Monthly Archives: July 2009

Ranking of Responsible Corporations

July 31, 2009 – 4:29 pm

I ran across The Goodness 500 list today and think that you might enjoy a look at it. Michael Mossoba is behind it and one smart guy.
In their own words…
“Goodness500 is a social enterprise that helps people assess the social responsibility of the companies with the most power to change the world.”

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Upcoming Webinar: Running IT without an IT Department

July 31, 2009 – 7:30 am

On August 12th at 10am PST our very own Ryan is running a webinar over at NonProfitWebinars.com. Running IT without an IT Department
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Utilizing technology doesn’t always require an IT department. If you’re a little adventurous and willing to learn new things, you and your staff can keep your office (or remote office) [...]

By Chris Dumas | Posted in Donor Tools News, Resources, Technology | Comments

Could You PowerPoint This? Seven PowerPoint Alternatives

July 30, 2009 – 1:47 pm

This is a quick follow-up to my post earlier this week about Fuze Meeting. I’m going to be leading a webinar in a couple of weeks (Running IT without an IT Department), I’m on a quest for the perfect combination of web meeting/webinar software and presentation software.
“PowerPoint” is like “Xerox” – sometimes it feels easier [...]

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Guest Post by Clover Frederic: Get out of the office – a lesson in building social capital.

July 29, 2009 – 8:02 am

By Clover Frederick, nonprofit marketing network, www.nmn-online.org
I’ve had the pleasure lately of meeting some great nonprofit employees who are so incredibly passionate about their causes. When talking about marketing with them, we always get to a task called “personal selling”. It is really an old-school marketing term that conjures up images of door-to-door salesmen or Tupperware [...]

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Nonprofit Video? Get Reel

July 28, 2009 – 11:46 am

A look at online video about cancer.

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Add an Online Donation Widget to your Website

July 27, 2009 – 9:30 am

Sure, you can set up a fundraising page that lives on DonorTools.com. But did you know you can also add a Donate Now button or widget to your own website? One way to do this is to go out to PayPal or Amazon Payments and use their button builders to construct your own button that you can paste on your website. But that’s a lot of work, so we’ve simplified the process for you. Now you can get the HTML code for your PayPal or Amazon Simple Pay buttons right from your Donor Tools account!

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Fuze Meeting – Free Remote Meetings, in Hi-Def

July 27, 2009 – 8:40 am

This is too good not to share. We just discovered Fuze Meeting – a “free online meeting and web conferencing software”. If your organization is decentralized, like we are, then it can be a hassle to meet with people in all your different locations – especially to share what’s on your screen. Fuze Meeting provides [...]

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Donor Tools Reviewed on Idealware

July 15, 2009 – 11:53 am

Idealware’s Eric Leland gave us a great review over on Idealware. Eric has spent some time with the system, and he really gets what we’re trying to do:
DonorTools tracks basic donor information with options for multiple salutations, addresses, and methods for contact. Donors are then “tagged” with one or more categories that you determine, creating a [...]

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Online Donations Improvements

July 8, 2009 – 11:15 am

If you’re not doing online donations yet, this will make you want to start. We’ve made it so easy to set up online donations that all you have to do is put in your email address.
First off, if you don’t have a PayPal or Amazon Payments account for your non-profit yet, go get one. It’s [...]

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What is Important in Donor Management Software?

July 7, 2009 – 6:56 pm

Often when we talk to organizations we hear different things about their software and its usage in their organization. What people say might be different depending on their role in the organization, one thing is consistent. While details matter – we could talk all day about the details of things like tags or integration with Quickbooks, the [...]

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