TDB Stories & Updates

Redundancy and decoupling

Last week in the mid-morning, in a darkened office, thedatabank staff were standing around wondering what to do. The building’s power had gone out a half hour earlier, and the building manager didn’t know why or when it would be restored. Should we wait in the office or go home? Semaphores were dead in the… Read more

thedatabank at the forefront of building a new sustainable economy

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to give testimony at a Minnesota State Senate Committee hearing on legislation that would create a new type of for-profit corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation. As one of 3 Certified B-Corporations in Minnesota, authors of this bill turned to thedatabank as an example of a small business… Read more

A “March” through the last four years of Karen’s blog

Before thedatabank launched the Technology for Change blog and I become a regular author, I wrote a monthly column for our enews called Karen’s Blog. It’s fun to look back over the past few years and see what I was writing about! March 2011 | Technophobia I shared a picture of myself taking the new… Read more

Meet the new website – and some lessons on website redesign

This week thedatabank launched an updated web site. Here are some key changes: A Learn section with white papers, guest articles, recorded webinars, and other resources for nonprofit organizations. A Connect section with many ways to engage, from social media to “in real life” events. The design has been streamlined to be easier to read… Read more

Looking back: Top ten from 2011

thedatabank has combed through our past issues of the enews and our blog to bring you the most popular webinars and blog posts we’ve published in 2011. 1. Don’t Neglect Your Direct Mail Strategy by Joel Barker of Backpack Tactics – Direct mail campaigns are still an important part of a comprehensive fundraising development strategy. In… Read more