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Platforms break open, part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. I have a few comments. He’s right.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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Comcast Internet Essentials - A Green Program to Bridge the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

This will (hopefully) enable hundreds of thousands of low-income people to begin using free cloud services like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, and wide array of online educational programs to name just a few examples. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) I’m assembling a panel now and need some good case studies, so if you’ve got examples, please email me. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 11 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ).