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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. For open source, that translates into 10-15 hours of a consultant’s time- less than 2 days- where a vendor can provide unlimited support for an entire year.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. Booth Give Away: Win one day of Salesforce.com consulting!

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. Booth Give Away: Win one day of Salesforce.com consulting!

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

NTEN

Rem Hoffmann, Exponent Partners , and Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Everyone has come across the term "cloud computing", but what exactly does it mean?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. 20 practices.

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