What we’re reading, week of 8/18

From Give & Take…
Making Charity Web Sites More Informative
More on a topic we love to discuss – the Chronicle offers some ideas about how nonprofits can become more transparent through their websites.

From NTEN…
Rate Your Donor Management Software
The survey is now open! Respondents can take this 5-10 minute survey to rate their donor management systems.

From Non-Profit Tech Blog…
More on Convio Not Going Public…
Allen Benamer points us to a Fortune Magazine article offering more explanation of Convio’s decision not to go public. “Personally, I would love for more nonprofit CRM vendors to go public,” says Allen. ”It makes it easier for me to cover them because of the added transparency.” Note the recurring theme here!

From A Small Change…
Raise Supporters Not Support
Jason Dick is back in action with a thoughtful post about the difference between fundraising and creating cause evangelists. Great reading. See also: Seth Godin on Sneezers.

What we’re reading, week of 8/4

From Don’t Tell the Donor…
Convio decides not to take company public
DTTD discusses Gene Austin’s announcement this week that he does not intend to take Convio public. “Simply put,” he says, “good companies don’t go public in bad markets.”

From Non-Profit Tech Blog…
Read about Convio’s decision to not go public
Allen Benamer comments on the situation, discussing Convio’s financial successes and policy stumbles, and the sad state of the market for tech IPOs.

From AFP…
The Purposeful Techie: Nonprofit IT with Intention
AFP links to an onPhilanthropy article concerning the phenomenon of “the accidental techie” in nonprofits, and how nonprofits can approach their IT staffing needs with more intention.

From The Fundraising Coach…
Would you help me with Technorati?
A friendly request from Marc Pitman to help give his blog some visibility on Technorati. It just requires one click to “favorite” The Fundraising Coach. We like his blog a lot, so we’re doing it!