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AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) Be Helpful.

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MAY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things. The API is SOAP. Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. OpenSocial is a set of APIs. This breaks the whole thing open.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Integration. So what’s the right strategy?

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API.

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. It gives me enough pause to trust them with my email. { at 12:10 pm Woah.

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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. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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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. They also are opening a new data center, as well as bringing Akamai technology into the mix.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009. Thanks for the great advice.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. Can’t you just use categories?

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. Free software?

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MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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MARCH 16, 2009

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. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09

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APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 When I re-started this blog 6 months ago, I named it Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology for a good reason. This was in the solidly web 1.0

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) I do agree with Jon to some extent.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. {

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