Jim Moore of CommUlinks posted a wonderful response to the following question on a mailing list for prospect researchers. He granted me permission to repost it here. Q: Can anyone share with me ways to ensure development officers are submitting contact reports? Or tools that you have provided … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2008
Showcase of Fundraising Innovation & Inspiration (sofii.org)
I've been watching SOFII develop over the past few months, and it's having an amazing growth spurt. It was set up to "provide charitable fundraisers everywhere with an easily accessible archive of the best fundraising creativity from around the world." The quote from George Bernard Shaw on their … [Read more...]
Stop Sending Vacation Replies to Mailing Lists
Anyone who's a member of a listserve has spent the summer deleting vacation replies from list members. Here's my approach to preventing this: Before a vacation I used to manually visit every one of the more than 30 lists I'm on and set my status to No Mail (or unsubscribe … [Read more...]
Cuil search engine isn’t
After testing www.cuil.com I can't figure out what the buzz is about. I like the categorization feature, but that's about it (and clusty does a better job). But the actual search results are disappointing and downright weird. Of course, I searched for my own name. When I don't put quotes around … [Read more...]
Online Donor Cultivation and Stewardship Survey
The Gilbert Center is conducting a survey on how nonprofits are using the Internet to cultivate and take care of their donors. A lot of research about online fundraising focuses on the tactics of the ask. We're trying to broaden the field a bit by researching the topic of online cultivation and … [Read more...]
Rate Your Donor Database
NTEN is conducting another in its series of vendor satisfaction surveys. This time they want your input on donor management systems. Their pitch: Tell us what you love -- and what frustrates, irks, and just generally annoys you -- and we'll compile the results into a handy report, then give it … [Read more...]
How Do You Use Social Media?
From the good folks at NetSquared: TechSoup's NetSquared project is in the process of developing curriculum to help nonprofits use social media effectively. But before we go about creating the curriculum, we need to know what you need to know! We put together a brief survey that should only … [Read more...]
Becoming a Consultant
The Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted an online discussion about becoming a consultant to nonprofits. The panelists were Deborah Elizabeth Finn, Jonathan Howard, and Karla A. Williams. They addressed a wide range of questions, including: How do you know when to move from being on staff to … [Read more...]
We Are The Media
NTEN is building a toolkit and instructional guides to help nonprofits understand and use social media. They describe the project as follows: The We Are Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and … [Read more...]