Description: Randy and Leo will discuss MPower’s new open source business model and its benefits for technology, relationships, and ultimately for your organization. It will be an exciting time to get together and talk about how the changes at MPower are shaping the future of how organizations increase fundraising, marketing, and overall communications between nonprofits and their constituents.
Speaker: Randy McCabe, Chief Executive Officer, MPower; Leo D’Angelo, Chief Technology Officer, MPower
"My Life in an Open World." - Keith Bright IBM
Description: Open Source has become the buzz word of nonprofits this year. What does it mean for you? There are so many reasons that nonprofits should take advantage of open source software. Keith Bright runs the Linux Technology Center for IBM and as such has led open source projects with the US Navy and the Swedish Stock Exchange, among many others. During this lunch discussion, Keith will discuss why open source is the future of software for non-profits and provide tangible examples of how Open Source is helping many of the largest commercial enterprises in the world.
Speaker: Keith Bright, Linux Technology Center Director, IBM
MPower: Taking Advantage of Open Source Software
Description: What does all this Open talk mean for my organization? This class will facilitate a discussion geared toward MPower customers to demonstrate how the MPower Open product line addresses many of the challenges currently facing non-profit customers. The emphasis will be on how customers are getting the most out of MPower software.
Speakers: Brian Roberts, Vice President Services, MPower; Nathan Harden, Product Analyst, MPower
The Next Generation -
Software as a Service (SaaS) and the New Reporting Wizard
Description: Come see a demonstration of the next generation of MPower Software. A web based fully customizable solution that will make your head spin! Leo will also demonstrate a new reporting wizard that will be integrated with MPower. This web-based reporting tool will replace the current Crystal reporting software and help take your organization to a new level of information.
Speakers: Leo D’Angelo, Chief Technology Officer, MPower; Erik Weibust, Senior Architect, MPower, Ryan Smith, UI Developer, MPower
MPower: Product Governance for Open Source
Description: How does open source and community collaboration work? How do you get your functionality requests into MPower or determine if someone has already created them using open source? MPower provides strong product governance for all open source contributions including a rigorous quality assurance process. Come to this class to find out the process for getting your organization’s needs into MPower and for taking advantage of the contributions already there.
Speakers: Leo D’Angelo, Chief Technology Officer, MPower; Jennifer Stephenson, Quality Assurance Manager, MPower
MPower: Integrating with MPower Open
Description: The integrations created for MPower are what make it the most extensible donor management software solution on the market. Join Paul, Leo, and MPower client developers as they discuss current integrations that are available, future planned integrations, and how the Open Source community will allow MPower to bring the best and fastest integrations to the market, specifically developed to meet multiple client needs.
Speakers: Leo D’Angelo, Chief Technology Officer, MPower; Paul Dorsey, Senior Developer, MPower; MPower Clients
The First Open Source Community Contributions to MPower Open
Description: Come join some of our current MPower clients as they demonstrate their contributions to the open source community. This will be an interactive class led by some of our leading edge clients as they show how their organizations have taken advantage of MPower’s new open source business model – and how you can too.
Speaker: Brian Roberts, John Coleman, Dave Novick, Tom G
Multi-Channel Fundraising Success - Max Bunch
Description: Internet? Blogs? What happened to Direct Mail, or a phone call or even a face to face conversation? Come to this session to find out how to get the most out of all these opportunities to communicate with your current and potential donors. Max Bunch will lead this discussion on how to decipher the most appropriate and effective medium, message, and preference to convey key messages to specific types of audiences.
Speakers: Max Bunch, President, Stratmark
ROI vs Net Income: The Fundraiser's Conumndrum
Description: It is important because competition for charitable giving will continue to increase, it costs money to raise money, and leadership often doesn’t understand the true implications of decisions to limit acquisition investment, or require an overall ROI limitation for fundraising. This session will help you understand the important differences between ROI and Net Income when making donor program investment decisions.
Speaker: Tom McCabe, Chairman and CEO, KMA Direct Communications
