Archive for May, 2010

Prizes for Paperless Fundraising

on 29 May 2010

Have you successfully moved from paper-based direct mail fundraising to digital tools (email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and/or mobile)? Want to gloat about your successes and possibly make some (more) money as well? The Paperless Choice Challenge is rewarding successful, creative, replicable campaigns that use electronic  fundraising tools by giving away eight prizes totalling [...]

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Filed in Email Marketing,Green Tech,Mobile Communications,Online Fundraising,TechSoup 2 Comments so far

Getting RSS Feeds Via Email

on 16 May 2010

Do you want to be alerted when certain blogs or Twitter feeds are updated?  The surest way for me to be sure see new items is to have them delivered as email messages.  Some blogs offer email subscriptions, but most don’t.  However, I found a way to do this even for feeds that don’t offer [...]

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The Limits of “Free” Software

on 13 May 2010

I received an email newsletter today with the following pitch for a web-based donor database (perhaps you can guess which one): The Cloud offers you constituent relationship management (CRM) software that’s less expensive, easier to maintain, more accessible, more intuitive, and with greater flexibility and capacity than you’ve ever seen before. How much would you [...]

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Filed in Cloud Computing,Databases,Donor Databases,IT Management,Nonprofit Management One Response so far

Roundup of 2009 Online Giving Stats

on 05 May 2010

It’s the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year’s online giving results. Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall.  69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, [...]

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Thoughts on Software RFPs

on 04 May 2010

I received the following email from Keith Heller, a database consultant who works with Raiser’s Edge and Common Ground clients: We’ve been involved with responding to many RFPs over the years and I have a general inquiry that is in your bailiwick. I often see RFPs that are quite lengthy and well-considered, and looking for [...]

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Filed in Databases,Donor Databases,IT Management,Nonprofit Technology,Software 4 Comments so far