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Nov 13, 2021

Thankful for Mary

In this five-part series, I wanted to give you a brief introduction to each of the people who make Analytical Ones great: Its employees. I so appreciate their hard work and dedication to all our clients. Quite simply, without them there would be no Analytical Ones.

Mary Hart, Senior Consultant – Director of Data Services

Mary is a rock. There is only one way with Mary – the right way.

Mary has been turning data into insights since 2000. Her diversified experience with all things data is a true asset to Analytical Ones. Her experience includes more than 15-years working with the ins-and-outs of nonprofit data.

At Analytical Ones, Mary is our gatekeeper of good data. Not a byte of data makes it to any of our analysts’ desks or for production scoring unless Mary has reviewed, scrubbed and validated it. We all know the saying, “garbage in/garbage out.” Well, Mary makes sure the garbage data never makes it in.

But what I appreciate most about Mary is her can-do attitude and her conscientiousness to make sure the job is done right, every single time.

Thank you, Mary, for all you do for Analytical Ones, and our clients.

Echoes of the Dot-Com Bust

I asked the AI Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot to tell me about the dot.com bust of 25 years ago. If you are old enough to remember, the dot.com bust came right off the heels of the Y2K computer fears, the September 11 terrorist attacks and anthrax in snail-mail...

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Micro-Sustainers to Lapsed Donors

Each fall, we here at Analytical Ones survey the trends in fundraising and come up with testing ideas for your fall campaigns. Last year, we recommended testing first class postage, to avoid the USPS’s SOP of delivering all nonprofit postage appeals on the same day....

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Part VII: How Analytical Ones Will be Using AI

Over the past couple of weeks, I have written about some potential effects that AI will have on the nonprofit sector. Today, I’m going to end this series on how we as a company intend to use AI. There’s no doubt there is a certain “wow-factor” using AI. It’s like Star...

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