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Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

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Have you heard the saying by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are?” Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

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Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media

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Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. Anthony Pisapia is the Associate Executive Director of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. You cannot choose the right channels for your cause until your target audience and goals are defined.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We’re an association, so our membership list and directory, a resource directory of vendors and providers to our sector, and lots of member services and programs are all integrated into Drupal via the Salesforce API. <a Actually Drupal/CiviCRM was going to be my first follow up post! 6 Thomas Taylor 01.16.09

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a hard time being a successful business owner with employees (I pretty much suck at it, so I hitched my wagon to Database Designs Associates from 2003 until this year.) I stumbled a fair bit along the way. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.