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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

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They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. And, it’s got completely open APIs. They made the change after my blog comments and I assume some others commented also.

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Anyone interested? That was all.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

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This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Integration. So what’s the right strategy?

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SaaS vs. Open Source

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It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08

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News from NTC ‘08

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MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. There will be way more on this in later posts. There will be penguins!!

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

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at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 2) The customers, as a general rule, check to the open source or open API box on their RFP and then hire the vendor to do the implementation… they just don’t have the technical chops to really dive deep into the software. .

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