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Results of CASE’s 2009 Online Giving Survey

Robert Weiner

Those of you who fundraise for educational institutions or are interested in how they're raising money online should check out the results of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's 2009 survey on online giving (PDF). Tags: TechSoup. Some highlights: read more.

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Corporate Giving Declined in 2008

Robert Weiner

The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 Tags: TechSoup. million compared to $33.19 million in 2007).

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Creating bookmarks and hyperlinks in Acrobat Pro 5

Robert Weiner

I can still use Acrobat Distiller as a printer to create PDF output, and use Acrobat Pro to edit the output. I’ve tried lots of free PDF creation software and haven’t found one that resolves these problems. Tags: Software. Open the document in Acrobat Pro. Select the pages where the URLs are found, or select All.

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GivingUSA Reports a Drop in 2008 Giving

Robert Weiner

The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. Tags: TechSoup. philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 But, unfortunately, most of the news was bad. Photo: Peter Gerdes.

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Lame spams of the day: another roundup

Robert Weiner

Sender: support@rlweiner.com (also sent from sales1@rlweiner.com and Tagged@taggedmail.com). pdf, (886.78 Text: Dear Online Account Operator, Your ACH transactions have been. temporarily disabled. View details. Best regards, Security department. Subject: RE: MITZI - Copies of Policies. Sender: SLYVIArZ@aol.com.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

John Taylor at North Carolina State University recommended PDF995 which installs as a printer driver, allowing you to print to a PDF instead of a printer: [link]. Tags: Software. Mary Kern at the University of Toledo Foundation recommended PrimoPDF and TextPad (but noteed that there is a nominal charge to get rid of the nag screen.).

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Phishing scam of the day: U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change lottery

Robert Weiner

It arrives as a nice-looking 4-page PDF attachment from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (well, nice looking if you ignore the creative spelling and the fact that the typeface and font color changes with every paragraph). Here's what it looks like: Tags: Phishing Spam. But this scam is more creative than most.

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