At last week’s Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference put on by ASAE in DC, we were excited to have the opportunity to award our booth prize of a virtual reality headset to Jennifer Williams. Jennifer is the Marketing Manager for the Water Environment Federation, a membership and advocacy organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. The Water…
CRM – The Full Scope When organizations implement a CRM, their top IT people focus on implementation and integration. Often the focus is kept on the technical aspects of the software, which is important for ultimate use, but unfortunately can lead to problems if the “big picture” is not taken into consideration. CRM is more…
Washington, DC – Altai Systems, Inc., is excited to not only be a Showcase Company (Association Management Software – AMS company) at AMSFest in DC, but we are also proud to have Altai Partner, Mike Frye, serve as a panelist at the event. Mike Frye, along with Facilitator Dave Will, and four other panelists will lead…
Today’s web users have short attention spans and want to be able to access whatever they need quickly with minimal clicks. They want to be able to register for an event, renew a membership, make a donation, etc. all through an organization’s website. But to be able to accommodate them while capturing all the necessary…
No, not a Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew novel but until now, the case of the two-minute time out – has been one of the key points considered when choosing whether or not to move an organization to CRM online. CRM online is a great platform that allows many organizations to share the same servers,…
How Organizations Can Benefit from the Right Kind of Social Media Strategy In addition to helping to drive the type of content that would be beneficial to post to their own social media outlets, nonprofits/associations should implement the following steps: 1. Listen Everywhere 2. Analyze Sentiment 3. Drive Engagement 1. Listen…
The way organizations conduct business has changed drastically over the past 30 years. From typing memos on typewriters to using multifunctional PC’s or from hand writing “While You Were Out” notes to texting executives messages on their smartphones, technology has influenced not only how organizations conduct business but also how they disseminate information to their…
Recently one of our largest clients went live. This was a massive project made possible by the partnership that we developed with the client’s team. Part of the process included transferring many, many, many records in a precise and timely manner. Altai’s Business Consultant, John Klemetsrud has written about this part of the process in today’s…
Today’s blog entry is geared a bit more towards our tech minded audience. Altai’s Business Solutions Consultant, Kevin Baker has put together an easy to follow guide to standardizing and documenting the use of JavaScript functions. There are a few suggested rules when utilizing jscripts in a CRM application – Utilize a standard prefix for…
Did you know that there are entire companies that have gone out of business because their software did not upgrade well? I remember being on design committees with the Dynamics Great Plains teams in the old days and we were looking at Realworld and SBT’s accounting software. Once you modified their accounting software you were…