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More fundraising software = more data headaches

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Finally, social media, mobile fundraising, and a whole array of fundraising and volunteer management apps. Further still, how involved is your social media strategy, mobile giving, and text campaigning … more systems and databases? Start with contact databases, donor management systems, and CRMs.

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Donor Data Management Dictionary

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Refers to data sets so large and complex that traditional database tools are not able to manage or process the data. Big data has become a topic of interest due to the large quantities of data (and meta data) now captured, stored, bought and sold as a result of the digital age in which we live, especially via eCommerce and social media.

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

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And from the Q&A at the end of the event … QUESTION: You talked about using social media logins, like Facebook, to help capture more information about donors and prospects. What tools do you recommend? We definitely recommend using social media logins to your website as a convenience option for your constituents.

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How to forecast fundraising risk before your walkathon stalls

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Walkers, runners, bikers, climbers, and a host of other participant types leveraged Web tools to enjoin friends, family, colleagues and others to sponsor their activity on behalf of a favorite charitable cause. Is our social media-saturated society increasingly enured to these socially-inspired overtures?

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

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It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. Some CRMs contain tools that analyze the data. A word of caution, though – CRM tools may not point out data deficiencies that expose the limitations of their database.

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