Membership

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Where

• Download from National Website• USPS.org• Site Index• Secretary; Information Technology*• Squadron/District Rosters• DB2000 Information Page**

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Where

• Download from National Website• USPS.org• Site Index• Secretary; Information Technology*• Squadron/District Rosters• DB2000 Information Page**• DB2000 latest version***

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Where

• Download from National Website• USPS.org• Site Index• Secretary; Information Technology*• Squadron/District Rosters• DB2000 Information Page**• DB2000 latest version***• Downloads****

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Why• Current Squadron or District

membership• Geographical data• Biographical data• Communication data• Educational data• User assigned data

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When• Now!• Update regularly• Email roster or MQ Client Server• DB2000 resides on your computer• Data is always readily available

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the Process• Download, install, update and place

on your desktop*

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Place the LAUNCH icon on your desktop

the Process• Download, install, update and place

on your desktop• Launch DB2000*

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Launch DB2000

the Process• Download, install, update and place

on your desktop• Launch DB2000*• Setup

• Settings• Import

• Navigate

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Navigate• Tool bar

• File• Import• Export• Reports• Forms• Settings• Help

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Navigate• Buttons

• Exit• Roster• Grade• History• Comm• Boats• User• Org• MM• Utube

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Part 2; Applications What can we do?How do we do it?

• Look up data and information• Change data in selected fields• Tabs• Imports• Exports• Merit Marks• User defined fields

Let’s go live!and visit DB2000

• Look up data and information• Change data in selected fields• Tabs• Imports• Exports• Merit Marks• User defined fields

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Help Videoon Utube

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TheF1

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Are there any Questions?

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See you in Ocean City in March Winter Training Session 2014