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7 tips for finding duplicates in your database
Ok, you’ve been somehow landed yourself the job of being the data monkey. Someone has given you a list of clients, donors, customers, three-headed atlantic goats and you’ve been asked to do something...
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How to stuff up your fundraising database without even trying
There’s some things that just come in pairs. Salt and Pepper. Kermit & Piggy. Bonnie and Clyde. Van Gogh and Ears… So it’s not surprising that when you divorce database functionality from process...
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The chocolate mail preference
OK, you’ve spent months getting everything right for your new database. You have asked everyone in the office once, twice and some three times over what the ‘lookup’ values should be for all the drop...
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Data and creativity
Over at Beth’s Blog she’s discussing the value of quantitative and qualitative data in not for profits (translated – numbers and stories). Beth says that she likes to start with numbers and then use...
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Miss Milly sells spats to snakes
I have a colleague who could sell spats to snakes. I once had a boss who was similar. A mate said of her ‘she could say you had two months to live and somehow you’d think that was good news’. Indeed...
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Data Mining for Fundraisers
I know, I know… it sounds like you’re in for a boring post. ‘Feeding your brand manager to the lions’… now that would be a good title for a post! But alas, ‘data mining for fundraisers’ it is. Why?...
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The nuclear fundraiser: 3 figures every data analyst should know
Next week I’ll be attending one day of the Fundraising Institute of Australia’s conference. After some recent interactions with fellow fundraisers, I’m walking into this conference trying to prepare...
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A premium cynic
Cynicism is a good quality for a data analyst to sport. Lately, I’m sporting it in spades. The focus of my current cynicism is an article in the Feb/Mar edition of Fundraising and Philanthropy magazine...
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Some premium attention
It seems that while I’ve been beavering away at work and neglecting my blog, there’s been a flurry of activity following Sean Triner’s response to my ‘premium cynicism’. If I am absolutely honest with...
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There’s something about Dorothy
Oh no, it’s that time again. Training of new staff. You’ve been given the brief – go explain what fundraising does. You’ve done this bazillion times before and you know how it will play out. You go in...
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