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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About
Making sense of it all is going to be a challenge, to say the least.
IT managers will have to respond to this in a couple of ways. First, they need to focus on data storage. We're going to need more server space, and databases that can handle more of that data. IT managers will also have to figure out data de-duplication. By that, I don't mean cleaner data in your databases. Rather, we're talking about those places where data redundancies happen: the five people that have emailed the large spreadsheet to each other, or are saving it all on their desktops.
NTEN
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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How’s that donor database of yours?
In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. Mostly because, although I actually know the field pretty well, it’s at the 10,000 foot level, rather than the 50 ft level that clients really need.... 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5% of use in very large organizations. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.
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New Guide Helps Non-Profits Choose Donor Management System
If your organization is in the market for new donor management or fundraising software, Idealware has just released a new (free) research report you may want to check out: The Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems is an impressive 48-page document that compares the specific features of 33 different donor management systems...( read more )
...Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech database Donor management research software.
Wild Apricot Blog
- Monday, May 4, 2009
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Inbox N'at
Flickr Photo: Dunechaser I'm shovelling my way out of both snow and email this week.
The snow part has been humorous ( because Portlanders don't do snow ). The email in-box project has also been surprisingly fun: I found quite a few tidbits -- or this n'at , as Pittsurghers would say -- worth sharing.
Here are some of the things I came across that you might also enjoy:
Batgirl fights for equal pay . This is a great example of nonprofit video done right. Congrats to the Center for American Progress .
The Security Quiz . I'll admit, I couldn't answer a few of these.
NTEN
- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Salesforce crossroads: A decision reached
Back in February, I did a little “thinking out loud” about where C3 was going with Salesforce .
We started using Salesforce as our main database in 2006, following the nonprofit best practices of the time.... I’m sure I’ll have many a blog post on the process as we go.
Overall, though, I think the rewards of Common Ground will be much greater than the concessions I’ll have to make.
...Tags: Nonprofit Salesforce Common Ground Convio database nptech.
Judi Sohn
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Don’t you hate it when your database goes poof?
Not a fun Friday.
At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install.
It looked like this in Safari:
That tiny print is the copy that’s on a default WordPress installation, but with the Thesis theme I use applied to it…kind of.... Also working in my favor was the WordPress Database Backup plugin that I’ve had installed for years. It emails me a backup of my database every night. We used iChat for screen sharing, which worked really well.
Judi Sohn
- Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Dave Manelski Featured on Vertical Response Blog
Our very own Dave Manelski was featured on the Vertical Response blog this week, with a short how-to about How to Mark Bounced Records as Bad Addresses on Vertical Response email lists run out of Salesforce.com.
Yep, a bit of a wonky topic, but super-important for keeping your database of email addresses up-to-date as email addresses go stale and start bouncing.
ONE/Blog
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun
For us, it’s generally much more removed.
However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Why? It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system....
There is some suspicion that there may be anti-trust challenges because of this, but if it goes through, it raises some huge questions about what happens to MySQL because of this.
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Results from Campbell Rinker Donor & Member Database Survey
Marketing research firm Campbell Rinker has published the results of its latest survey of donor and member management software. Of the 841 respondents, 27% would NOT recommend their current systems to a comparable organization, 26% were unsure, and 47% would give a positive recommendation.
According to the executive summary, the following systems "were recommended by a majority of their customers," which I assume means they were in use by the 47% that like their current systems:
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...Tags: TechSoup.
Robert Weiner
- Monday, January 5, 2009
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Salesforce crossroads: A decision reached
Back in February, I did a little “thinking out loud” about where C3 was going with Salesforce .
We started using Salesforce as our main database in 2006, following the nonprofit best practices of the time.... I’m sure I’ll have many a blog post on the process as we go.
Overall, though, I think the rewards of Common Ground will be much greater than the concessions I’ll have to make.
...Tags: Geek Posts Common Ground Convio database nptech Salesforce.
Judi Sohn
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Refugee Database Specs
We are publishing a spec to facilitate data interchange among
sites and that would allow the creation of a central database of most
refugee databases on the web. We are also connecting database owners
with volunteer programmers that can help implementing the spec.../katrina/
If
you run a refugee database, please publish your data via RSS in this
standard. If you need volunteer programmers to help with implementation
IM me at dgeilhufe AT yahoo com.
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