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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at.

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. We put our resources into creating that profile as a way to put a personal touch to those issues as 500 "real" people on his friends list. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. By the time we all arrived at the event, Heidi had created a separate collaborative note-taking doc for each session, and one that served as a table of contents. right here.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

While the wiki appears to have relied on a core leader instead of randomly selected scribes, the result is the same: documentation of a very interesting event, featuring keynote slideshows, resources cited, and discussion topics. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Know your existing content resources : - "First, start with a content audit - what does the organization. Resources for Additional Content Curation Information. already have?

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