Robert Weiner

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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

Robert Weiner

Dear: Dear: Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you I got your contact and choosed you by faith as a Christian,I must not hesitate to confide in you for this legal, truthful and Godly relationship. Subject: Dear: Meeting details: more details ».

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Blackbaud kills off Common Ground

Robert Weiner

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. In what was said to be an unrelated development, they also announced the departure of Gene Austin, the former CEO of Convio.

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

It will depend on local laws, your storage needs, and your relationship to past customers. As far as your relationship to customers – do you need to reference past records? Does this make sense to others? Here is a compilation of the responses: I did my graduate work in archives and records management.

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The Limits of “Free” Software

Robert Weiner

I received an email newsletter today with the following pitch for a web-based donor database (perhaps you can guess which one): The Cloud offers you constituent relationship management (CRM) software that's less expensive, easier to maintain, more accessible, more intuitive, and with greater flexibility and capacity than you've ever seen before.

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Twestival: Trying to raise $500,000 through Twitter

Robert Weiner

Will charity:water get contact information for the donors so they have the opportunity to steward them and build ongoing relationships? If it has to be done later it could cost more than the value of the gifts. Will the donors have any loyalty to charity:water? Or is this a one-time event for them? I fear it will be the latter.

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So You Want to Be a Consultant? Part II

Robert Weiner

In a relationship building, they will likely understand that certain tasks will cost a certain amount. During the dialogue for proposal and contract, there is a real opportunity to observe each other, so time spent can have an effect on the relationship. Different price structures are ok for different projects.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships. On the recent NTEN community call someone asked the panel to name 5 vendors (other than Blackbaud and Convio) to whom we’d send a CRM system RFP for a $100 million nonprofit.

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