Tag Archives: nonprofits

Cutomer Service – The Path To Great Nptech

April 20, 2010 – 9:01 am

At DonorTools we’ve been blessed with really great customers and our relationship with them has lead to really great software. The way we look at it, our customer service component is just as important as developing the best nonprofit technology out there and the two are very closely intertwined. The key to nptech and developing [...]

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The iPhone Quickly Becoming The Nonprofits Best Friend

April 2, 2010 – 12:27 pm

Is the iPhone quickly becoming nonprofit and charitable organizations best friends forever? Well…a lot of subtle pointers seem to indicate that. Churches, charities and nonprofit organizations are not lagging behind high tech businesses when it comes to being mobile and making the most of the tools that let you operate on the move. We’ve often [...]

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Fundraising For Nonprofits – Analytics And All That Jazz

March 31, 2010 – 12:17 pm

Myth: A donor management system needs to have an extremely extensive data analytics software engine similar to the ones the best CRM software systems have so that data hundreds of combinations of queries can be run by the team and artistic reports with multi variable graphs can be generated. The analytics capabilities need to be [...]

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Church Administration & Financial Accountability In The Social Web Era

March 12, 2010 – 7:00 am

How many times have we seen skirmishes between church goers and church administrators over the finances of the church? Sure it’s a common area of conflict across churches and charitable organizations just as it happens in enterprise organizations where stakeholders demand to see how their funds are being utilized and get insights into the working [...]

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Using Donation Videos To Fuel Your Online Fundraising Pages

March 11, 2010 – 7:00 am

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to spruce up your online fundraising pages and add that little extra to connect with donors at the most critical stage of the donation process then these videos are perhaps what you’re looking for. Youtube recently crossed the 1 billion videos watched per day mark according to a [...]

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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 – 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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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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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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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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