Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Basically, Kintera is taking directly from Salesforce ’s playbook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Tuesday morning’s keynote focused on applications. Related posts: The view from the cheap seats It appears that my post about Kintera Connect was linked. &# The integration with Amazon web services went over better, and seemed more immediately appropriate for the big business crowd in the cloud. I kid you not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

So I guess I should be happy that there were so many for-profit vendors at the table, and that this means that it will be easier for nonprofits to do the kinds of integration between applications that was nigh impossible a couple of years ago. That’s good news. APIs are here to stay. In fact, they are the future.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

based nonprofits are faced with two extremes: on the one hand, there are large large players like Convio , Kintera , and Blackbaud and on the other hand there are smaller providers like DIA , FirstGiving , and NetworkForGood. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Do you see opportunity in the middle ground? Philip King: We absolutely do!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07 Access, Excel, custom stuff, and a smattering of other vendor applications. We have power and options in using open source solutions. So what are all the others doing?

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