Kayza: RE branding: yes, but I had mentioned bit.ly because they are the easiest
service that provides click rate statistics. (Create a bit.lyaccount and all
bit.ly links created after that point will be counted and summarized in the home
screen). It would be one way of measuring the effectiveness of the email sigs -
whether people click them at all or not.
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>> That?s an interesting way to  use sigs. But, I certainly would not use a
it.ly or other shortener. The longer, correct URL is part of your randing, and
the extra few letters are not really an issue in this context. >>

Happy New Year All!

I've been using the Benton/SBC/Robert Woods Johnson/NPower "Technology Literacy
Benchmarks for Nonprofit Organizations" for tech assessments. I like the layout
and organization very much. Some time back, it occurred to me that Page 27 is
WRONG and one of you savvy people supplied me with that missing page.

Fast forward to now, one computer crash later. A local college prof wants to use
the benchmarks in his MIS for Nonprofits course, and of course we need that
missing page. Anybody?

Or, better yet, does anyone have an instrument they like better? When I was
looking, a year ago, I didn't find anything as good, even though this one is
woefully out of date (Web 2.0 is missing altogether, for example.) It's easier
to make up new sections to reflect today's tech literacy than it is to use the
clunky Excel stuff I found then.

So: What are you using to assess the tech literacy of the nonprofits you're
working with? And/Or: Have you got Page 27 you could email me?

TIA,
Trish Perkins, still a VISTA volunteer
FaithAction International House
Guilford Nonprofit Consortium
Worlds Touch
Greensboro, NC

I encourage you to visit http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net and review the
interactive map, the searchable program locator and the Map Gallery. This can be
used by people to find volunteer opportunities and/or student placements in
tutor/mentor programs. However, it's primary goal is that it is used by leaders
in business, philanthropy, government, etc. to determine where these programs
are needed, what level of distribution now exists for different types of
programs, serving different age groups,  and what strategies can  be deployed to
help existing programs get the continuous operating dollars and other resources
needed for constant improvement, as well as ways to build new programs in areas
with voids.

The maps are part of a much larger library of information hosted at
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org

This is still a work in progress because of inconsistent funding and I'm not
sure it meets all of the criteria for your list. However, it's a model that many
may be interested in.

Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
800 W. Huron
Chicago, Il. 60642



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>> This is to remind you that if you have developed (or are currently
developing) an online tool that assists nonprofits and philanthropies in
capacity mapping or resource matching, then we like to invite you to add it to
our directory!  You can add your project by going to this online form: 
<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDFyNDg2Wk1pTGZ3MDJER2l
qQnZ5dEE6MA>  But before you add it, please double-check to make sure that your
project meets all of these criteria:  - It is (or will be) an online tool.  - It
is focused on (or will focus on) serving nonprofit, philanthropic, or
community-based organizations.  - It offers (or will offer) data about needs in
the community - or data about assets, capacities. and resources that are
available to meet those needs - or both.  - The potential exists (or will exist)
for data interchange, search, or aggregation.  Please note that if what you have
is a simply a web site with great content about your favorite topic, or a great
piece of software that you'd like to promote anywhere you can without regard for
whether it is actually the kind of tool that we're seeking, then it's not
eligible to be listed in our directory. Please also note that if you are simply
seeking to advertise your services as a developer, you are not eligible to be
listed in our directory.  All listings have to be a web-based tools that
contribute to matching needs and resources for organizations that benefit the
community.  This directory will be used by an informal brain trust of nonprofit,
philanthropic, and technology professionals to understand what online tools are
available (or in the pipeline) and to explore possibilities for collaboration
and integration.>>

-----original message-----
>>I encourage you to visit http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net and review
the interactive map, the searchable program locator and the Map Gallery. This
can be used by people to find volunteer opportunities and/or student placements
in tutor/mentor programs. However, it's primary goal is that it is used by
leaders in business, philanthropy, government, etc. to determine where these
programs are needed, what level of distribution now exists for different types
of programs, serving different age groups,  and what strategies can  be
deployed to help existing programs get the continuous operating dollars and
other resources needed for constant improvement, as well as ways to build new
programs in areas with voids.  The maps are part of a much larger library of
information hosted at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org  This is still a work
in progress because of inconsistent funding and I'm not sure it meets all of the
criteria for your list. However, it's a model that many may be interested in.>>

Dear Dan,

The GIS/mapping work of the Tutor/Mentor program is so great that it's
definitely worth reminding everyone on the list about it!

As for whether it meets the four criteria that I previously mentioned
for the directory that I'm compiling - that's your call.  If you think
it does, you can go to
<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDFyNDg2Wk1pTGZ3MDJER2l
qQnZ5dEE6MA> and enter it.

Many thanks from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

Alternatively, you could create a separate entrance page on your website and use
its URL solely for email sigs.  Then look at the statistics available on your
web host for that page.



-----original message-----
>>Kayza: RE branding: yes, but I had mentioned bit.ly because they are the
easiest service that provides click rate statistics. (Create a bit.lyaccount and
all bit.ly links created after that point will be counted and summarized in the
home screen). It would be one way of measuring the effectiveness of the email
sigs - whether people click them at all or not.>>

Hi Trish,

I just sent you a scanned copy of the missing page.

Robert
__________________________

Robert L. Weiner Consulting
415/643-8955
robert@...
www.rlweiner.com

Strategic Technology Advisors to Nonprofit and Educational Institutions




-----original message-----
>>Happy New Year All! I've been using the Benton/SBC/Robert Woods Johnson/NPower
"Technology Literacy Benchmarks for Nonprofit Organizations" for tech
assessments. I like the layout and organization very much. Some time back, it
occurred to me that Page 27 is WRONG and one of you savvy people supplied me
with that missing page.  Fast forward to now, one computer crash later. A local
college prof wants to use the benchmarks in his MIS for Nonprofits course, and
of course we need that missing page. Anybody?>>

Two hats at one organization. One is organization-wide - the CIO hat, and the
other is specific to the program I am running.

The links are my blog, the JCCGCI web site, and the web site for the particular
program I run.

Kayza Kleinman
CIO &
Director, Nonprofit Helpdesk
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, Inc

http://kayzasblog.nphd.org/
www.jccgci.org<http://www.jccgci.org>
www.nphd.org<http://www.nphd.org>

Helping you do good - better.




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>>That trick to add the contact to Outlook is good, but what if the recipient
uses ACT or Salesforce?  As to two hats, just show both.  Your sig looks like
one org with some random links below.  Without clicking, I have no idea what the
links are.>>

Here's a trick that I've used to track traffic sources without having to create
and manage another page: add an identifier at the end of the URL. For example,
if you want people to land on www.home.org/campaign.asp, you can add "?"
followed by identifying text. The "?" does not change where a user lands (they
would still get to home.org), but your analytics program will likely be able to
track it as a separate URL.

Here's an example: www.home.org/campaign.asp?src=sig

Also note that if you add the "?" directly following the root URL, you will need
to either add a slash (e.g. www.home.org/?src=sig) or use the full address (e.g.
www.home.org/index?src=sig).

I mimicked this method from some of the email campaign services out there but am
definitely still an amateur when it comes to web design, so if anyone has any
caveats, please share.

Buddy Rutzke, MSW

Consumer Direction Module (CDM) Technology Manager
rutzke@... <mailto:rutzke@...>
617-552-6814
National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services
Boston College Graduate School of Social Work

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Dear ISF Colleagues,

The Short Awards are all about recognizing the best producers of short
real time content.  In other words, this is about using Twitter to
deliver the news.

I note with interest that nominations are open in the "nonprofit"
category <http://shortyawards.com/category/nonprofit> and the "tech"
category <http://shortyawards.com/category/tech>, but that there isn't
an "NPtech" category.

Well, maybe we should have one.  For example, Beth Kanter
<http://twitter.com/kanter> would make a great nominee.

If you already have a Twitter account, and you'd like to vote up Beth
in the nomination process for a Shorty Award, here's how to do it:

1)  Go to <http://shortyawards.com/>, and find "Shorty Voting"

2)  Edit the message box so that it reads "I nominate @kanter for a
Shorty Award in #nptech because (add your reason here)"

3)  Click on "Tweet your vote"

4)  Enter your Twitter name and password, and then click "Allow"

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

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 no restrictions
whatsover.

To view the unmoderated ISF's message archive, please go to
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED/messag\
es>.

To join the unmoderated ISF, please send a blank email to this address: 
<Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.

To post a message to the ISF, please send it to this address:
<Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED@yahoogroups.com>.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
www.cyber-yenta.org
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909

"Everybody can be great...
because everybody can serve."
- Martin Luther King jr. (1929 - 1968)

It could possibly wreck some CMSs, especially on poorly-configured web servers
w/o mod_rewrite, which rely on the GET string. Admittedly unlikely, but just
make sure you aren't going to break something by adding that -- in other words,
test it first. :)

(As an example: my current gmail window has a url of
http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox ; if you add another ? you could mess
things up; you'd need an & instead.)

A dedicated redirect is probably safer, though this way is more convenient if it
works for you.



-----original message-----
>>Here's a trick that I've used to track traffic sources without having to
create and manage another page: add an identifier at the end of the URL. For
example, if you want people to land on www.home.org/campaign.asp, you can add
"?" followed by identifying text. The "?" does not change where a user lands
(they would still get to home.org), but your analytics program will likely be
able to track it as a separate URL.  Here's an example:
www.home.org/campaign.asp?src=sig  Also note that if you add the "?" directly
following the root URL, you will need to either add a slash (e.g.
www.home.org/?src=sig) or use the full address (e.g.
www.home.org/index?src=sig).  I mimicked this method from some of the email
campaign services out there but am definitely still an amateur when it comes to
web design, so if anyone has any caveats, please share.>>

-----original message-----
>>For example, if you want people to land on www.home.org/campaign.asp, you can
add "?" followed by identifying text.  Here's an example:
www.home.org/campaign.asp?src=sig    if anyone has any caveats, please share.>>




I wouldn't rule the method out, but there are caveats.

.asp , .pl .php .cfm .jsp, etc, etc files are generally scripts, or at least can
have scripts emmbeded in the static html

The parts of the URL after the '?' are inputs to the script.

Well written scripts complain if they are given unexpected inputs.

Badly written scripts fail if they are given unexpected inputs.

A careful person might find out what campaign.asp is supposed to do before
supplying it unexpected inputs.

Or not, a lot of times people include only static html in these types of pages.

Dear ISF Colleagues,

I'm writing to you on behalf of my client, C3 Conferencing, to let you
know that C3 has just announced a grant program for organizations that
are seeking to enhance their communications.  Nonprofit organizations
with 501(c)3 status are eligible to apply for  $2,500 in cash and
$2,500 in audio, video, and web conferencing services.

If you'd like to see my blog article about C3 Conferencing's grant
program, along with the official announcement, and the fine print of
the award, please go to <http://ow.ly/Ve5R>.

If you'd like to go straight to the form for submitting a proposal,
please go to <http://ow.ly/Vh5i>.

Nonprofit organizations that are actively seeking to take their social
media strategies to the next level should definitely apply.  I hope
that you'll help me get the word out to them!

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

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Hi ISFers:

There’s a fantastic webinar coming up that I wanted to let you all know about.
Did you know that activists on your nonprofit’s email list are seven times
more likely to donate money to your organization than non-activists are?  Start
2010 off right by adopting the latest best practices for online advocacy as a
proven strategy to recruit and retain donors, while advancing your mission.

Join  (https://care2.webex.com/care2/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=668664929) advocacy and
fundraising consultant Steve Daigneault, former Internet Director for Amnesty
International, and Blackbaud’s Mark Davis for a free, 1-hour webinar on
Tuesday, January 26th about optimizing online advocacy to boost fundraising
results. The moderator will be Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at
Care2, the 12 million member online social network of “do-gooders” used
successfully by hundreds of nonprofit organizations to recruit loyal donors and
advocacy supporters.

Get real world examples of dos and don’ts and learn: ·      Key benchmarks
and trends for online advocacy and fundraising campaigns; ·      The data and
psychology of connecting advocacy and fundraising; ·      New strategies to
turn activists into donors in 2010; ·      And more….

Connecting Advocacy to Fundraising - for Maximum Impact Tuesday, January 26,
2010 at 2 pm EST.

We have a limited amount of webinar lines, so please take a moment to sign up
now. It's free. https://care2.webex.com/care2/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=668664929

About Our Presenters: Mark Davis: Mark is the Director of Technical Solutions at
Blackbaud. He has worked directly with many of the largest nonprofits in the
industry, such as American Heart Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters of
America, and Arthritis Foundation, helping to deploy online fundraising
solutions. As one of the original architects of Friends Asking Friends
technology, he has actively participated in the development of the Blackbaud
Sphere™ product. He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Duke
University and a master’s degree in engineering from Stanford University.

Steve Daigneault: Steve is Vice President of eCampaigns at M+R Strategic
Services. He uses his 15 years of experience as a grassroots organizer,
communications specialist and online strategist to work for M+R clients
including the Save Darfur Coalition, the American Cancer Society and U.S. Fund
for UNICEF.  Before coming to M+R, Steve served as Managing Director for
Internet Communications at Amnesty International USA, where he developed an
email strategy that nearly tripled Amnesty’s list in less than three years;
launched award-winning campaign micro-sites; and helped grow Amnesty’s online
fundraising program, even amid the September 2008 stock market crash.  Steve has
also worked as a consultant and strategist for the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Aspen
Institute, Audubon Society, SaveOurEnvironment.org, Opportunity Agenda and the
United Nations Association.

Justin Perkins (Moderator): Since 2006, Justin has worked with Care2 to help
over 120 nonprofits and socially responsible brands customize strategic
campaigns to reach Care2's audience of 12 million members and to leverage
Care2's audience to reach other networks. He also develops new tools to help
nonprofits with marketing and fundraising, and frequently speaks at nonprofit
conferences about social media strategy and online marketing. Justin launched
the popular nonprofit blog, frogloop.com, for Care2 in 2006 as a way to share
cutting edge case studies and best practices for nonprofit online marketing.

About us: Care2 is a for-profit company. Our nonprofit partners pay for the
results-guaranteed, unique campaigns that we build and market for them.

Cheers,
Larissa
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Hi folks. I'm looking for a suite of tools to do performance benchmarking and
hardware diagnostics. Goals of set are:

-          Professional Duty

-          As hands off as possible - start running, leave, return to get
results (definitely not a bundle of 40 tools I have to run individually)

-          Non-os dependent - bootable cd or usb drive solution preferably (I
don't care if it's a bootable linux cd or something, but need tools that don't
have to be installed on a functioning OS on the computer)

I'm open to other suggestions, that is just my dream list. I would like to know
about tools for a specific OS that are available (such as Win XP), but I'm also
looking for knoppix type solutions that can be used on a computer with a crashed
hard drive for example.

Thank you!

Sean Watson

Nonprofit Technology Consultant
TechEffect - Get Tech, Get Effective
Office: 919.373.4234
Cell: 919.491.2648
Email:  <mailto:sean@...> sean@...
Website:  <http://www.seanwatson.com/> http://www.seanwatson.com
Twitter:  <http://twitter.com/seanericwatson/>
http://twitter.com/seanericwatson/
Facebook:  <http://www.facebook.com/SeanEricWatson>
http://www.facebook.com/SeanEricWatson
Del.icio.us:  <http://delicious.com/Seanericwatson>
http://delicious.com/Seanericwatson

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I am working with a client to do some initial looking at a new Donor Management
system.  They are relatively small - under $1 million a year in revenues.  The
currently use an Access-based system.

1)Who is using salesforce.com with the relatively new Nonprofit Starter Pack? 
The Salesforce.com foundation offers free 10-user licenses to this software  for
free to 501(c)(3).

foundation.force.com/home

2)Anyone using the Access based Devolito Donor Management Database?  If was
previously available from NPower Seattle.

3) Anyone using DonorAccess - from www.donoraccess.com.  The software was listed
for $500.  Not clear if they are still in business.

4) Anyone using the free template offered by Microsoft for Access 2007?  It
appears to have been developed in three months by a college intern.
blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2008/01/08/charitable-contributions-templated.aspx

Anyone using free or nominally priced Microsoft Access based donor management
software that they would recommend?

Thanks

Bob

Dear ISF Colleagues,

I'm working on a project that is gearing up to create a prototype of a
web site that provides search and aggregation of carefully vetted
answers to frequently asked questions about nonprofit management.

If you're interested in learning more about the prototype, and about
my unbridled speculations about this idea can be scaled up to a
regional or even national level, you're welcome to take a look at my
blog article:

<http://ow.ly/Wia8>

And do please feel free to share your thoughts about this here on the
Information Systems Forum!

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

Bob,

Keep in mind that while the Salesforce licenses are free, one still has to pay
for an implementer to build the database.  Unless you plan to do it in-house, of
course.

One of the best off-the-shelf solutions I've seen is the DonorPro package. 
Check that out if you like at http://www.donorpro.com.

Cindy Leonard
Technology Services Manager
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
at Robert Morris University


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Dear ISF Colleagues,

As many of you know, one of my pro bono side projects is running the
Nonprofit Tech Jobs list.  It's run as a free service to the community, on
the assumption that connecting technology professionals with jobs in the
nonprofit and philanthropic sector is a pretty good thing.

I've gotten to the point where I've rolled up several feeds (from the email
distribution list, from NTEN, and from Idealist) into a dedicated Twitter
account <http://twitter.com/NPtechJobs>.  Now what I'd like to do is channel
all that into the Nonprofit Tech Jobs account on Delicious <
http://delicious.com/nptechjobs>, but I can't figure out a way to transmit
links from Twitter to Delicious automatically.  (At first, I thought that
Ping.fm might do the trick, but while you can use Ping to transmit
simultaneously to Twitter and Delicious, I don't see a way to use it to port
a Twitter feed into a Delicious feed.)

Any suggestions?

Many thanks from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
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Deborah,

I think concept-wise, it would be a two step process:

1. Use Yahoo Pipes to grab the Twitter RSS feed, identify the text string within
the content enclosure beginning with http:// and ending with a blank space, and
overwrite the item URL with it. (The original item URL will be the tweet
permalink)

2. Use ping.fm to post this retouched Yahoo Pipes RSS feed to delicious. ping.fm
had this warning message, though:

> *Delicious has recently moved to an OAuth platform for authentication. New >
delicious users won't be able to authenticate their accounts until Delicious >
opens up the API so we can upgrade. Sorry for the mess!* > Does this mean
delicious accounts created after a certain point cannot be used by ping.fm? Not
sure, but my personal acct, which was created in 2005, seemed to authenticate
fine.

...but wait, did you say you already tried to post to delicious using ping.fm? I
believe it's possible even without step 1 - it's just cosmetically bothersome
because it will link to each tweet instead of the link directly, but it still
works, no? Check https://ping.fm/delicious/while logged in.

I believe people haven't made a mashable like this because step 1 is highly
error conducive - there's prone to be more than one link in a twitter feed, and
what is the app supposed to do then? Not all feeds are strict on format like the
NPtechJobs twitter acct.

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-----original message-----
>>As many of you know, one of my pro bono side projects is running the Nonprofit
Tech Jobs list. It's run as a free service to the community, on the assumption
that connecting technology professionals with jobs in the nonprofit and
philanthropic sector is a pretty good thing.  I've gotten to the point where
I've rolled up several feeds (from the email distribution list, from NTEN, and
from Idealist) into a dedicated Twitter account <http://twitter.com/NPtechJobs>.
Now what I'd like to do is channel all that into the Nonprofit Tech Jobs account
on Delicious < http://delicious.com/nptechjobs>, but I can't figure out a way to
transmit links from Twitter to Delicious automatically. (At first, I thought
that Ping.fm might do the trick, but while you can use Ping to transmit
simultaneously to Twitter and Delicious, I don't see a way to use it to port a
Twitter feed into a Delicious feed.)  Any suggestions?>>

Dear ISF Colleagues,

Here's the response from the good folks at Delicious.  I'm going to
give it a shot.

As for using Ping.fm - what I've found this far is that I can cut and
paste stuff into Ping, but I haven't found a way to channel tweets
automatically from Twitter to Ping to all of the other places I might
want it to go.  Near as I can tell, Ping is just not set up to
transfer messages from Twitter to Delicious, or from Delicious to
Twitter, for that matter.

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

-----from Delicious Customer Care-----

Hello Deborah,

Thank you for writing to Delicious.

I understand that you're wondering whether it is possible to bookmarks
all links you tweet in Delicious automatically. I'd be happy to look
into this for you.

We don't offer anything like this, however this Firefox extension claims
to to exactly that:

   http://friedcell.net/tweecious/get

We hope this information has helped.  Please let us know if our answer
did not resolve your issue and if you need further assistance.

Thank you again for writing to Delicious.

Regards,

Desmond

Delicious Customer Support
Delicious E2Y

-----------

Dear Colleagues,

I thought that those of you who are involved in online fundraising
might want to listen to this session at the Ethos Roundtable.  Our
featured guest, Clay Ward, explains his team new fundraising tool,
Procrasdonate:

<http://ow.ly/YE6X>

As you'll hear, many of us were excited about by Procrasdonate - not
only because of its fundraising possibilities, but because of its
potential as a mechanism to prompt individuals to devote time to
community projects or even to committing random acts of kindness.

Special note to Change.Org, the Extraordinaries, and Groundcrew:  is
it time for a mash-up?

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

Bob,

I worked with Aspiration to put together a list of every donor database we could
identify.  It's now on Social Source Commons:
http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661

In the course of that research we decided that Devolio and DonorAccess no longer
exist as supported products.  Here is a 2-part list of databases I think are
defunct:

http://www.rlweiner.com/defunct-donor-databases

http://www.rlweiner.com/more-defunct-donor-databases

Have you looked at Idealware's Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management
Systems? http://www.idealware.org/low_cost_donor/download.php It talks about the
Salesforce starter pack as well as Convio's version (Common Ground), plus lots
of other "inexpensive" databases.  While most cost more than $500 (the cutoff
was $4,250 in the first year for 1 user), a few truly inexpensive systems are
discussed, like Giftworks, Exceed! Basic, BasicFunder, LifeLine, EasyWare, and
ODB.

As others have said, you need to be aware that Salesforce is free as in puppies
- it usually requires lots of care and feeding, and can get quite expensive if
the organization isn't prepared to do that work themselves.

Robert
__________________________

Robert L. Weiner Consulting
415/643-8955
robert@...
www.rlweiner.com

Strategic Technology Advisors to Nonprofit and Educational Institutions



-----original message-----
>>I am working with a client to do some initial looking at a new Donor
Management system.  They are relatively small - under $1 million a year in
revenues.  The currently use an Access-based system. 1)Who is using
salesforce.com with the relatively new Nonprofit Starter Pack?  The
Salesforce.com foundation offers free 10-user licenses to this software  for
free to 501(c)(3).  foundation.force.com/home   2)Anyone using the Access based
Devolito Donor Management Database?  If was previously available from NPower
Seattle.  3) Anyone using DonorAccess - from www.donoraccess.com.  The software
was listed for $500.  Not clear if they are still in business.  4) Anyone using
the free template offered by Microsoft for Access 2007?  It appears to have been
developed in three months by a college intern.
blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2008/01/08/charitable-contributions-templated.
aspx   Anyone using free or nominally priced Microsoft Access based donor
management software that they would recommend?>>

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 no restrictions
whatsover.

To view the unmoderated ISF's message archive, please go to
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED/messag\
es>.

To join the unmoderated ISF, please send a blank email to this address: 
<Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.

To post a message to the ISF, please send it to this address:
<Information_Systems_Forum_UNMODERATED@yahoogroups.com>.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
www.cyber-yenta.org
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909

"Everybody can be great...
because everybody can serve."
- Martin Luther King jr. (1929 - 1968)

Dear ISF Colleagues,

If you're going to be within traveling distance of Cambridge,
Massachusetts (USA) on February 16th, I'd really like to encourage you
to attend this session of the Ethos Roundtable, where the
Massachusetts Nonprofit Database will be showcased:

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Featured guests: Tom Pollak and Doug Denatale, developers of the
Massachusetts Nonprofit Database

More information can be found here: <http://ow.ly/ZSRp>.

The Massachusetts Nonprofit Database has immense potential
significance.  First of all, it is a powerful tool for nonprofit
organizations.  Secondly, it can be extremely informative (i.e.,
"eye-openng") for anyone who is thinking of starting a new program or
organization intended to benefit the community.  Thirdly, it will be
crucial for anyone who believes in greater accountability and
transparency for organizations that are granted tax-exempt status.

Please join us on February 16th for this opportunity to see for yourself.

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

Dear ISF Colleagues,

I thought that you might be interested in this blog article:

<http://ow.ly/ZX2s>

The bottom line is that I think that the time is rapidly approach for
us to create an online tool for regional resource matching to assist
nonprofits, philanthropies, and communities.  Many of the pieces of
the puzzle are in place - now we need to supply the missing pieces and
focus on the goal.

At least, that's my opinion. What are your thoughts?

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Strategist and Consultant
Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Email: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
Blog: www.deborahelizabethfinn.com
Skype:  Deborah909
Twitter: Deborah909
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Deborah.Elizabeth.Finn

I bring resources and needs together for nonprofits and
philanthropies, mostly through strategic use of information
and communication technologies.

Anyone familiar with the UK's IT4Communities initiative?  YOU can see their web
site

http://www.it4communities.org.uk/it4c/home/About/index.html

and read an article about them

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/24/234986/charities-need-donation\
s-of-it-skills.htm

Is there anything like this here in the USA?

Besides this newsgroup, there is

techsoup.com

npower.org

Various cities have versions of "Centers for nonprofits" some of which address
IT needs

The United Way of Greater Tulsa has an NTech Collaboration program that does
this.

Are there others that I am missing?

Anyone interested in starting such a capability here in the States?

Bob

-----original message-----
From: Laura Quinn, Idealware <laura@...>
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Introducing the Field Guide to Nonprofit Software
To: deborah_elizabeth_finn@...


We're thrilled to announce the launch of Idealware's first book: The Field Guide
to Software for Nonprofits: Fundraising, Communications and Outreach.

Look inside the book, via a PDF preview version
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6a2i0FLHGpVGRzliJ9%2Bhiu\
Ifhvzte1Sf>

What types of software should your nonprofit be using?  It's hard to
even know what exists, let alone what is best for your organization.
Through a friendly, easy-reference format, Idealware's 2010 Field
Guide to Software for Nonprofits: Fundraising, Communications and
Outreach helps you pinpoint the types of software that can increase
your organization's effectiveness and efficiency. And it de-mystifies
the possible options through user-friendly summaries based on your
needs and technical maturity.
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XfTIhumBrF0%2BUY3ZHSHPIe\
Ifhvzte1Sf>

The Field Guide includes an overview of 35 different types of
software, helping you to understand what each is, how it fits in with
your needs, how much you might expect to pay, and some of the most
common vendors in the area.

Purchase the 84-page paperback book through Lulu.com for $19.95, and
it will be shipped directly to your door. Buy the book now >

(Interested in distributing the Field Guide to a group of nonprofits - like your
members, grantees, or affiliates? It's available for licensing and customization
for very attractive rates. View more info about group licensing
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HQf%2Bl%2Fp6sG4DMK72nI6z\
y%2BIfhvzte1Sf>)

We're excited to make this great resource available, and hope you enjoy it!

Laura
--
Laura Quinn | Executive Director | Idealware
laura@... | www.idealware.org

Helping Nonprofits Make Smart Software Decisions
Find us on Twitter: @idealware or Facebook: /idealware