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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. What do you think? Time will tell. {

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. Be Helpful.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Kelly Lao, Executive Director at the German American Heritage Center, said the Bloomerang system allowed the GAHC to turn more lapsed or new donors into sustained givers. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang. Top Free Nonprofit Software for Events 81% of U.S.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. 35 The Open Food Network, an international platform cooperative, has a focus on helping local farmers connect to customers with sales of their organic harvest.

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