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Picasa is a handy photo management tool from Google. Several of my peers like its functionality and ease-of-use. It can search the photos on your computer, edit and add effects and captions to photos. It also lets you share your pics by email or in prints. Additionally, photo albums can have restricted access or be totally public. I'm going to use it to organize prospect portraits. My co-workers are considering it for creating event albums and sharing them with guests or our organization's community. Get the download at:
Tekrati bills itself as the industry analyst reporter for the high-tech industry. Why should you care? Lists and blogs!
Their firm directory is a great place to find companies that provide analyses of a variety of tech sectors. The directory provides a brief blurb describing each company with a link to a slightly more detailed sketch. Look for the barely noticeable Analyst Firm Website at the bottom of the sketch for a direct link to a firm's home page.
http://analystfirms.tekrati.com/
Need to find out what's happening in a tech sector? Check out the analysts' blogs provided by various firms. Some are happening blogs and others are not so active. I can't promise you will find what you are looking for (some of the blogs have silly bits), but sometimes blogs are a great way to find industry issues and trends that will help with your prospect analyses.
http://analystblogs.tekrati.com/
The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) provides a helpful cadre of statistics on charitable giving, charitable organizations, volunteering, donor advised funds, supporting organizations and charitable giving vehicles. Follow the link at the bottom to NPT's page with its Philanthropy Top 5 Lists: largest private foundations, largest corporate grantmakers, largest nonprofit organizations, most popular causes Americans give to (use a grammar checker please!), most generous states, largest gifts to charity and top reasons why people give. One list, top sources of nonprofit revenue, missed five by one. How did that happen?
http://www.nptrust.org/philanthropy/philanthropy_stats.asp
Don't panic when you visit this site -- the appearance has changed radically, but for the better. The most significant impact of the change is the location of the state political contribution search. The new search function is much better and broader. You can search multiple states and years simultaneously by individual's name (I usually search first on just the last name so I can find both prospect and spouse in one fell swoop), and you can search for your prospect as a contributor, candidate and committee member in the same search. Pretty neat, huh?
http://www.followthemoney.org/database/advancedsearch.phtml
Chris Mildner
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