I recently got back from a trip out to Tucson to visit family and as I was talking with my brother about what I do for a living, he said, "Huh...organizations hire you to fix their system problems but you actually give them management and re-organization consulting along with the systems help."  (BTW, my brother, is a programmer.)
 

Yes....it's been months now since I've blogged and even though I have spent many months trying to excite and incite my nonprofit clients to blog, twitter and facebook with abandon, I have not taken my own advice lately so I'm writing now to tell you that I am making my first New Year's resolution to get back in the game.
 

Alot of my work involves going into the fundraising department of a nonprofit and assessing and investigating why the Development staff cannot get the information they need to fundraise more effectively. Many times I am brought in to assess the "database" or "software product" and most times, the problem is not in the software but in the "peopleware" of an organization. In fact, I would say that 9 times out of 10, when the organization thinks it's a software problem it's a people problem.

This past Friday, June 12th, The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Fund Raising Day in New York (FRDNY) with keynote speaker Peter G. Peterson.  As one the Program Co-Vice Chairs (along with my fellow chairs Nancy Carmichael & Amy Leveen), I am proud to say that our track chairs worked like fiends to put on a fabulous program despite an incredibly tough year for fundraising, conferences, clients, consultants and vendors alike.

Let me preface this mini-review by saying that I have been a loyal Palm & Sprint user for the past 10-15 years or so, however, I also own a 32GB iPod Touch, an iMac and a Macbook so I am an equal opportunity technology enthusiast.

It's now been a little over a week with my new Palm Pre and for the most part I like it very much and even found myself trying to use their hand gestures on my iPod Touch the other night.  Mind you, I also tried to use iPod gestures on my Palm Centro when I first got it so there is always a period of adjustment.