Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

No expense was spared, and lots of open bars. I enjoyed most of the opening keynote, but a too-long segment around Neil Young’s souped-up energy efficient car (shown below right) dragged on and on. Related posts: The view from the cheap seats It appears that my post about Kintera Connect was linked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What can we say about the open source packages? And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

SO much work on fundraising widgets, but so few vendors in the case management space and even fewer providing an open API. We are not being well served by a lot of nonprofit technology. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. You can have openness and security.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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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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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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

based nonprofits are faced with two extremes: on the one hand, there are large large players like Convio , Kintera , and Blackbaud and on the other hand there are smaller providers like DIA , FirstGiving , and NetworkForGood. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Do you see opportunity in the middle ground? Philip King: We absolutely do!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. So what are all the others doing?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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.

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