Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change. That dog won’t hunt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Of course, the critical factor here is what is “AmazingWebCreator&# ? Worst, of course, is if AmazingWebCreator is a proprietary, custom CMS that the developer wrote themselves in 2002, and no longer supports. 3) Platform choice: Look at a number of things – if it’s open source – how many developers are there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

This, of course, is not the first declaration of the end of the digital divide. Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

calling me a pro -- but honestly in comparison to Vicky's work, I feel like more a Sunday afternoon painter.). I've never met Doug face-to-face, but I sure know and admire his work. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work. And, of course, having an audience always added a little bit of energy too.

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