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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. Among those surveyed, 4 of the top 5 tools in terms of satisfaction were open source (or sort of open source) tools. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead. Convio Database Connectors: eliminate the hassles of manual data entry between databases such as Blackbauds donor database, Raisers Edge and your Convio constituent record database. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. million nonprofits.

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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? All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If Blackbaud felt Common Ground was extraneous, it stands to reason that other products in your line are similarly extraneous—what does the future hold for Luminate CRM, Sphere CRM or other related products in the Blackbaud line? Sphere CRM is one example of how Blackbaud has refocused a product.

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