Hi Deborah, Just a note to let you know your message re pro bono services was tagged as spam by the Outlook Junk Mail Filter (see attached screen dump of my...
Dear Deborah, Thank you for the clarification. The policy that you cited seems pretty understandable if a business/organization does something other than sell...
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Dear Nick, Please see the bottom of this message; I have posted the full guidelines there for everyone's reference. They are periodically circulated to all...
Education nonprofits are invited to create a profile at http://ClassWish.org. Go to the Groups tab. It's a quick and easy to look good and earn yet another...
Carolyn, DSI's ClientTrack, as they may have told you, is actively involved with providing their product as a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)....
In general, ODB is more optimized for grassroots organizing. In general, CiviCRM is a more sophisticated program. CiviCRM can be accessed by anyone with a web...
Dear ISF and NTEN Colleagues, I'm working with a small nonprofit that wants to make the transition from a Dreamweaver web site to a content management system....
Deborah -- I'll ask the obvious question: Have they done a communication/workflow assessment? In my experience requirements (and the RFPs) should differ ...
Dear Michael, Excellent question! The answer is that, with yours truly working with them intensively, their thinking about web strategy started with two...
Not necessarily small nonprofits. Virginia Tech - Web Content Management System - RFP 646439 http://www.ita.vt.edu/WCMS-RFP.html RFP for the Provision of Web...
As we do every few years, we are looking at the possibility of moving to a new fundraising & mailing list management package. We are looking for something that...
Thought this post from Allyson Kapin at Care2 was timely for you, Deborah. http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2009/10/27/how-to-write-the-best-rfps.html Marc...
Dear ISF Colleagues, Did you know that the Information Systems Forum has an unmoderated version? You can post anything you like there at any time. There are...
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(Guidelines for posting to the Information Systems Forum are posted periodically for the edification of all.) Dear ISF Colleagues, Welcome to the Information...
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Howdy ISF friends, The 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit is just a few weeks away, taking place in Oakland, California. You can check out the latest...
Hi Everyone - Anyone have experience and recommendations for on-line computer tutorials? I am looking for something to help improve Office skills. Thanks, ...
Hi all, I'm at the point where I need to replace a set of aging and inadequate routers at our organization - our needs are somewhat complex, and the system...
Microsoft actually has some fairly good stuff. I don't think it's intended for people who are already power users, but there is a lot of useful stuff, and...
We've been basically using whatever gear the ISP provides, and then layering a Sonic wall on top of it for the security and VPN stuff. It's worked reasonably...
http://www.lynda.com/ is a subscription service with online tutorials on a wide range of software. Rather than charging per item, you get all the tutorials...
Matt, Here are some links to tutorials that I had found for a client last spring: http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/p...
Dear Deborah, As always, thank you for the clarification. What you are saying makes a lot more sense to me. At the end of the day, it is your list and you...
Nick Gleason
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... Kayza, As you imply, there are a multiple of applications out there that bill themselves as fundraising packages or that have fundraising modules, each...
Dear Nick, Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I particularly appreciate your willingness to operate on the level of civil discourse when we disagree. My own...
I am trying to figure out how to decide when a referral website is worth subscribing to. For example if there is a site called grantswriterfinder.com, how can...
Some of you may have already heard that Causes, the peer-to-peer fundraising service that began on Facebook and expanded to MySpace, has shut down its MySpace...
We evaluate this every few years, because this is still a changing field, and needs and expectations also change. So when we run into something that is...
(Dear ISF Colleagues: Please help me spread the word in the the community of nonprofit techies. Volunteers are needed to help with the Hurricane Information...
As a follow-up to the discussion from last week, Joe Solomon, an organizer with Net Squared, posted a round-up of the different thoughts and analyses on the...