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MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. If they have well-executed social media campaigns, send executive staff links to their profiles on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , Foursquare, Tumblr , etc., Find your competitors the Web. Get training.

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JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Way to go, NPR! Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do!

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AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. I figured it was time to give my final assessment.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! And also an integration with SugarCRM. Well, it seems that it still is “coming soon.&# Now things are getting interesting.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

LAMS – not as much an LMS as a curriculum development tool. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Just wanted to mention that we’re working right now on a tighter integration service to Gliffy that should allow developers to embed Gliffy diagrams in a wide variety of applications. - Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09

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JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. But it may well be that for more complex integrations, the Kintera API will provide more power. I could argue it either way.

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" GetActive Integration Austin said integration is continuing.

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JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. I have become fascinated by the ways the CRM/Fundraising space is changing so rapidly.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Maybe we’ll see a downloadable virtual machine with MPower installed running off a SQLite db. :-) I’m also hoping to see some modules for integration with Drupal put together. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

As he told the story, the server edition is a real priority for Canonical, they already have big deployments and support contracts, and we should see exciting features like easier centralized authentication and ebox [1] integration in the next release. [1][link]

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial.

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Prior to founding Collaborative Conversations, Ken received his certification in Integral Coaching ® through New Ventures West. Find Ken on Twitter at @kenhomer. Find him on Twitter at @pierrekhawand and on as a guest blogger on the TechSoup Blog. Find Kristy on Twitter at @kg.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.) That’s good news.

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AUGUST 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" However, there are a few areas where corporations are succeeding and nonprofits may want to consider: 1.)

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APRIL 15, 2014

” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. If you find Twitter boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.”

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. billion donated in 2007. This is a 44% increase over 2007's online giving estimates. The Present and Future are Integrated. This reinforces the importance of an integrated approach to managing your donor relationships.

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The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late. Thanks again–I hope all’s well with you.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open!

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

We need to watch to not try to be holier than though and in the process only provide shitty, cobbled-together, hard to use and miserably supported software (which we do often enough) all the while keeping a very clear eye on each of our own integrity and values, as Jamie suggests. Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06 4 Katrin 10.13.06

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APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. engagejoe : ‘An element that’s integral 2 a campaign’s success?’

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MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com connects up with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and soon Skype to "bring your connected world to email," as they say. Outlook.com naturally integrates well with free Office Web Apps , online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. It integrates very easily now with Skydrive.

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JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ve heard my various sagas around using Linux on the desktop. I migrated to making it my primary desktop about a year ago. And, guess what?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In our integrated communications plan, we believed that taking advantage of social media tools would assist us because of its social nature; allowing us “always be on” and present in the community conversation. We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us. Sources . Hermann, C. 61-82. .

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. [link] There is also a FireFox toolbar to go with it. 2 marnie webb 09.25.06 3 Beth 09.27.06

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. On Twitter, it is retweets. Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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