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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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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UPDATE: This post is outdated, as these features have been altered or deprecated.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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Featured Nonprofit Girl Power 2 Cure

January 27, 2010 – 11:41 am

We love to hear and share notes about our community of great nonprofits. This one hits really moves me. Girl Power 2 Cure, Inc is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds for treatments and a cure for Rett Syndrome. We are all about harnessing the spirit of girls as volunteers, as mentors, and as [...]

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Great Nonprofit Training Coming Up

January 15, 2010 – 12:15 pm

As a side project we help run nonprofitwebinars.com. Here is a list of webinars that we encourage you to be part of as our guest: Registration is $25 but we have a couple of coupon codes for each that will make it free. Use coupon code FriendDT All Webinars are at 10am Pacific Standard Time [...]

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Helping Haiti

January 14, 2010 – 9:59 am

Want to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti? Here are two organizations that are providing immediate disaster relief in Haiti: Zanmi Lakay Zanmi Lakay is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for current and former street children in Haiti by providing educational and economic opportunities and resources to help these [...]

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Common Vision Loves Donor Tools Nonprofit Software

January 6, 2010 – 3:18 pm

Donor Tools is a dream come true for Common Vision

Michael from Common Vision

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Karma Update and Results

January 4, 2010 – 1:36 pm

Wow, things are moving fast around here! On top of all the holidays I have been a little sick so sorry for being a couple day’s late with this post. After much debate we finally picked two winners for our Karma Idea. We will officially be helping Z Space and Nanka and Bob Castulik with [...]

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End of year customer satisfaction survey

December 18, 2009 – 8:05 am

We care what you have to say! Please take a few minutes to fill out our end of year customer satisfaction survey and while you are at it tell us what features you want. We promise we will do more then listen, we will do something with what you say! Tell us what you think! Tweet

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How to Create Smart Tags

December 17, 2009 – 11:00 am

Smart Tags is a powerful feature that will change the way you look at your donor data. First off, Smart Tags are pretty different from regular Tags; the main difference is in how they’re created (although you’ll notice that Smart Tags are orange, and regular Tags are blue). To create regular Tags, you simply add [...]

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What is the difference between Tags and Smart Tags?

December 16, 2009 – 11:58 am

Tags are just like regular old fashioned tags like what you may be familiar with from blog posts and social networking – you can manually any arbitrary tag to a donor record. Smart Tags, on the other hand, are applied automatically based on conditions that you define. For example, you could have a smart tag [...]

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