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The Single Most Crucial Step When Switching CRMs: Getting Your Data Right
Hey, it’s Andreas. Before founding nowtec solutions, I spent decades as a campaigner and pragmatic activist. I was directly involved in organizing high-impact movements, including leading one of Switzerland’s largest citizen movements, Campax. This experience taught me that genuine political…
Necessity becomes innovation: Why we are making nowCRM open source
In the early 2000s, I was often frustrated. I saw how the digital world was changing politics, but the non-profit sector seemed stuck in the past – trapped in slow, rigid systems. This frustration led to the founding of Campax,…
Say goodbye to campaign chaos: How the Composer Calendar revolutionizes your communication
You might know the feeling: An important campaign is about to launch, the messaging is polished, the team is motivated – but the organization is threatening to descend into chaos. Between social media posts, newsletter mailings, and internal coordination, it’s…
New Features in nowCRM 1.3
From Activist Frontlines to Digital Future: Why nowCRM 1.3 is More Than Just a Software Update I remember a time, not too long ago, when we were organizing thousands of beds for refugees in a matter of days. The energy…
How to launch your first LinkedIn connection request campaign with nowCRM
Networking on LinkedIn can be tedious. You click through profiles, send individual invitations, and lose track of everything. Especially when you’re planning a larger campaign – whether for an NGO, a movement, or a targeted advocacy campaign – you quickly…
llms.txt, your digital megaphone: How a simple text file can prepare you for the AI future
Remember the days when a good Google ranking was everything? You optimized your website, researched keywords and hoped that potential donors and supporters would land on page one. Those days are gone. Today, people no longer type their questions into…
AWS outage and data sovereignty
Monday morning before yesterday, 8:30 am. I open my laptop and some things don’t work. No Canva, no Perplexity, no Fortnite (for the son). The AWS outage has struck again. For many organizations, this means downtime. No communication with donors,…
Understanding RAG and Fine-Tuning: Two Powerful Ways to Train Large Language Models
As AI rapidly evolves, organizations everywhere are looking for the smartest ways to leverage these technologies for real-world impact. At nowtec solutions, we are not just watching this revolution, we are hands-on, exploring, testing, and deploying the latest Large Language…
nowCRM: The Smarter CRM Solution for Nonprofits
For NGOs and nonprofits, the mission is clear but the challenges are many: making the biggest impact possible with limited resources, engaging donors and members in meaningful ways, keeping complex casework efficient, and managing ever-growing mountains of data, all while…
Mastering Digital Sovereignty: Strategies for IT Control and Transparency
In a world where technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, businesses face the challenge of maintaining control, transparency, and efficiency in their digital infrastructure. At nowtec solutions, we’ve taken significant strides toward achieving digital sovereignty – a concept that emphasizes…