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JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), 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. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. million of them.)

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MAY 19, 2008

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. I have become fascinated by the ways the CRM/Fundraising space is changing so rapidly.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 I mean – we want to be responsive and fair and listen to feedback openly, but I think at the end of the day the old saying is true. You can’t make everyone happy all of the time. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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