Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission? Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. But a few more people will have a lot more money in their bank accounts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days. They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

MPower has traditionally been used primarily by faith-based organizations, (by the way, that’s not a small niche, even though it is one that is somewhat neglected by the nptech community,) and they have been quite committed to expanding from that niche. MPower announced today that they are hiring a new VP of community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. at 4:17 pm We are finding that to stand out there has to be something that provides and opportunity for the organization to be remembered. Their answer: they may well be losing ground. What are “influencers?&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). CiviCRM was first in satisfaction, SugarCRM, Organizer’s Database, and Democracy in Action were 3rd, 4th, and 5th, respectively. Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. at 12:59 am @sudha My organization is getting ready to launch a Drupal site with deep Salesforce.com integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. In fact, they are the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. But, hey, why not?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

Content Management Systems are an essential part of the communications function of nonprofit organizations. Proprietary CMS as part of a large package (such as from Convio or Blackbaud). There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

This is not so far on the heels of the acquisition of Get Active by Convio. And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). 2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07

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