Monthly Archives: February 2010

How to Integrate Social Media in Donor Prospect Research

February 26, 2010 – 3:25 pm

Did you know that you can use social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social web platforms to conduct research about donor prospects, cultivate major gifts and build stronger and long term relationships with constituents? Historically donor management software has told you about things about your donors that have already happened. While your donors’ [...]

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Technorati is a Beautiful Thing

February 26, 2010 – 6:00 am

sunkist_012, originally uploaded by shutupyourface. Technorati has asked us to put the following verification code: 684NCA49GYXJ inside a blog post to verify the ownership of the Donor Tools blog. Rather than simply post this lonesome code, we thought it might be nice to show you a picture of this cute, vulnerable kitten to brighten your [...]

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Twitter – Where Nonprofits And Donors Connect

February 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

Twitter has emerged as a social media channel for people to connect that simply can’t be ignored. As a recent Socitm report put it while doing a study on the use of social media for local government services “Failure to engage with the [social media] trend is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end [...]

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Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Integration with your Donor Database

February 15, 2010 – 6:11 pm

UPDATE: This post is outdated, as these features have been altered or deprecated. See our Version History for more information. We’re very happy today to announce our first step into social media integration with your nonprofit donor database. Now you can start connecting with donors on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and have a quick way to [...]

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Why CRM Is For Business And Donor Management Software Is For Nonprofits

February 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm

Tired of managing your donors in excel sheets and thinking of trying out something a bit more sophisticated like CRM (Customer Relationship Software)? You may want to hold on to that thought for a while and consider a few things before taking the plunge. While the donor management process in a nonprofit can be considered [...]

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A Minor Change to QuickBooks Export

February 5, 2010 – 2:06 pm

If you use Donor Tools’ Quickbooks Export feature, and you receive donations via PayPal, you’ll want to take note of this minor change. We’ve changed the way that transaction fees are reflected in the IIF file generated by Donor Tools. PayPal transactions are still recorded into Undeposited Funds, just as before. Previously, PayPal fees were [...]

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The Race For The Shorty Awards In The Nonprofits Category Is On

February 5, 2010 – 7:07 am

Attention spans getting shorter, shorter posts and content snippets in the form of micro blogging are getting more popular. If Twitter’s user base is anything to go by there is nothing short about the growth rate of this web phenomenon. To top it off everyone’s attention has now shifted to the Shorty Awards the web’s [...]

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New: Import your Whole Donor Database

February 3, 2010 – 2:54 pm

For a long time it’s been possible to import your donor list into Donor Tools. But up until now there hasn’t been an easy way to import donations as well. So many people have asked for this feature, and we’ve heard you! Introducing the new, improved Donor Tools data import feature. Now you can import your [...]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Through Facebook – A Stroke Of Genius

February 3, 2010 – 7:05 am

We often talk about the way social networking and the web can be used to the advantage of non-profit organizations and just when you think ‘we’ve seen it all now…’ something out the blue happens to knock your socks off and remind you just how powerful the web can be in critical non-profit activities such [...]

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