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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. Marie is an active volunteer with the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, her daughter’s high school, and board member of SF Basque Cultural Center.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. The API is SOAP. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. s not easy!

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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Free Range: The Art of Story Telling - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

May 29, 2007 | Bobbi Russell Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Attendees discussed a recent Nicholas Kristof article illustrating how bringing stories to a human scale - like ones about puppies and children - can be much more effective than broader ones. Reader Comments (1) Thanks to James & Hatef for attending. All rights reserved.

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Free Range: The Art of Story Telling - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

May 29, 2007 | Bobbi Russell Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Attendees discussed a recent Nicholas Kristof article illustrating how bringing stories to a human scale - like ones about puppies and children - can be much more effective than broader ones. Reader Comments (1) Thanks to James & Hatef for attending. All rights reserved.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Four months ago, Facebook allowed third party companies to build mini-applications in their site, this is similar in concept, but now includes many other players. ???Platform??? Platform???