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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: The Search and Selection

Bloomerang

Now that you’ve prepared for your search, it’s time to dive into the search and selection process. Consider your time and capacity as you set clear goals for the candidate search, selection, and interview process. Block enough time on your calendar to complete this process in weeks (not months). You can read part one here.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Plot/Desire: In any good story, there’s a problem that becomes part of the plot of the story. And the hero has a desire to overcome that problem. For nonprofit storytelling, conflict really refers to the challenges that need to be overcome or maybe the circumstances that perpetuate the problem.

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What’s in your data management plan?

3rd Sector Labs

Unfortunately, it’s true … and the only way to combat the problem is examine what’s in your data management plan. The problem that every nonprofit faces, however, is that all data degrades, and donor data degrades faster than most. The term “ data degradation ” refers to the worsening of data quality over time.

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

3rd Sector Labs

When was the last time you cleaned it up? Your response rate falls from 60% to 40% to under 30% over time. Your success, however, is masking a serious problem. Hoarding data is wasting time and costing money. So we studied the problem, then created custom scripts to clean and de-dupe based on reasonable best practices.

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I went to the Personal Democracy Forum conference for the first time, and I came away brimming with new ideas for my work. Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. The 50% conference rule.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

NTEN

The following is real — or should I say, sotto voce, the following events occur in real time. Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam.

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