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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

And looking forwards through data modeling allows you to make predictions about the future. They are like a compass that uses historical data as one point and forward-looking data modeling as another point to determine your direction and set your course of action. Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos.

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Should You Ever Delete Donor Records?

Tech Soup

I was recently contacted by the vendor behind a new cloud-based donor management system with this question: "We have noticed that our clients have become much more conscious about archiving/deleting old donor/prospect records because our pricing model is based on the number of records. Others Who Agree.

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

Tech Soup

We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. The Illinois Electronic Waste Recycling Act has successfully created and proven this recycling model. Several of our global partners operate similar programs. We co-founded and organized the International Computer Refurbishers Summit for many years. We have participated in a U.S.

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Timing is Everything… Proposals in the Prospect Tab of The Raiser’s Edge®

Connection Cafe

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Identification.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter.