Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Return on Investment is what many executive directors may be thinking when social media strategy comes up. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. While both are important to track and identify, your executive director is probably most interested in the tangible benefits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

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. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Most custom CMS that I’ve seen lately are sorely lacking in features and/or usability, in comparison to what’s out there, and available. 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

AUGUST 6, 2007

Charlie brings up an interesting point – the number of customers that Blackbaud has pales in comparison to the leagues of nonprofits who use other solutions. Instead, they will have to rely on consultants, or unfortunately volunteers. Be Helpful.

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