Archive for September, 2008

Convio Releases “Common Ground” Donor Database

In June I mentioned that Convio had announced the beta release of a donor database it was calling Aikido, built on the SalesForce platform. This is not a new template for SalesForce, but a product built from the ground up. At the time, they said it would be a separate product from their online Constituent [...]

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Duplicates in your Database?

There’s been a series of discussions on the FUNDSVCS and PRSPCT-L lists about dealing with duplicates in a database, and preventing new dupes from being created. Melissa Graves from The Village for Families and Children suggested the following routine steps: A) Search for a matching record before creating any new record. Some databases will pop [...]

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2008 Data Breaches Have Surpassed All of 2007

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego, 449 data breaches have been reported as of August 22 2008, compared to 446 in all of 2007.  The breaches included consumer data as well as data from nonprofit and educational organizations.  Lost and stolen laptops (and other digital media) were the largest category reported, comprising [...]

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