by Bill Jacobs | Nov 18, 2013 | Agency
Lynn and I were presenting at a fundraising conference last week. The conference was sponsored by the Browne Innovation Group. You may recall my blog a while back that discussed the emergence of the disruption fundraising model. Lynn and I presented about the...
by Bill Jacobs | Oct 24, 2013 | Agency
Analytical Ones is the third small business I have owned. The first business was more out of necessity. I graduated from college during the early Reagan years. That was before the go-go 80s were going anywhere. The only job offer I got out of college was to be an...
by Bill Jacobs | Sep 24, 2013 | Agency, Big Data
Arguably, the biggest story of the summer was the revelation of how our government is collecting all manner of data on private citizens. And while this isn’t necessarily surprising, it is still somewhat concerning. But I think a bigger story that is playing out both...
by Bill Jacobs | Aug 27, 2013 | Agency
Nearly every consultant in the nonprofit space (me included) has been advocating the concept of online integration. That is, aligning your fundraising messaging online and offline. After a decade of the integrated approach, the Blackbaud benchmark for percent of...
by Bill Jacobs | Aug 6, 2013 | Agency, Big Data
We have been chatting about how the technological movement known as “big data” is at its tipping point and it seems that nothing is going to stop it. But I have noticed something. Big data leads to complexity. Expensive complexity. And it’s not just the technological...
by Bill Jacobs | Jul 15, 2013 | Agency, CRM
Is CRM the nonprofit solution? Everyone is talking about nonprofit organizations needing to buy CRM systems so they can be just like the Obama campaign and mine BIG data to make huge breakthroughs. But I am not so sure. I hesitate to sound like the great Jeff Brooks’...
