News

Health and Disability Working Group site relaunches

Steve Backman — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:59:39 -0600

The Health and Disability Working Group website (www.hdwg.org) has relaunched as a Drupal site. HDWG is a public health research, training and public information resource project of Boston University's School of Public Health.

FairTest.org site relaunches

Steve Backman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:42:37 -0600

Cambridge, Mass-based national advocacy organization FairTest has relaunched its web site, fairtest.org, based on the Drupal content management system. Also known as The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, FairTest has championed the cause of open and educationally valid assessment of students, teachers and schools, from K12 through college.

Exchanging and integrating data: new article from Idealware

Steve Backman — Sun, 4 Nov 2007 09:12:08 -0600

Our friend Laura Quinn at idealware.org has launched a new initiative to help nonprofit software evaluators and consultants understand options for data exchange and integration. For some organizations, all data in one place remains the holy grail.

Networked Nonprofit Seminar: Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) in a 2.0 World

Steve Backman — Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:21:40 -0500

The next in our series of complementary technology seminars will review of solutions and strategies for tracking contacts and integrating this work with your overall communication strategy

Sign up for the seminar on November 14

Whether a spreadsheet with names and addresses or sophisticated commercial software, almost all nonprofits have some mechanism to track their donors, volunteers and other stakeholders.

MC 2.0 Seminar: New Web 2.0 Strategies to Build Community

Steve Backman — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:14:03 -0500

Location has changed to Bunker Hill Community College Off Orange Line

Next MC2.0 Seminar September 11

Steve Backman — Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:03:30 -0500

Maximize the social return on your IT investment

Steve Rockwell and Steve Backman will lead the next our series of free exploratory workshops on the impact of new technology on organizational development and planning. The workshop will be 11:30 to 1:30 at 6 Beacon St, Boston.

With technology changing so rapidly, how do you know what to invest in and when to wait? How can you ensure that your investment meets the strategic goals of your organization?

On line seminar: Data Integration Basics

Steve Backman — Thu, 5 Jul 2007 05:21:31 -0500

Database Designs' Steve Backman will join Laura Quinn for Idealware's July 11 on-line seminar introducing data integration issues.

As software systems extend their reach, many organizations today wonder at the possibility of "one stop shopping" for their data. Yet for reasons of history, cost, and strategy, most of us will continue to find ourselves using a variety of data collection tools. Constituent data may be collected using on-line web forms, analyzed in donor software, and merged with an internal database use to manage overall operations.

Equal Marriage Victory

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500

The Database Designs team joins in celebrating the preservation of equal marriage protection in the state of Massachusetts.

The Web and Social Change: Lessons from the 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Linda Roistacher — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Just back from the NTC, the Nonprofit Technology Conference, hosted annually by NTEN (NonProfit Technology Network). This year’s theme,Reinventing Politics: Creating Social Change From the Ground Up,drew about 1,200 people to Washington, DC from April 4th 6th.

Announcing Management Consulting 2.0 initiative

Steve Backman — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:24:14 -0500

Management Consulting 2.0

A Strategic Technology Initiative for Boston and Beyond