I am interested in attending the upcoming Blackbaud conference in Vancouver next month for the first time. I would like to hear any input from others who have attended a conference and if it would be really beneficial for me to go.

I attended the conference in Toronto last year and a year before and it was fantastic!

I'm presenting a session in Vancouver. You'd be crazy not to attend! Peter Gulka Database Administrator NAIT Development Office Edmonton AB Canada email: [Email Removed] www.nait.ca/buildingondemand

Hi Peter, I am taking your advice and attending the conference. I did attend a conference in Charleston and really enjoyed it but found a lot of it was not Canadianized. I would like to talk to anyone attending this conference that uses Raisers Edge for Student Records, Financial etc for small colleges or schools. It will also great to talk to people who use this program as I feel isolated as the nearest user to me is 300 miles away. Thanks Joyce

Joyce, Looks like you and I are in the same market. We track all our alums as well as donors and prospects in RE. Our financial system for the entire school is handled with Peoplesoft. Peter Gulka Database Administrator NAIT Development Office Edmonton AB Canada email: [Email Removed] www.nait.ca/buildingondemand  Check out the "other" forum! http://reusers.server-planet.com

If possible I would like to talk to you about Alumni tracking. It is an area that I require someone with hands on to pick their brains. What system are you using for student records? Joyce

Our student administration and financial systems at NAIT are powered by PeopleSoft. Every couple of weeks we run a grad import program we created to extract recent grads from our data warehouse and automatically add them to Raiser's Edge. Peter Gulka Database Administrator NAIT Development Office Edmonton AB Canada email: [Email Removed] www.nait.ca/buildingondemand  Check out the "other" forum! http://reusers.server-planet.com