Monthly Archives: August 2009

Can Ritual Help You Manage Your Day?

August 28, 2009 – 8:26 am

How is your day going? Or rather, where is your day going? Have you ever looked up at the clock and wondered where half the day went? Ever wondered how you let it get so hijacked? Peter Bregman of HarvardBusiness.org suggests that ritual can help us overcome the time-killing fires and distractions that always seem [...]

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Authority Rules (.com)

August 20, 2009 – 9:18 am

Though authorityrules.com is mainly geared toward online marketing, I thought it had some gems for nonprofit organizations as well. If you’ve ever studied psychology, you’ll probably be familiar with the examples given (the shock therapy experiment, etc.) But they draw some interesting conclusions in the context of web marketing. If people think you’re important, so [...]

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We like to be fashionable.

August 18, 2009 – 10:33 am

We like to look good. Our Donor Tools fundraising software is all about being simple, clean and user friendly. We spend a lot of time making our software look good, so we think we should look good too. We just  recently put an order in with Social Imprints for some cool eco-friendly sustainable clothing. We’re [...]

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Webinar Linkroll

August 14, 2009 – 9:31 am

If you missed my presentation on Running IT Without an IT Department, you can still view the slides – we’ll keep them up on slideshare. I thought it would be nice to post all the links from the presentation as well, so you wouldn’t have to hunt the slides and type in all the urls. [...]

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How a Web Based Donor Database and Fundraising Software Makes the World a Better Place

August 13, 2009 – 12:30 pm

image credit: Giorgio Montersino For a lot of people, using web-based software like Donor Tools is a no-brainer. Because Donor Tools is securely hosted on the web, you can access your donor database, manage fundraising campaigns, and keep up-to-date with donor relations from anywhere with a web connection. Why a web based donor database rocks: 1) Work [...]

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