"After people, data is your most important asset." — John Kenyon Left unattended, databases will turn into piles of mush. Therefore, develop data entry policies and procedures, and train everyone who enters data. Excel is not a database, and is one of the leading causes of dirty data. It is difficult to enforce data entry [...]
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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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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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