Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 14, 2009
If there are two acronyms that are at the center of nonprofit communications, it’s these two, CRM (Constituent Relationship Management - and I’m making this broad enough to include fundraising) and CMS (Content Management System). What’s involved in this? First, the what - what to integrate?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 14, 2009
The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)
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Forj
DECEMBER 29, 2017
It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Your content still needs to be valuable enough to justify the cost. Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations.
Care2
OCTOBER 20, 2007
Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. With Open, nonprofits can see what people are doing, how often and how long. The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
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.) Be Helpful.
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