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Tomorrow is Museum Day!
I hope all of you museums out there are participating in the national Museum Day tomorrow, September 27th! Museum day is a great way to get those people who were interested in your organization but not willing to pay admission on the chance that the experience...
Save Time by Deploying RE Integration Files
Two of the most time consuming things with any client-server application are installations and updates. If you have both Patron Edge and The Raiser's Edge, you currently have an additional step after installing an RE workstation (or updating a PE...
Create maps of your patrons using free online tools
Check out the guest post I wrote today on The User's Edge blog. I explain how to use the RE Export module and a free service called Map a List to create a Google Maps mashup. These tools are not RE-specific though; you can run Marketing Mailing queries...
Send an SMS blast to patrons using free online tools
You've used Patron Edge for a while, gotten the hang of Marketing Mailing, and are pretty good at generating lists for brochures and email blasts. But have you considered the possibility of using the system to send out an SMS blast to the mobile phones...
What do your patrons think about your PEO site?
The PEO Labs series brings you information or advice on items that are geared towards users who can take high-level concepts or sample code and run with them. Please note that many of the things discussed are not supported. That doesn't mean that...
Rounding up change (but not from under sofa cushions)
The PEO Labs series brings you information or advice on items that are geared towards users who can take high-level concepts or sample code and run with them. Please note that many of the things discussed are not supported. That doesn't mean that...
Sorting a spreadsheet by color
So I was given an internal cleanup project that had a spreadsheet of 500 items that needed to be reviewed and acted on. As I worked through the list over the course of a couple of weeks, I color-coded the items based on the next action to take (follow...
Add a favicon to your website
The PEO Labs series brings you information or advice on items that are geared towards users who can take high-level concepts or sample code and run with them. Please note that many of the things discussed are not supported. That doesn't mean that...
Using Google Analytics to get more out of PEO
The PEO Labs series brings you information or advice on items that are geared towards users who can take high-level concepts or sample code and run with them. Please note that many of the things discussed are not supported. That doesn't mean that...
Preventing Fraud, Part III (with free stuff!)
At the last Blackbaud Conference, one client shared an experience where several cashiers had defrauded her organization via a pretty clever scheme. For cash transactions, the cashier would sell a Member or Child ticket in PE but charge the patron a Full...