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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

How) will this affect Blackbaud’s plans for, or ability to build, implement, and support Enterprise CRM? Will Blackbaud continue to develop on both the Salesforce and Infinity platforms? Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud.

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2008 Online Giving Trends

Robert Weiner

Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. An average online gift of $152.12, although organizations focused on event-based and peer-to-peer online fundraising had lower average gift amounts.

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Online Alumni Communities in the Age of Social Media

Robert Weiner

I'd like to hear from anyone who is using the social networking function of Blackbaud Net Community. The topic of closed alumni communities versus social media is on the minds of a lot of university staff, so I'm posting this along with my response. There are other ways of providing most of those, of course.).