Hey, do you have screenshots? I'm curious about how your reports look?
Todd, you might want to try blackbus.org. There are a ton of Blackbaud users there and I'm sure they can point you to their resources.
No problem. I should probably update that with thoughts on what\'s coming down the pipe IT-wise.
Seriously, how about not spamming the blog and instead emailing me. I might have been willing to have you guest post instead and now you're just annoying. I will leave your post up there as evidence of your spammy ways.
I know I know. It looks insanely difficult. I prefer that Google handle the ads and not me so I can insulate myself from the need to attract more eyeballs just to help out the advertiser. That said, I'm also too lazy to use my own ad server nor have I joined a particular ad network that might better serve me.
Thanks, Craig, I'm going to update this article soon. Additional data is available now and apaforprogress.org has (according to GA) surpassed the 10,000 visitors per month mark without any significant news stories powering the traffic. In August, APA for Progress created over 6 posts a day which resulted in 9,659 visitors for that month. I don't think APAP can hit that mark again this mark but there's been a surge in search engine traffic to the site because people are looking for Obama's health care summary. I would probably say that any news cycle related to political issues will increase traffic to the APAP site. We're also seeing a rather significant uptick in direct traffic to the site as well suggest that users are getting used to looking for Asian American political news on the site.
And that's the problem with using Macs or Linux. This is why I don't recommend either OS for nonprofits if they are using fundraising software. Linux and the Mac OS are both great operating systems but at this time, they're suboptimal if you want to raise money. This is a case where the IT department must align itself with the business needs of the organization despite the problems behind Windows.
Sorry, IEgea, I think you need to get your sys admin to install Parallel on your Mac. This is not a technical issue but a business decision has to be made to re-align your IT assets with your strategy.
I normally do promote free software but generally speaking, not Linux. The problem is that a lot of desktop fundraising software doesn't run on Linux. Most of them are Windows-based.
However, If a nonprofit is comfortable with using CiviCRM or salesforce.com or Convio's Common Ground, it's well worth the look. At this time, I am unwilling to commit nonprofits to an immature codebase in regards to Linux and say the offline edition of salesforce.com for nonprofits.
Sorry AMH, but I laughed when I read your comment. I think you should always try free but the problem isn\'t the free part so much as the lack of thinking on your part. Yes, you can start a blog for free but your traffic isn\'t going anywhere if you stop at that point. There\'s a lot of real thinking that needs to occur if you plan on growing traffic and your comments only serve to exacerbate an intellectual laziness that I find often among techies. If the technical object of a blog were to simply create the blog, then free would be fine. However, you\'d have a hell of a time convincing managers that that makes sense as a business proposition.
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