Robert Weiner

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Lame spam of the day: Fake BBC news stories

Robert Weiner

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 in the news(paper)

Robert Weiner

I was interviewed for two articles that were published recently. The NonProfit Times ran the story The Evolution of Donor Management And Its Fundraising Future , which deals with how technology is transforming the way nonprofits interact with donors, particularly online. And the Chronicle of Philanthropy ran 'But It's Free!'

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Blackbaud kills off Common Ground

Robert Weiner

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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10 Traits of a Great Consultant

Robert Weiner

Have self-confidence and be as adept at delivering bad news as good. I hate delivering bad news, but it often goes with the job.). The Chronicle of Philanthropy published a nice list of consulting traits that I want to pass along. The traits they list are below. My comments are in parentheses. This is hard.

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Lame spam of the day: Money

Robert Weiner

Text: Click Here Shared Online News Article. Even Outlook recognizes it as phishing. Sender: yomrgoo@yahoo.com (no attempt to make it look real). To: robert@rlplumbingcompany.com (not me). Subject: FW: Money. That's the entire text. The link leads to [link].

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More nonprofit software mergers and acquisitions

Robert Weiner

Last year the big news in my industry was Blackbaud's acquisition of Convio and the merger/acquisition of Datatel and Sungard Higher Education (now called Ellucian). 2013 is off to a bang with Accel-KKR's acquisition of Sage's Nonprofit Solutions Group and iModules acquisition of Harris Connect.

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Lame spam of the day: Digg + Facebook

Robert Weiner

Let your friends see what you're reading as you discover the best news around the web. What is Facebook Social Share? Enable Facebook social sharing, and share your Digg experience with your Facebook friends. Click the Social button to turn this off. Control which emails you receive from Digg (this link leads to [link]. Cheers, the Digg crew.

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