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Paul Messino is the president of Business Technology Insight, LLC, an IT support company focused on helping organizations grown through building better relationships with technology. Here, he shares his expertise on using Sage ACT! Pro, which is available for donation to eligible organizations through TechSoup.

Picture the scene…our heroes with pain coursing through
their bodies and sweat dripping down their brows as they head toward the finish
line. The setting is a sunny, dry desert with the pyramids of Giza looming in
the background. 
Sound like the scene from an action movie or the Amazing Race?

Did you know that text messages are reported to have an open
rate of over 90 percent according to a number of reputable marketing studies? And did
you catch the Pew Research Center’s latest findings, announced this week, revealing
that a third of text, or short message service (SMS), users prefer to be
reached via SMS?

Sasha Daucus is the warm presence welcoming new community members to the TechSoup forums in our Introduce Yourself forum and one-half of the dynamic duo fielding questions about fundraising software, CRMs, and donor databases in our Technology for Fundraising forum. TechSoup caught up with the longtime forum volunteer to find out a little more about the expert behind the helpful posts.

Interested in learning about the recent updates to the Microsoft Software Donation Program? Take a look at our Microsoft Donation Program: Short Tutorials page. This page includes five extremely short videos (around 3 to 5 minutes each) covering key information regarding the Microsoft Software Donation Program.

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is coming to
TechSoup’s hometown of San Francisco in April and we couldn’t be more excited!
The Nonprofit Technology Conference (12NTC), organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), brings
together nonprofit leaders from far and wide to learn about the latest in
technology that can benefit their organizations and the communities those
organizations serve.