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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

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.’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

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So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). The first one is one that I’ve been using recently for my consulting business – SugarCRM.

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2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report

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Only 11% of online donors acquired in 2007 were still giving in 2010. All the new tips, tricks, and use of social media will not fix it. Now that everyone is raising money online the differentiators are going to be how well a nonprofit can leverage each contact point. They get worse over time.

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Free and Open Source Tool #13: Flock

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It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc. You can also use it as a blog editor, which I am going to start trying out. It’s amazingly good.

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Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM

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CiviCRM has 4 basic components: CiviContribute, CiviMail, CiviMember, and CiviEvents – which allow you to track contacts, donations, members, send out email blasts, have event registration, etc. It originally came out of the idea of making moving eBase (the CRM based on Filemaker Pro) to the web.

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What I’m learning

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn?

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August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. There are some great tips in this Wired article. Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are.

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