Dan W. is the most tech-savvy board member of a small non-profit charity organization in Toronto, Canada. Dan brought blist into the organization to help plan events, collaborate and organize all the lists: volunteers, donations, etc. that non-profits live and breathe every day.

Dan’s organization already had a hosted Microsoft Sharepoint site that they intended to use for collaboration, but he can’t seem to convince people to use it because it doesn’t seem immediately intuitive enough. What’s more, their Sharepoint doesn’t scale smoothly enough to match the organization’s needs. Like most non-profits, activity is spiky throughout the year, a small staff runs the office year-round, but their ranks swell with volunteers around annual fundraisers and other events. Since their Sharepoint license is limited to 50 users, they can’t use it precisely when organized collaboration is needed most.

Dan championed using blist within the organization where it has found readier adoption by the staff compared with Sharepoint. Since both professional staff members and more casual volunteers use blist together, they have found blist lenses to be especially useful – giving volunteers a limited donor list to call down while letting professional staffers track more sensitive and personal information in the same database.

Dan found a pre-existing template in the blist community to start from using the blist Discovery feature, and modified it to better fit his organization’s specific needs. Since then, he has adopted blist for a personal To-Do list manager as well, and anticipates finding lots more uses for blist persaonlly and professionally over time.