If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a big fan of Flickr.com – a photo-sharing website. I have pro accounts for myself, Lambda Chi Alpha, and CFEA; and I also set up a Third Goal section to pool Peace Corps photos. When it comes to managing and sharing photos, there is nothing better …
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Mutant Frogs
The bullfrogs in my pond are getting so big and so populous that I’m becoming afraid of them. The zoom on my new camera is only 3x, so I tried taking a few photos through my binoculars. It worked okay.
Casio EX-S500 Exilim
Today, my Casio EX-S500 Exilim digital camera arrived. Smaller in size than a deck of cards, this gadget takes 5.0 mega pixel photos, records MPEG-4 movies, and has a typical 3x optical zoom. Though I’m always excited to have a new gadget, I wonder how much I’m going to use it for my affinity for …
iMIS Goes Live
Yesterday, at 6:10 p.m., JB informs me that our core membership data conversion is complete. iMIS is live. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done, for we migrated just our 250,000 member records – containing basic name, address, and chapter information. We still have to migrate their donor history and …
Raiser’s Edge Read-Only
At 3:00 p.m. today, Lambda Chi Alpha’s 10-year old membership management software was switched to read-only. No longer will our staff use Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge to update our membership database. Starting next week, they will begin using iMIS by Advanced Solutions International. This is a big change for Lambda Chi Alpha. The transition is occurring …