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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

, and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the " The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike " Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto. How cool is that?

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free.

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Common Ground Q&A with Idealware

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After our acquisition of Kintera in 2008, we went through a similar review process and decided to focus that product on the peer-to-peer fundraising space and to stop offering it as a CRM product. In the Content Management Space, you currently have three tools: NetCommunity, Luminate CMS and Sphere CMS.