by Maureen Wallbeoff | Nov 28, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Case Study, Fundraising, Technology
If you’re like me, you probably belong to several nonprofit-oriented social media groups, discussion forums, and listservs. These communities provide a much-needed space for conversations and advice about the many things that pop up on the regular in the life of a...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Nov 15, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising
It’s enough to make any development manager crawl right back into bed. “I want you to run an end-of-year campaign,” my colleague James’ boss had just told him. “We also need to do something on Giving Tuesday.” You know… Giving Tuesday? The big nonprofit fundraising...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Sep 27, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Project Management, Technology
When I spoke with my client, Jackie, back in May, she was pumped. She had been planning a project and budget for a new website for what seemed like forever and she just got word it was approved! Whoop whoop! Together, we had just finished refining the organization’s...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Sep 13, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Technology
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago at the Bridge Conference in DC. Well, it would have been funny if the stakes weren’t so high. I was leading a group of nonprofit accidental techies through an exercise to rate their general satisfaction with the platforms they...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Aug 29, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Project Management, Technology
You could cut the tension with a knife. A client’s tech project was running late. Really late. And a month after a show-stopper problem had been identified, there was still no clarity on when it would be resolved. An emergency huddle was called. I was asked to sit in....
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Aug 15, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Technology
As the VP of Development and Marketing at a large environmental organization, Matt is always thinking ahead. He told me that recently, over and over, people keep telling him he “needs to move to Salesforce.” People he trusts from small and large organizations are...
