Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Funny thing: it’s happening the same week as the Convio Summit , and the Blackbaud Conference. Anyway, if you are involved in any way in developing software for nonprofits (and, I guess, you don’t code for Convio or Blackbaud, or, heck, even if you do) please make your way out to the left coast for Nov 17th.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

4) Blackbaud Buys Kintera. Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. 6) Google Analytics vs.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Using varied webforms (like DemocracyInAction, Blackbaud, Network for Good, etc.). I’ll talk a bit about mechanics, and talk about strengths and weaknesses, and under what situations you might want to look at it. I’ll cover: CiviCRM/Drupal (with Joomla notes). Plone/Salesforce.com. Drupal/Salesforce.com. Joomla/Salesforce.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

An example of this I’ve run into is when an organization uses Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge, and wants to have online donations via NetSolutions, their older (and much cheaper) “integration&# tool. In this option you have the least control over look and feel - the vendor controls the look and the behavior.

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APRIL 14, 2008

It is an enterprise-class client/server CRM, and has the kind of features you see in such packages as Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. And Blackbaud may well be shaking in their boots. It’s been around for quite a while, and has a solid user base. I’ll be following MPower closely over the next months and years.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) apps out there.

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JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. Among those surveyed, 4 of the top 5 tools in terms of satisfaction were open source (or sort of open source) tools. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

1 trackback } Who’s more open, Blackbaud or Kintera? - On the whole, though, I applaud them for seeing the light, and opening up their platform. It will be interesting to see where this leads them. { Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. million nonprofits.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Proprietary CMS as part of a large package (such as from Convio or Blackbaud). On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host). Proprietary stand-alone CMS (such as Sharepoint.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just be aware that when you demand openness from Blackbaud, Convio or any other of the CRM software vendors — that you don’t put yourself in a position where they are still more transparent than you are. It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it. 9 admin 09.22.07

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