Join us today, April 28, at 12:00 p.m. ET for our Product Update Briefing: Blackbaud NetCommunity , which is sure to get you excited about new features and capabilities like recent innovations for donations, payments, event management, email sign-up and more! To help you accelerate the knowledge from this product update briefing, join us for a Product Adoption Session to help you hit the gas pedal. more

UPDATE 5/28/2020 : Visa has announced that they will be transitioning the Visa Checkout button in Blackbaud Checkout to the EMV Secure Remote Commerce experience on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 6:00PM PDT. No action is needed on your part to receive this update. Once this change has been made, Blackbaud Checkout users will enjoy the benefits detailed in ... more

What has changed? In NetCommunity 7.2 Service Pack 1, Blackbaud made changes to improve the usability and security of Blackbaud Checkout. You can learn more about new features in our releases here or learn more about Blackbaud Checkout here .   What does this mean? As of NetCommunity 7.2 Service Pack 1, all NetCommunity page parts that accept a payment ... more

Google have made an update to cross-site cookie standards as part of an ongoing effort to improve data privacy and security (see Chromium blog ). The new standards go live with Chrome 80 on February 4, 2020.  What’s changing on February 4th is that cross-site (a.k.a. third-party) cookies must explicitly declare themselves as cross-site and use HTTPS ... more

Important Update on Digital Wallets in Blackbaud Checkout As we recently announced, Visa and MasterCard are joining forces to provide a one-click digital wallet solution that adheres to EMVCo’s new standard for EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) . That solution will combine Masterpass and Visa Checkout—two of our three digital wallet options ... more

Thank you for joining Blackbaud NetCommunity’s Product Management and Product Marketing Teams on Tuesday, November 19th at 2 p.m. EST as we reviewed the product roadmap. If you weren't able to join us, you can check out a recording of the webinar  at this link . We've also uploaded a PDF version of the slides for you to review at your convenience. more

Adobe have advised that Flash will no longer be supported or updated by the end of 2020. Please refer to Adobe's official announcement at Flash & The Future of Interactive Content Blog , which contains further information and links to posts from all browser vendors. As of the 7.2 Service Pack 1 release scheduled for Q1 2020, Blackbaud NetCommunity will ... more

What is happening? LinkedIn has new mandatory login requirements. In December 2018, LinkedIn  announced  that it would be making changes to its Sign In APIs that included shutting off their V1 APIs and disabling the use of OAuth1. These changes impact any NetCommunity customer who enabled single sign-on using LinkedIn in their Janrain dashboard. ... more

Service Pack 5 released in March 2019 saw the Donation Form – Mini (Beta) renamed Donation 2.0 . The Donation 2.0 part is a new Blackbaud NetCommunity donation form that provides a simplified checkout experience for campaign-based donations. The form has a modern, responsive HTML design that automatically adjusts to the device size, such as a smart ... more

Thank you for joining Blackbaud NetCommunity’s Product Management and Product Marketing Teams on Tuesday, April 9th at 2 p.m. EST as we reviewed the product roadmap. If you weren't able to join us, you can check out a recording of the webinar at this link . We've also uploaded a PDF version of the slides for you to review at your convenience. We'll see you ... more

We are pleased to announce that NetCommunity 7.1 Service Pack 5 is now available. Key Highlights from the latest release of NetCommunity include: Dontion 2.0 enhancements As of this release, the Donation Form - Mini (Beta) has been renamed and is now called Donation 2.0. We have added the ability to accept Recurring gifts using Donation 2.0. The part ... more

Good news and bad news can be drawn from email performance on Giving Tuesday. I asked our email team for their “top trends” on Giving Tuesday -- to help you prepare for what you might find this end-of-year fundraising period and beyond. Blacklist Providers Are Cracking Down. Even More. Low-priority blacklist providers have gotten more aggressive ... more

The time is here! We celebrated Thanksgiving over a week ago, holiday tunes are on the radio, you raised a record $62.6 million on #GivingTuesday , and right now, you’re entering the biggest giving month of the year! According to Blackbaud’s 2017 Charitable Giving Report, non-profits received 20% of their online gifts during the month of December. ... more

 We are pleased to announce that NetCommunity 7.1 Service Pack 4 is now available. Key highlights include - Enhancements to the Mini Donation Form - Organizations can now optionally configure biographical fields, constituent attributes and gift attributes to display on the Donation Form - Mini part to capture personal information about donors. ... more

Thank you for joining us on Wednesday, October 17th for the Blackbaud NetCommunity Product Roadmap webinar. If you were unable to join us for the live webinar, you'll find a recording of the presentation at this link . A PDF of the slides is available as an attachment below. more

We've lots of great content coming your way at bbcon 2018 on October 9-11th in Orlando, FL!  With hundreds of breakout sessions, attendees will have plenty of options to choose from and we want to share useful tools to help navigate the conference and get the most out of your experience. You can find a comprehensive and searchable list of breakout ... more

Discover the New Blackbaud NetCommunity Training Curriculum! Tuesday, August 28 at 2:00 p.m. ET Keeping in step with the ever-changing technology of the Internet and the exciting new Blackbaud NetCommunity features and options, Blackbaud University proudly presents our new Blackbaud NetCommunity training curriculum.  We started from scratch ... more

As mentioned during our last NetCommunity Roadmap Webinar in April, one of the enhancements planned for an upcoming release is revisiting how additional donations made in conjunction with an Event Registration using the Event Registration form are processed in the plugin. During discovery, you told us that the fact that these transactions result ... more

In April, we released Blackbaud NetCommunity 7.1 Service Pack 3, which included enhanced functionality to help you manage and capture your supporters’ communication consent. We recently identified an issue that impacts consent collected through NetCommunity forms. Customers affected by this issue have already been notified. Additional ... more

Thank you to the more than 300 of you that were able to join us for the first Blackbaud NetCommunity Roadmap Webinar of 2018. If you weren't able to attend the live webinar, you can view a recording of the presentation at this link . A PDF version of the slides covered during the presentation are available as an attachment to this post.  more

We are pleased to announce the release of NetCommunity 7.1 SP3.   A key highlight is  Enhanced Communication Consent –  As the nonprofit world prepares for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to go into effect in May of this year, Blackbaud has been consulting with a wider range of data protection and privacy authorities, customers, and legal ... more

If I’ve learned anything over the past 27 years, it’s this: no one wants my creative wedding gifts . It doesn’t matter how much time or effort I’ve put into that friendship collage or choreographed dance solo … my time would have been better spent buying a set of knives. That’s the whole point of having a registry, right? Sure, you’re letting people pick and ... more

In an effort to make our systems easier to use and understand, we want to learn what words you use to describe system concepts. Your feedback will help us determine terminology for labels in future products. Please take a few moments to  share your thoughts in this brief survey (two questions!)  to help us better understand the terms your organization ... more

Growing up, I never much cared for that classic rock song Don’t Stop Believing . It’s not like I have something against small-town boys, wailing guitar solos, or even the rock band Journey … it’s just that I was a twin. When you have an identical brother, everything gets split right down the middle. Sandwiches, rooms, and, yes, even classic 80s rock ... more

We are pleased to announce the release of NetCommunity 7.1 SP2.  Key highlights include –  Mini Donation Form enhancements - We've added several enhancements to the Donation Form - Mini (Beta) part that was introduced in our last release. You now have the ability to include options on the form so users can indicate that donations are anonymous gifts or ... more