Quick Studies for Independent Schools-Short Course on Data Hygiene: Best Practices and Easy Wins

Short Course on Data Hygiene: Best Practices and Easy Wins

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In this video, Vidya Kagan presents a short course on data hygiene, best practices, and easy wins. Vidya is the director of Development Services at Menlo School and has over 20 years of experience in fundraising and data management. She emphasizes the importance of clean and accurate data in making informed decisions and improving engagement and communication with constituents. Vidya shares five best practices, including creating data entry standards, eliminating duplicate records, using mass updates and automation, creating a calendar for data entry, and making data hygiene a regular part of work. She concludes by highlighting the benefits of data hygiene, such as improved data quality and saving time and money.

Keywords

data hygiene

best practices

clean and accurate data

engagement and communication

data quality