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Blackbaud buys Kintera

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 Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. And I’m sure that the very low stock price of Kintera’s certainly made a buyout of it by Blackbaud easier.

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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. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things.

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How Many Donor Databases Are There?

Robert Weiner

Community Enterprise. community pearl. Kintera Sphere. Reachways Community Manager. Three Rivers Systems. Church Contribution System. Vian Corporation. Common Grouns. communitEbuilder. Oaktree Systems, Inc. bromelkamp. Compass CRM. Compass Technologies. ContributorLink. Hill Systems. Contributor Relations. Cornerstone.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

On the recent NTEN community call someone asked the panel to name 5 vendors (other than Blackbaud and Convio) to whom we’d send a CRM system RFP for a $100 million nonprofit. Fund-Master and GiftMaker Pro), of late, they’ve acquired companies and kept their products going (Team Approach, eTapestry, PIDI, Kintera).

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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?&# Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. What do you think?

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Convio Opens the Kimono

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, the major competitor to Convio, Kintera, announced its "open API" last week. buzzword is their way of making integration happen in a low-cost way and build community, it???s Completely open community within. She is more optimistic about Kintera than Judi, noting "Kintera???s religion.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

I finally got to meet folks from the Nonprofit Salesforce NPSF Google group that I had gotten to know online, reconnected with friends from the Philadelphia and New York user group communities and with people I met at NTEN’s NTC last year. Even though I didn’t travel with any colleagues, I always felt part of a connected group.