Happy Birthday to Us

It’s been a year since we made it official: one year ago today, Idealware both officially became a nonprofit corporation and launched our Online Donation Tools report. We’ve come a long way since…. (ah, I can hear the flashback music now. Or maybe it’s montage music):

• We published the Seven Blogging Tools Compared report and another eighteen articles about nonprofit software
• More than 6000 people have registered to view the Online Donation Tools report, and 2700 have signed up for our monthly eNewsletter
• Back in Nov 2005, we getting about 100 visits a day to our website. Now it’s more like 600 visits a day.
• 63 different people have contributed their expertise, time, and/or writing skills to Idealware reports and articles
• We completed a tremendously successful webinar series, in partnership with NTEN
• We kicked off our donation campaign, and raised about $2200 in individual donations… almost entirely in $10 increments.

It’s a pretty amazing thing: last year, Idealware was pretty much me and few friends with an idea. Now it’s a community which is - hopefully - beginning to make a real difference in the software information available to nonprofits. I can’t say enough to thank all of you who have read our articles, contributed your knowledge, made a donation, told others about us, or are just out there routing for Idealware. It humbles me and touches me to be part of what Idealware has become.

Here’s to many more years to come.