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5 Things to Know about Salesforce for Association Management

Forj

” Compare that level of access to talent, Jake adds, to the many AMSs in the market with their own proprietary coding language. What that means is you get access to all the Fonteva features as well as basic access to the Salesforce system for the price you pay Fonteva.

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Buying an LMS? Acronyms You Must Know (Part 1)

Gyrus

API- Application Program Interface: A set of protocols or code that IT team uses to tie/integrate the LMS with other systems such as CRM, HRIS, HRMS, etc. It provides seamless and faster access of content to learners and it doesn’t matter how far they are from your origin server. through the same platform.

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Government 2.0 Presentation from Tara Hunt

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those without personal computers, they could login to a secure website to access and change the information. The API key would be free and simple to access and governed by Creative Commons licensing. Everything built off of the API would have to be licensed similarly, encouraging an overall culture of openness.

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously.

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Visualizing the Tate's Collection: What Open Data Makes Possible

Museum 2.0

Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Pros and Cons of Cloud Software for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

"Cloud-based" refers to any software or application not physically installed on a local server or computer, but rather hosted outside your organization and accessed via an Internet connection. Cloud software, on the other hand, gives users real-time access wherever there's an Internet connection. Lower Upfront Cost.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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?