Welcome to the Blackbaud Community Collaborators Club discussion thread!

Janis Worley

Great job everyone! Congrats!

Elizabeth Perron

We had so many people that completed August 15th-31st challenge with 2 of the 3 tasks, however, no one completed the entire challenge.

No worries, it was a lot!

This is your community! This months challenge is to provide feedback to our staff bloggers to help them understand what is useful and what you would like to them to add to their blogs to make it them more useful via a blog comment.

September Collaboration Challenge: Give three blog comments from September 1-30th.

Here are some comments you can copy or paste or expand on them to make this challenge hopefully easier for you!

• Love the screenshots, so useful!
• Would you please include screenshots next time?
• The links to the resources are so helpful, thanks!
• Would you please include a link to a helpful resource for X in your blog?
• Thank you for encouraging us to share best practices connected to the topics in your blog!
• One thing I do connected to (list the blog topic) is ……….
• Are there any webinars or events that are coming soon for this topic?

Please reply to this post with other blog comment phrases for others to use.

Collaborator Club Members let's unite to mold blogs to enhance their usefulness!

In harmony,

Elizabeth

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”
– Frank A. Clark (1800's politician)

Janis Worley

@Elizabeth Perron Thanks for the reply options - that's great encouragement for us to be more vocal!

Courtney Stern

@Elizabeth Perron Hello! Will there be an October challenge?

Elizabeth Perron

@Courtney Stern YES!! I will have it posted today or tomorrow! Can't wait for you to join us!!

Elizabeth Perron

@Janis Worley
So glad they were helpful!!

Elizabeth Perron

Hi Blackbaud Collaborator Club Members,

First, your contributions to the community are so appreciated! Secondly, I apologize for the late announcement. October's challenge: give 10 emojis by October 31st

Congratulations to our members who completed September's challenge!

@Courtney Stern Earned her Collaborator Badge!

100 points: @Rose Mary Herbert

400 points: @Rachel Cavalier @Jennifer Vincent

600 points: @Bryna Gleich @Dan Snyder @Elizabeth Johnson @Stacy Evans

800 points: @Barbara Kunkel @Tara Cain

Special shout out to @Ray Bergman and @Crystal Bruce for completing the challenge every month with us??!

Bonus Collaborator Member Challenge for 500 points! Post a social media link on your profile. (Yours or your organization)

PS. My family and I are dealing with a virus. Hope all stay well during the change in the seasons.

Janis Worley

Congrats everyone! ?

Dawn Alonso

Congrats to all! ?

Hallie Guiseppe

@Elizabeth Perron silly question…where exactly to I locate the list of my previous bookmarks?

Faith Murray

@Hallie Guiseppe

If it's a silly question, I've been guilty too! Can't remember who reminded me, but you go to your Account Profile and it's right under your profile picture.

Elizabeth Perron

Hello Blackbaud Community Collaborators Club!?

Congratulations to those who completed October's challenge:

200 points: @Rachel Cavalier @Karen Tuecke @Lauren Marcus Eisenberg

400 points: @Barbara Kunkel @Dawn Alonso @Faith Murray @Kim McAmis @Tara Cain @Vicky Lopuchowycz @JoAnn Strommen

600 points: @Dan Snyder @Jennifer Vincent @Karen Diener @Michael Mike Jensen

800 points: @Tina Pappas @Courtney Stern @amy barker

1000 points: @Austen Brown

500 bonus points to the following collaborators for adding a social media link to your profile!

@Dariel Dixon @Dawn Alonso @Dan Snyder @Austen Brown @Rachel Cavalier @Rose Mary Herbert @Jennifer Vincent @Janis Worley

November's Challenge: Complete one or more of the following:

• Click on another collaborators profile to see if there is bookmarked content you want to add to your profile.
• Edit your bookmarks by removing any that are outdated.
• If your bookmarks are perfect just they way they are, like this post!
  

Rose Mary Herbert

@Elizabeth Perron Another silly question…how do I remove a bookmark that the thread is now archived? Not seeing it!

Elizabeth Perron

@Rose Mary Herbert
That is a great question!! I will put a case in with Personify to find out the answer and get back to you.

Elizabeth Perron

@Hallie Guiseppe Not a silly question:) Thank you @Faith Murray for the answer. Happy bookmarking reviewing!

Elizabeth Perron

BONUS 500points Alert!!

Hello Collaborators Club! Yesterday, you may have seen the announcement in the Buzz that our badges now have a new look! To celebrate the new badge design, there is a bonus challenge until the end of this month. Any Collaborator Club member who answers the poll on the badge glossary will receive an extra 500 points!

Faith Murray

@Elizabeth Perron, quick question on the survey! I have five Level 5 badges, and so I had the choice of two possible answers (#2 and #3). Is this intentional? I confess to a psychological “self-boosting” response, as I picked answer #3. ?

Crystal Bruce

@Faith Murray:

@Elizabeth Perron, quick question on the survey! I have five Level 5 badges, and so I had the choice of two possible answers (#2 and #3). Is this intentional? I confess to a psychological “self-boosting” response, as I picked answer #3. ?

@Faith Murray excellent point and I've updated the poll!

La Donna Borth

@Faith Murray I believe ‘self-boosting’ is allowed and acceptable. ?

Danielle Lifshitz

@Elizabeth Perron I added my first bookmark! Didn't even know this was an option.

Karen Tuecke

@Elizabeth Perron I have updated my bookmarks and have added a bookmark that I did not have. Anyone using eTapestry may want to check out my Bookmarks on my profile page.

Rachel Cavalier

Bookmarks have been pruned a little - although I did have two bookmarks for the same topic somehow and another that when I went to the post to unbookmark, didn't seem to be bookmarked in the first place. ?

Elizabeth Perron

@Rachel Cavalier our vendors are working on the bookmark glitches. There have been issues since we moved to the modern platform a couple of years ago. I will keep asking for an update.

@Karen Tuecke thanks for inviting others to see your bookmark library!

@Danielle Lifshitz Congrats on your first bookmark? Let shared knowledge bloom!!

Elizabeth Perron

We had so many people complete November's Collaborator's Challenge! I am giving out points and will announce everyone who participated tomorrow.

So grateful for our collaborators!!!

Elizabeth Perron

Congratulations to our Blackbaud Community Collaborator club members who completed this month's challenge! Please see the original post for December's Challenge. Also, please answer the poll on the right of this page, so I know you want to stay a part of the Collaborators' Club.

@Adriana Reyes @Danielle Lifshitz @Edwin Blackwood and @Hallie Guiseppe Earned the Collaborator Badge and have joined our club! Please connect with them!

1000 points: @Austen Brown @Faith Murray @Kim McAmis @Tina Pappas

800 points: @Dan Snyder @Lauren Marcus Eisenberg @Coco Parham @Jamie Cross @Shelley Hindmon @Susan Ott @Tara Cain

600 points: @Jennifer Vincent @Rachel Cavalier @Jennifer Kluh @Dariel Dixon @Elizabeth Johnson @Karintha Marshall @Lauren Henderson @Nicole Holt

400 points: @Barbara Kunkel @Dawn Alonso @Karen Tuecke @Marie Stark @Scott Chrysler @Vicky Lopuchowycz @Keith Wilson

200 points: @Mary Zieten @Rose Mary Herbert @Carrie Powell @Irene Hui

Congratulations to our Collaborator Club Members for completing the November Bonus Challenge for 500 points! @Austen Brown @Faith Murray @Kim McAmis @Tina Pappas @Dan Snyder @Lauren Marcus Eisenberg @Jennifer Vincent @Rachel Cavalier @Barbara Kunkel @Dawn Alonso @Karen Tuecke @Marie Stark @Scott Chrysler @Vicky Lopuchowycz @Mary Zieten @Rose Mary Herbert @Carrie Powell @Irene Hui @Bobby Steurer @Brian Gray @Carlene Johnson @Courtney Stern @Heather MacKenzie @Janis Worley @JoAnn Strommen @Joanne Felci @Judy Ramos @Kirsten Petersen @Meghan Christiansen @Michael Mike Jensen @Sunshine Reinken Watson @Tami Goertzen @Keith Wilson

I appreciate our collaborators' club!!

All the best,

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Perron

My Collaborator Club Members,

I hope the beginning of your year has been wonderful!

Without further ado, @Elizabeth Favre and @La Donna Borth earned their Collaborator Club badges! Welcome to the Collaborators Club!

100 points: @Jennifer Vincent @Joanne Felci

200 points: @Carlene Johnson @Tami Goertzen

400 points: @Jana Fross @Lauren Henderson @Rachel Cavalier @Vicky Lopuchowycz

600 points: @Bobby Steurer @Karen Tuecke @Marie Stark

800 points: @Barbara Kunkel @Dan Snyder @Dariel Dixon @Faith Murray @JoAnn Strommen

1000 points: @Austen Brown @Elizabeth Johnson

January's challenge is to answer the two polls on the right.

Here's some info connected to the second poll:

Take the New Member Journey: Tour your profile to learn about bookmarks
Ninja profiles
Home page search
Communities
Forum sorting

All the best,

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Perron

We are excited to announce an evolution of the club for 2023.

The Collaborator Club monthly challenges have been so successful since starting in June, 2020 they will now be community-wide. They will be announced in The Buzz each month and there will be a special badge for completing the monthly challenge.

Because collaboration is at the core of our club, another 2023 evolution for the Collaborators' Club is for Collaborators to reply to three or more questions a month. The great news is most of you (Collaborators) already answer way more than three questions a month! Thank you?! Completing the Community Challenge, answering 3+ questions and having your profile filled out allows you to earn bonus points based on your total monthly actions, such as posting or responding to discussions, commenting on blog posts, liking posts and blogs, sending friend requests, etc.. The more actions you take, the more bonus points you’ll earn! in order to receive points for your actions taken that month.

Here are the Collaborator Club points given for number of actions:

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. Here are some tips to get you started as you look for questions to lend your expertise to:

• If you know of a resource that would help in a discussion post, please link it! This can be from your own personal bookmarks, a Community or sgEngage blog, an eBook or tip sheet from Blackbaud’s resource center, or more.
• If you think the question posed is a feature request or know of an idea bank suggestion about the feature, please link to it in your reply!
• Filter by “no response” to focus on questions that could most use your expertise.
  

I will post January's Collaborator Points later today.

Please let me know how else you would like to see the Collaborator Club evolve.

In Collaboration and Harmony,

Elizabeth, Ray and Crystal

Elizabeth Perron

Congratulations Collaborators!

Here are January's Point Earners:

200 points: @Tami Goertzen @Keith Wilson @Karen Tuecke @Jennifer Vincent @Jana Fross @Heather MacKenzie @Carrie Powell @Brian Gray

400 points: @Carlene Johnson @Elizabeth Favre @Lauren Henderson @Marie Stark @Rachel Cavalier @Scott Chrysler @Vicky Lopuchowycz

600 points: @La Donna Borth @JoAnn Strommen @Barbara Kunkel

800 points: @Dan Snyder @Dariel Dixon @Elizabeth Johnson

1000 points: @Tina Pappas @Austen Brown

I appreciate all you do for the community!

Elizabeth Perron

Congratulations Collaborators for completing February's Social Media Challenge. Here are your extra points as a thank you for all you do in community!

1000: Dan Snyder, JoAnn Strommen, Elizabeth Johnson, Austen Brown

800: Jennifer Kluh

600: Brian Gray, Dariel Dixon, Marie Stark, Liz Hackett

400: Kim McAmis, Rachel Cavalier, Scott Chrysler, Suzan Swartzentrover, Tami Goertzen, Lauren Henderson, Jane Van Ingen, Whitney Shelton, Vicky Lopuchowycz, Barbara Kunkel, Miki Martin

200: Cany Beckwith, Nate Laning, Elizabeth Grover, Ray Borkman, Aldera Chisholm, Mary Zieten, Angela Tuttle, Dawn Alonso, Keith Wilson, Karen Tuecke,

Whitney Shelton

@Elizabeth Perron
Is there a March challenge?