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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage. Lower Costs. Reliance on third party(ies).

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Charities in the Cloud: Why the Hype Might Not Be Quite Hypey Enough

NTEN

This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Most payments are handled by subscription, by taking a piece of financial transactions and/or charging based on usage. Lower Costs. Reliance on third party(ies).

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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.

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