Online Training

Idealware seminars are designed to give you the tactical advice you need to make smart software decisions. You can take one of our live online seminars, which are capped at 25 participants so you'll have lots of opportunity to ask questions and get the information you need. All you need is an internet connection and a phone line to participate in these 90-minute workshops.  Or check out our library of 17 (and growing) recorded seminars ready to go, whenever you need them.

Live Training

Online Training

  • Choosing a Low Cost Constituent Database
    September 8, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

    What tools can help a small organization track volunteers, donors, partners, and other constituents? We’ll view and compare the commonly used databases.

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  • Email Fundraising: Online Deep Dive
    September 14, 3:00 pm - October 12, 4:30 pm Eastern. $275.00

    Five Tuesdays from 3:00-4:30 EST.  Over the course of this five-part series, you will design and create a full-fledged email fundraising campaign, ready to go for your year-end appeal.  Through expert-led sessions, worksheets, and review of your work by both peers and experts, we'll walk you through creating an overall strategy, writing a series of emails, defining the email and online donation tools that you'll need, and creating an approach to tracking and measuring your success.  Sound interesting to you? Please let us know so we can gauge interest in the course.

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  • Prioritizing Technology: Choosing the Right Types of Software For You
    September 15, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

     How do you decide what software investments make the most sense for your own limited resources?  Should you buy a better constituent database, or improve your website, or keep up with social media like Facebook or Twitter?  Or all of those? We'll provide a framework to help you prioritize your own technology needs.

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  • Introduction to Website Analytics
    September 22, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

    How many people visit your Web site? What are they doing there?   Through demos of AWStats and Google Analytics, we’ll look at what analytics packages can tell you about your site.

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  • Low-Cost Donor Management Systems: Online Deep Dive
    September 22, 3:00 pm - October 6, 4:30 pm Eastern. $190.00

    Five sessions, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3:00-4:30 EST.  Looking to explore the world of low-cost donor management systems?  We'll take you through a deep dive of the easier to setup options that are under $2500 in the first year (some much cheaper).  Through sessions and worksheets, we'll first help you define what's important to you in a donor management system. We'll then take in-depth look at five systems -- Giftworks, eTapestry, DonorPerfect Online, Z2 Neon, and Common Ground-- with both vendor demos and expert commentary.  Sound interesting to you?

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  • Making the Most of Social Networking Sites
    September 29, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

     How can a nonprofit make the best use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? We'll talk through how they work, what's worth doing, and how other organizations are using them.

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  • Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp
    September 30, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Eastern. $125.00

    The Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp, conducted in partnership with Third Sector New England, will be an intensive, activity-packed day to help you jumpstart your email fundraising efforts.  Whether you are new to the world of email fundraising or just need a refresher, join us to hear from experts from Idealware and other firms and get hands-on help from peers and consultants in designing your own email fundraising strategy.

     

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  • Getting Started with Mobile Outreach
    October 6, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

     It's easier that you might think to broadcast text messages to your supporters' cell phones, to ask them to respond to a quick question, or even to ask them to donate right through their phone.  We'll talk through the principles, software packages, and best practices that can help. 

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  • Getting Started with Email Fundraising
    October 12, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

     How do you design and write an email campaign that will work?  What tools can help you send emails and collect online donations?   We'll walk through what you'll need to know to design your own email fundraising campaign.

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  • Building An Effective Email List
    October 20, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern. $40.00

    How do you build a list of constituents truly interested in your cause? We’ll discuss a wide variety of techniques that can help, and how they all fit together.

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