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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. Nonprofits use donor management tools to manage funders. VRM tools, on the other hand, work on the side of the individual donor. Doc Searls on VRM. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sharing of opportunities among alumni and donors could be encouraged. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Filtering candidates to assess fit is a crucial step. As applications come in, the VC helps to narrow the pool, coordinate interviews, and run background checks.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. I also created a customized bit.ly

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09

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Intranets, Yammer, and Other Web 2.0 Tools for Staff Communication

Museum 2.0

Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. An internal, shared group wiki will allow you to explore different topics (i.e. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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