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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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? and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available.

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open? If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us without leaving the virtual world!

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Common Ground Q&A with Idealware

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After our acquisition of Kintera in 2008, we went through a similar review process and decided to focus that product on the peer-to-peer fundraising space and to stop offering it as a CRM product. This is not new for us, though some have argued we haven’t done it enough.