3rd Sector Labs

article thumbnail

6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

Don’t take our word for it, Google “WordPress Tutorial” to see for yourself). Support – Again, that big universe of users and supporters result in massive libraries of How To Guides, videos, and other support services aimed at helping you make the most of your Open Source solution.

article thumbnail

More fundraising software = more data headaches

3rd Sector Labs

Google phrases like “how much fundraising software do I need?” For months, Third Sector Labs has been polling webinar attendees at the opening of each event, asking how many different fundraising systems attendees use to execute fundraising appeals and campaigns. Here’s a quick test you can do.

Software 161
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

Not trying to scare anyone here, but a quick Google of “data hoarding” will produce articles talking about the potential legal issues of too much data, bad data, and data theft. If 5% of the addresses are bad, that’s 5,000 pieces of returned or wasted mail each mailing. Can your organization afford to waste that kind of money?

Data 100
article thumbnail

Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

You can find a lot of help via Google searches. For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. As a general rule of thumb, though, use the importers. D3: What do I do about data that won’t import? Every data migration we’ve worked on ends up with data that can’t be imported.

Data 178