Robert Weiner

MARCH 20, 2013

The tricky part is that it's masquerading as a news story sent to me by a friend, and those typically lack formatting and graphics. Text: Rich Webb saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Cyprus races to rework savings tax after closing banks till Thursday **. < [link] > ** BBC Daily E-mail **.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 30, 2012

Yesterday the news was that Blackbaud had laid off 50 employees it acquired when it bought Convio in May. Today the news is that Blackbaud is killing off Common Ground , one of the two donor management products (aka CRMs or Constituent Relationship Management systems) that they acquired from Convio. But not in a good way.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. But, unfortunately, most of the news was bad. Check out this transcript of an online discussion the Chronicle of Philanthropy held to discuss the report and its implications on nonprofits and other recipients of charitable donations. Photo: Peter Gerdes.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although some recent news stories have reported postive economic signs, the outlook for the nonprofit sector still looks bleak. Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news. He says: read more.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 2, 2012

Including links to real news stories is a nice touch. link] (VOA NEWS). Also, could you get back to me having visited the above website to enable us discuss in a more clarifying manner to the best of your understanding. Most of these 419 scam emails aren't worth glancing at, but the language in this one was too good to pass up.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 21, 2009

The Chronicle of Philanthropy held an online discussion on January 21, 2009 about how nonprofits can publicize their work.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

We started by listing everyone’s burning issues, then discussed as many as we could in-depth. how to set boundaries, say no, share bad news? ’ How do you fight burn-out as a technology consultant given the churn of new technology? Discussion: Ideas about telling the story about “what do I do as a consultant?&#.

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