JB and I attended the NiUG conference in Bethesda, Maryland earlier this week. NiUG is a users group for iMIS, the CMS and CRM tool Lambda Chi Alpha recently adopted. Conference Photo Pool more photos from conference The conference was great. JB had the chance to meet other iMIS developers and learn some of their …
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Obituary: Edge, Raiser’s age 10
Edge, Raiser’s August 23, 2005 Raiser’s Edge, age 10, Indianapolis, passed away August 22, 2005 at Lambda Chi Alpha’s headquarters. Raiser’s Edge was born and first installed August 29, 1995 in Indianapolis to the late VAX network. Never married, survivors include one offspring, iMIS of Indianapolis (born August 1, 2005); three servers, Cole, Lightner, and …
Staff Begins Using iMIS
Today, our staff began using the Live version of iMIS, Lambda Chi Alpha’s new CRM. Aside from a few bugs and missed procedures, our staff and iMIS got along just fine. Three of our team members spent most of the day processing membership status changes while JB and I tackled the biggest bugs. I just …
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 …