Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CRM & CMS Integration: Plone and Salesforce.com March 16, 2009 Today, I was reading up on what the Plone community has done with integrating their CMS with Salesforce.com. Jon Stahl 05.01.09

And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. First, the what - what to integrate? There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. This is integration of a sort. Integration.

And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. First, the what – what to integrate? There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. This is integration of a sort. Integration.

CiviCRM originally only integrated with Drupal, but recently a lot of work has been done to also integrate CiviCRM with Joomla. This means that since the code sits in the same exact place,  and the databases could even be shared (or not, it’s your choice) in effect, CiviCRM is becoming part of your CMS.

In addition to Winter ‘10 from the mother ship , a lot of good stuff has been happening this Fall in our little ‘ole Salesforce database. Formspring introduced Salesforce integration. Box.net introduced Salesforce integration. Formspring Salesforce Integration. Box.net Salesforce Integration.

Most database tools have features that do not work well, that I just wish they would have not included at all. Our food has too much sugar and refined flour, our economy has too much credit, and our databases have too many features - all of which can lead to serious systemic problems. per donation transaction.

Today we’re pleased to announce both Twitter and Facebook integration into the Mobile Commons platform! To integrate with Twitter, click the ‘Setup’ tab in your Mobile Commons account and enter your Twitter login information. mData databases can be queried from a Flash widget. We’ll be happy to help!

As we move towards the critical donation season during the holidays in a recession, now more than ever it’s necessary to integrate social media into the larger communications mix. How do you turn an organic conversation into something more, perhaps a donation or an action? But keeping the experiment in a box or a silo is a mistake.

The power of the API lies in the ability to connect databases and applications to provide a 360-degree view of your constituents; this is something that can only be achieved when all of your systems (and other applications that contain valuable information) are talking in real time, versus collecting and transferring data after the fact.

Today we’re pleased to announce both Twitter and Facebook integration into the Mobile Commons platform! To integrate with Twitter, click the ‘Setup’ tab in your Mobile Commons account and enter your Twitter login information. mData databases can be queried from a Flash widget. We’ll be happy to help!