Backing up information
Howard Lake | 26 November 2009 | Blogs
All the information that prospect researcher and fundraisers process needs looking after, as does everyone else’s. Some charities are huge organisations – major employers, reliant to a considerable degree on that information. Information is also important to smaller charities, and to freelancers like me.
I was intrigued by a recent article in Information Age (http://digbig.com/5bargq) on the recent experiences of the MS Society and backing up information. Put simply (I struggle to understand the detail of many Information Age articles), during an IT maintenance operation, the network was turned off. When the system was restarted, rather a lot of data was lost. When MS implemented their data backup process, they realised some major shortcomings in the system that they relied on. To cut a long story short, they reviewed their backup system, implementing one that would work more efficiently, and saved themselves shedloads of money.
How many of us have backup systems that work efficiently, I wonder. Gulp!
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.