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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

NTEN

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . If funding doesn’t help incentivize this change, our sector will remain in a slow dance toward synchronization. .

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Yes, Freeconferencecall and open source screensharing options are good for some orgs– but sometimes “duct taping&# together different solutions ends up costing more time/money than a true integrated audio/web solution. at 6:26 pm A completely different approach is the On-Premise appliance offered by RHUB. 14 Renzo 01.07.08

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CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&#

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