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3 Proven Ways to Wow Your Fundraisers and Keep Them Coming Back for More

NetWits

Susan G Komen Chicago made a great effort to renew the Survivor Parade associated with its Race for the Cure in 2010. So in 2010 event organizers reformed the notion, starting with a program to allow family and friends to nominate a Survivor to win an award (Hope, Strength, Faith, Courage, Love, Believe). So there you have it.

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Getting Personal Tech Right(er) in the New Year

Tech Soup

Outlook calendar chaos. Here's how to avoid being a Pavlovian dog and checking email every time there’s a reminder: Go to Outlook Options (images are from Office 2010), select Mail and uncheck. Outlook calendar chaos: Two (very) easy ideas for your Outlook calendar. Does any of this sound familiar?

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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists. I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop.

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Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day. And, because it’s in the Mozilla family, it has a plug in architecture which can add some really neat features.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications.

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Linux ready for the desktop?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. So, overall, I like it, and I’m sticking with it, with the exception of my addressbook and calendar. Getting some hardware configured can be painful.

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Spring Ahead, Fundraising Look Back

Care2

Luckily, Blackbaud issued the 2010 Online Giving Report last week. Check out The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Middle and Major Donors by Convio, Sea Change Strategies, and Edge Research for more information on how to connect with big dollar donors online. You can download your FREE copy here.