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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. Many other important issues are hard to put a price tag, like. Stewarding current donors.

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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. This made me think about searching through the resources in delicious tagged with Nptech + a variety of keywords including "conferences." I got about half dozen or so pretty useful leads.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. here , using the ICT4peace tag. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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