2009 API Comment System 
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 9, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. That’s a good thing.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2007
I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API. Of course, the API was only one part of Convio’s initiative, so I do still think they come out ahead, a bit. He’s right.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 14, 2009
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?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 29, 2008
In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. Will they continue in that direction?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 15, 2007
One of the wonderful things that has happened since I wrote the Open API whitepaper way back in January, is that finally, vendors are realizing how important openness really is, and are beginning to implement things in a big way. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things. The API is SOAP.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
for geeks is APIs. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.
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