Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/15/2014
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Location
Crittendon Women's Union, Seccomb Room, 3rd Floor
Choosing by Doing: Selecting a Fundraising Platform Aug 15th: We hope that you will join us on August 15th, when our featured speaker will be Mike Sachleben, the chief technology officer of the National Brain Tumor Society. Here’s what Mike says about this TNB Roundtable session: The National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) has put their entire business on Blackbaud’s Convio suite. They use Convio for everything from online fundraising to content management to constituent management. While Convio is a good product that does what it does well enough, NBTS became dissatisfied with some of Convio’s quirks as well as its pricing structure. NBTS started wondering if there was another product (or set of products) out there which would fit better than Convio at a more reasonable price. In 2014 NBTS embarked on a journey of “learning by doing”. Rather than sending out an RFP, doing demos, picking a single product, and hoping for the best during an extensive implementation process, NBTS went the other way. The technical team chose three online fundraising platforms to supplement Convio and actually implemented them in production at the same time with live users on each system to determine which platform (if any) could serve as a successor to Convio.
In this TNB Roundtable session, NBTS will lead an open and frank discussion of what led them to the decision to implement three different platforms in 2014 and what benefits they thought they would get from doing so. We will cover what the demo and product choice process looked like, how well the implementation phase went for each product and what NBTS learned about themselves and their constituents during the process. We will also talk about what platform NBTS decided to use for 2015 (and beyond) and why they made that choice. Register for the event here.
