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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So following a large campaign pledge, sometimes. Leeann is saying, “Do you have a successful procedure to teach finance and [inaudible 00:46:13] pledges count?” Why do we need it?

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. About 70% of traditional, non-gold, peer-reviewed journals are green. For example, all of Elsevier’s journals went green in 2004. Going green helps readers, of course.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. .

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . Make a five-year pledge for $1,000 a year.” And like I said, I couldn’t think of anyone that I wanted to cover this topic any more than her. . So I’m going to pipe down.

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