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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

OpenIssue will continue with its strong team focused entirely on CRM and data (using Salesforce, Convio Common Ground, etc.). I have decided to step out of co-running OpenIssue , a business that I helped start more than 2 years ago, so that I can work part-time, to get (and stay) healthy.

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JUNE 17, 2008

Actually, I didn’t use the Battlestar Galactica expletive , I used the one you’re more familiar with. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. It is named, as of now, Aikido.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API. Be Helpful.

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MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. What do you think? Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 Extensions are ways to connect the Convio app to other Web 2.0 Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The combination of Orange Leap and The Guru are a web-based CRM/DMS and reporting system aimed squarely at Salesforce.com and Convio Common Ground. But I’m afraid they are going to be squeezed to a pulp between the behemoths of salesforce.com and Convio, on one hand, and the strong, vibrant open source community of CiviCRM on the other.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days. It looks very promising.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Monday morning, way, way too early: Convio Partner Breakfast. Tags: Nonprofit Tech 09ntc civicrm nptech nten penguinday. Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Sunday evening: Science Fair and reception. I can’t wait! Wed - Thursday: CiviCRM Developer Camp.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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JULY 25, 2008

Is this a bad thing? More on that in a later post. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. More on that in a later post. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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MAY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. So, there is now one less nonprofit CRM vendor to choose from, and Blackbaud keeps getting bigger. Hard to know.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Another note: I’ll talk about this in detail later, but Salesforce also includes the new Salesforce.com app, Common Ground, by Convio. Tags: CRM web Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS integration. First up, CiviCRM/Drupal.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

His name is Matt McCabe, and he is very familiar with the nonprofit fundraising space, having spent time as a consultant at Convio. But, perhaps, there is change on the horizon. MPower announced today that they are hiring a new VP of community.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. What’s involved in this?

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07 Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 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?)

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Content Management Systems are an essential part of the communications function of nonprofit organizations. I’m going to focus here on the nonprofit sector, and options that are most common among nonprofits. Proprietary CMS as part of a large package (such as from Convio or Blackbaud).

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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.

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