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Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Steve MacLaughlin at Blackbaud has written an analysis of the CASE Online Fundraising Survey. " His analysis is at [link]. No surprise -- he focuses on the high number of responses that said they "don't know" or "don't measure" and cites the maxim "If you can't measure it, then you can't manage it."
Robert Weiner
MARCH 26, 2009
Care2’s Allyson Kapin just published an analysis of Convio’s online fundraising study (which I mentioned earlier this week ). The analysis is posted at [link]. She interviewed me, so of course I think the article is good.
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Robert Weiner
JULY 10, 2012
We need better tools for reporting, analysis, and business intelligence. These are not easy questions and the analysis may be complex/complicated. But a big part of the analysis has to be “who’s the project sponsor?” We cannot interface with other desired applications.
Robert Weiner
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
I can't find any analysis of what happens if you click the links, and I'm not going to experiment. I've been getting hit with lots of spam from fortunemart@yahoo.com. These guys aren't even trying. Each spam has been one line of gibberish, plain text, no graphics, no formatting. The subjects have included: new site. your friends. Re: Longer.
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
According to the Foundation Center’s analysis of data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are approximately 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. According to the Q&A that Idealware conducted with Blackbaud , approximately 400 nonprofits are using Common Ground. That’s about.026 026 percent of U.S. nonprofits.
Robert Weiner
MARCH 17, 2013
I've redacted the message to anonymize the vendor: Dear _, I thought you might be interested in a recent analysis of low cost fundraising software, conducted jointly by independent organizations Idealware and N-TEN. A colleague forwarded the following email from a vendor and asked how I think a potential buyer should respond.
Robert Weiner
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
Have you experienced this "analysis paralysis"? How can you know what you don't know (e.g., what a new database can do when you only know what your current one does--or doesn't do, what you'll need in the future)? There are literally hundreds of choices. How do you get down to one? How have you solved it (or have you)?
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