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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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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. And remember the most important form of computer insurance--regular backups, preferably stored off-site.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 One of the key points is listening.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. How do you measure the potential lost income from a photographer not buying a postcard against the online impressions his photo makes on others?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Via a now defunct site, design site license, I stumbled on Blogger and was blown away. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online. I thought of it as a magazine.

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How Use Creative Commons Licensing and Flickr To Find Powerful Visuals for Your Presentations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. And, depending on the license, you are free to use many of them. Creative Commons Licenses. See here , here , and here ).

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