In today’s digital world, the question is no longer “What is the cloud?”, but “How do I choose cloud tools that will help us do our work more efficiently?”

Our latest Nonprofits & Cloud Computing webinar series tackles the issue of how to choose and leverage cloud tools for a variety of different uses in your organization: fundraising, communications, programs, and operations.

When all of our supporter data was on 3x5 cards or in a couple of spreadsheets, a lot of the fundraising work we did involved educated guesswork, by necessity.

With the data available to us now, we can segment, slice, dice, even predict future donor behavior, all without a statistics degree.

Join Josh Birkholz, author of the top-selling nonprofit book, Fundraising Analytics: Using Data to Guide Strategy at our upcoming webinar, "Fundraising Analytics for Campaign Planning", for a look at what's possible.

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[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free!]

By Peter Drury, a child's right

a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective.

The first 2012 NTC plenary with visual problem-solving expert Dan Roam – author of Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Don't Work – has just let out. Dan gave a great talk on how to use pictures to communicate in ways everybody can understand, so it only seems right to point to our friends at Rally.org, who have sponsored artists Kate Rutter and Rob Cottingham to document the conference visually.

First up is an illustrated poster of 100 trends in nonprofit technology: