Of Wedding Registries and Award Management Administration

Kody Jackson

If I’ve learned anything over the past 28 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 choose gifts, but you’re also not going to end up with that set of old golf clubs that’ve been rusting in Uncle Dave’s basement. Registries are an exercise in limited responsibility.

The same applies to administering Blackbaud Award Management. You want your opportunity administrators to take ownership of their applications and reviewer groups … but not to accidentally send out an email to all students in your system. Or for reviewers to see applications before they’re ready. Or for students to know that they’re a Finalist for an award.

That’s the idea behind our System Administration course. This course explores how you can use scopes, roles, and categories to delegate system responsibilities—responsibly. Done right, these settings can save you countless hours of additional work and countless headaches from those “accidents.”

So, if you're ready to say goodbye to painstakingly managing every aspect of your system, check out Blackbaud Award Management: System Administration today. Go ahead, say I do to this course ... and I promise not to send you the absolutely perfect gift I found in my garage last weekend!