RFPs GOOD. Fixed Bids BAD.

RFPs GOOD. Fixed Bids BAD.

It occurs to me that my signature rant these days is not clearly posted on my own blog. Let’s fix.

13 Lessons On Building Your Nonprofit Technology Culture

13 Lessons On Building Your Nonprofit Technology Culture

This article originally appeared on the Exponent Partners blog on December 19th, 2014. It was written by Kerry Vineburg, based.

Architecting Healthy Data Management Systems

Architecting Healthy Data Management Systems

This article was originally published in the NTEN eBook “Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits” in January of 2014. Introduction The reasons.

Three Ways To Make Sure that Your Next Big Software Project Is A Success

Three Ways To Make Sure that Your Next Big Software Project Is A Success

This post also appeared on the Cloud for Good Blog in April of 2014. Buying a new fundraising CRM or replacing.

Talking Databases For A Change

Talking Databases For A Change

NTEN's new issue of Change is out and I got a chance to sound off to Idealware's Chris Bernard about the dream of "one database to rule them all" -- doing all of your organization's Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) in a single system. My interview is on page 22, but the whole issue is a dream for NPO's struggling with wrangling information.

Salesforce Show and Tell

Salesforce Show and Tell

Day 2 of the Salesforce Non-Profit Roadmap session was focused on refining plans and sharing information. We had sessions and.

Mapping NP Salesforce

Mapping NP Salesforce

Day one of the Salesforce Roadmap session was a well-crafted, but fairly standard run at typical strategic planning. Hosted by.

The future of Salesforce

The future of Salesforce

I’m attending a strategic planning session at Salesforce.com this week devoted to planning the roadmap for non-profit use of the.

Seven Questions For Peter Campbell On Open APIs

Seven Questions For Peter Campbell On Open APIs

This interview was conducted by Holly Ross and first published on the NTEN Blog in July of 2006. What’s an.