Whitepapers

Most new advances in technology simply improve upon technology that is already there. High-definition TV on a large plasma flat screen brings about greater resolution and a fuller viewer experience than an older black and white version, but it’s still a TV. The newest version of the laptop computer is sure to be smaller, faster, […]

Organizations that evaluate online success by looking at online revenue exclusively are likely to conclude that their online efforts are more and more successful over the next several years. The Harvard Initiative on Social Enterprise estimates that up to 30% of all donations will be raised online by the Year 2010. Therefore, it is likely […]

The growth of the Internet has added many lanes to the information super-highway, and this has increasingly resulted in information overload. Each day our email boxes are flooded, and there are more websites, more articles, and more weblogs updated more frequently than ever before. Indeed, it can be a full time job just to sort […]

The Opportunity
Today, it is clear that the rapid deployment and adoption of the Internet as a communication tool is as groundbreaking as the invention of the printing press almost 500 years ago. Text, images, audio, and video - all converted into a binary code of ones and zeroes - are being transmitted around the world […]

This is the second in a two-part series on Constituent Relationship Management (CRM). You can read the first part in our Technology Is Not A Silver Bullet white paper.
Convergence of CRM and Web Technologies
The need to efficiently and effectively communicate with thousands of constituents is a need that has been around for a long time, […]

The first in a two-part series on Constituent Relationship Management (CRM). You can read the second part Integrating CRM and the Web.
A good friend of my family, who is now in his late 70’s, suffered from the tragic loss of his wife to cancer over ten years ago. After grieving for several years, he decided […]

I was speaking with a representative from a ministry that is in the middle of an initiative to connect with new individuals who have an affinity with the ministry and have the potential to become major donors for the organization. Several gentlemen in their 50’s and 60’s asked for the website URL as a first […]

(NOTE: With the embracing of some of these principles and advancement in technologies since this article was written, Silas Partners has a refined version of this presentation it uses today called the 8 Principles of Effective Online Communication … but we believe you will still find much of this information relevant and applicable to your […]

The World is Flat
In his bestseller, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman references a 1989 essay by economic historian Paul David entitled “Computer and Dynamo: The Modern Productivity Paradox in a Not-Too-Distant Mirror.” At the time, pundits were puzzled because computers had been introduced into the office environment several years before in the early 1980’s, […]

The home run. It is perhaps the most American of sports terms. You don’t even need to follow sports or baseball to know that the home run is the pinnacle of hitting. Hitting a baseball is considered the most difficult thing to do in sports as a 95 mile-per-hour pitch darts in-and-out and can reach […]