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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ROBERT WEINER JULY 10, 2012 ROI for a donor database 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. We can’t.) Stewarding current donors. | ROBERT WEINER DECEMBER 21, 2012 Training on your new database A question was posted to a listserve for nonprofit techies looking for tips on training staff on a new database. discussed training at a high level on page 13 of this chapter from CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement. Not everyone can train. It's an art. Train them again just before going live. Train end users just before going live. | | | | | |
| ROBERT WEINER FEBRUARY 11, 2011 Controlling data entry A member of the PRSPCT-L listserve (for prospect researchers) asked "What do other institutions do to regulate or “police” data entry work, specifically when you have multiple users with authority to make updates?". It's a tough problem. Here are a few approaches (other than locking down data entry): Policies. Security. Training. Monitoring. | ROBERT WEINER JUNE 21, 2009 Advice for Consultants - Part 2 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector. Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. | ROBERT WEINER DECEMBER 7, 2011 Lame spam of the day: BBB service Re: Case # (various numbers) friend posted about them on a listserve and said that clicking the link downloads a virus. I got 7 versions of this today, at 2 different email addresses. They included an attachment called bbb_logo.jpg but no graphics in the message body. This scam has been around for a while. Here's an article about a similar batch in 2007. | ROBERT WEINER OCTOBER 4, 2009 Feed My Inbox — RSS feeds by email prefer listserves over online forums and email to IM. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks: I like to get information by email. And I don't like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed. want information to come to me -- I don't want to seek it out. | | | | | | | |
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ROBERT WEINER | FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009 Advice for Consultants - Part 3
Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. This is the third in a series of posts aimed at new consultants in the nonprofit sector. The previous posts are at Part 1 and Part 2. Make sure you have enough savings, loans, or other income to tide you over while you build your business. Everyone needs health coverage. MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009 Favorite Free Software
Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use). Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Avast! — Free anti-virus for home use: [link]. link]. MORE >> -
ROBERT WEINER | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008 Guessing the Gender of a Name
The PRSPCT-L listserve (for prospect researchers) had a discussion of resources for figuring this out and members provided the following suggestions: [link]. Ever wonder how to tell the gender of an unfamiliar first name? link]. link]. link]. MORE >>
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