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New kid on the block: BlackbaudNow

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You have a small number of templates to choose from (which, frankly, aren’t so great looking - I think they dedicated more graphic design time to their branding and pages than they did to the templates.) And, it’s designed to make migration to eTapestry easy - therein, I suspect, is the key. There are no APIs.

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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

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I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. One drawback is that the syntax of Dokuwiki is different than MediaWiki, and so the more I use it, the more I forget when I use MediaWiki.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. Oh, and my consulting practice has a new logo, done by the fabulous ALR Design ! { Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc.