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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at.

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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. By the time we all arrived at the event, Heidi had created a separate collaborative note-taking doc for each session, and one that served as a table of contents.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. Google searches on problems often come up with good answers on this site. Attend conferences.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

information overload may be a problem. same time, information pollution is an increasing problem for the. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. find these, we use a combination of SlideShare, Google Docs, and tagging to keep things connected [.]

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