http://www.blogbaud.com/blog A Nonprofit Blog Powered By Blackbaud Employees Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:37:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi everyone. Just a reminder that all of us Blogbaudians have picked up and moved into new digs over at blogs.blackbaud.com. Come by and see us! Product Blogs The User's Edge — The official blog of The Raiser's Edge The Ledger — The official blog of The Financial Edge The Spotlight — The official ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/05/23/sorry-we-missed-you-but-weve-moved/ As part of our upgraded online community, some new blogs are coming to life over at Blackbaud.com: The User's Edge: The Official Blog of the Raiser's Edge The Ledger: The Official Blog of The Financial Edge The Spotlight: The Official Blog of The Patron Edge There are also a couple of personal blogs: Steve ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/03/04/more-blogs-springing-to-life-at-blackbaudcom/ Packaging Your Organization to Communicate Impact The Way the User Wants to Experience It I've had the pleasure of consulting closely with countless unique clients with diverse missions, yet all face a common challenge. They struggle to position their organizations effectively in a manner which communicates the impact of their ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/02/21/moving-marketing-outside-of-your-organizational-box-and-into-marketing-20/ Beginning today, I'll be posting over at the new blog — Connections. This is the next little social media experiment from Blackbaud and there will be other blogs popping up soon. I've reposted my entries from BlogBaud and hope to take things in some new directions. I hope you'll give ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/02/20/new-blog-connections/ Yesterday's BlackBerry outage gave me a chance to catch up on some reading. (But let's just keep that between me and you.) So here are some blogs and articles worth a look: Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new blog called Brainstorm that I've added to my reading ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/02/12/around-the-blogosphere-2/ Designing for Extensibility One of the coolest parts about building software is designing for extensibility. When you are building a system that must support extensibility you apply much more rigor around what programming interfaces are exposed, being sure they are resilient from release to release, and a whole host ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-netcommunity-developer-community/ Blackbaud recently released the 2007 State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey and you can click here to download a copy. The SONI survey was conducted between July 17th and August 11th, 2007 and had a total of 1,140 respondents. All surveys and polls should be taken with a grain of ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/02/05/2007-state-of-the-nonprofit-industry-survey/ Before coming to Blackbaud in 2004, I spent many moons on the interactive design/information architecture/user experience/visual communication side of the world. So while I've been immersed enough in the technical bits & bytes to grok about it — my interest and passion has always been with the human rods & ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/01/31/extreme-website-makeovers/ There are a growing number of nonprofit focused blogs and I keep an ever growing list. Here are some blog entries that caught my eye this morning: Allan Benamer - Allan's latest entry is about Project Agape and his concerns that their Causes application on Facebook is not raising a tremendous ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/01/29/around-the-blogosphere/ Yesterday's 2008 Digital Communications for Charities Conference here in London was pretty interesting. A very big crowd, some good presentations, and a lot of great discussions. The panel discussion about transparency got rather spirited as everyone seemed to have an opinion about what and how much to disclose to supporters. ... http://www.blogbaud.com/blog/2008/01/25/fundraising-trends-in-the-uk/