Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Last week, the major competitor to Convio, Kintera, announced its "open API" last week. It appears that Convio is more closely modeling their initiative after the wild success of software-as-a-service giant Salesforce.com. She is more optimistic about Kintera than Judi, noting "Kintera???s open API???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

CEO Kintera steps down. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.) Some reactions here. Commentary on the data here.

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