Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Our friends at NTEN have launched a survey to examine nonprofits' data ecosystems. NTEN describes it as follows: The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization. Your first question is probably "what is a data ecosystem?"

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Data NTEN Survey Software 100

Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The Nonprofit Times recently published an article called Is It Donor Management Software Or Business Intelligence. This lack of analytic tools often drives nonprofits to look for new donor management software. " This vision of donor management software is nothing new.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools. What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format.

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Social Media NTEN Strategy Media 100

Robert Weiner

JULY 14, 2009

As we've noted previously, The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been running a series of online discussions on how nonprofits can use social media tools. In addition to these open discussions, the Chronicle has been conducting a series of recorded interviews.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. They’ve found: Steady growth throughout the year. read more.

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Blackbaud Trend Online Giving 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. They’ve found: Steady growth throughout the year.

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Trend Online Giving Summary 100

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Beth titled her post Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations? But I think that smart nonprofits will add social media as one more tool for engagement and fundraising. and didn’t reach a conclusion either way.

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Social Media Media Fundraising Social 100

Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

We need better tools for reporting, analysis, and business intelligence. Here's how I responded: I’ve yet to see a published report that provided a convincing general argument that [insert any nonprofit name here] will raise more money by using [insert database name here]. We cannot interface with other desired applications.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The survey also covers strategies for increasing matching gifts; the effectiveness of various techniques, tools, and vendors; and stewardship ideas. It is available at [link].

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Gift Practice Survey Technique 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. In this day and age, storage is cheap and data is one of your most valuable tools. The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. Are data-storage limits the concern? No sense in removing records.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. 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.&#

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