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Build, Buy, or Customize?

Connection Cafe

Customization simply in order to preserve business processes without a greater outcome is a recipe for disaster (as is implementing software without changes to business practices). Think Green. Access to platform SMEs and/or a community of developers who can train and “mentor” your staff? Be Aware of Precedent.

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[VIDEO] Major Donor Stewardship – Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

Bloomerang

She’s written a lot about managing teams and being a mentor. Did you hit the green button? If you can’t find a program, enlist a, some successful major gift professional to assist or mentor you. We didn’t practice, and all of that equaled disaster. Valerie: Okay. Let me see if I can share mine.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. general disaster-interested public. . set audience.

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