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Ask Maureen: Cleaning Up a Messy Fundraising Database

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Dear Maureen, My organization’s fundraising database is a hot mess! There are no rules, and that means our database is almost useless. Signed, Sleepless in San Francisco. Here’s what I’d recommend: I’d like you to schedule a meeting with everyone who uses the database and facilitate a few fact-finding sessions.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. One interesting challenge was creating a database of bicycle rack locations throughout the islands. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is. freespace], San Francisco.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly).

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

Our San Francisco group curates a list of tech for good experiences each month. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. San Francisco, California: SFN2's 2015 Meet, Mingle, and Make Merry Holiday Happy Hour! Check out the Storify! NPTech Social.

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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

Five years ago, the city of Portland, Oregon followed the precedent set by San Francisco and Chicago when it opened its data to developers. open data nonprofit nonprofits databases' According to the Open Data Institute, open data saved Canada $3.2 Here in the U.S., local governments are using open data to improve their services.

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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

It's the beginning of Day 2 at Dreamforce , the gigantic Salesforce user conference in San Francisco. If you're interested in Salesforce stuff and you just landed from your planet, Chatter is like Facebook in your corporate CRM/database. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall).

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Post-NTC Ramblings

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you! It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference.

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