Volunteer data can certainly be a sticky-wicket. I recommend to most of the groups I work with that they create an excel spreadsheet with column headings that volunteers do the data entry in. Then, a staff member can review for problems, and have the volunteer fix anything *before* all those street addresses wioth no capital letters make it into your database. Once the data looks good, staff can import the data from the excel spreadsheet. You can also save all the excel worksheets in a centralplace on your network and use a naming protocol that indicates which volunteer did the data entry.
Sort of works for new entries, but not for address changes and
the like. In addition, it doesn't have the data validation that ebase
does, such as not putting carriage returns in the name or address
fields.
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