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. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. What can we say about the open source packages? 4th (since there was a 3 way tie) was CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. What can we say about the open source packages? 4th (since there was a 3 way tie) was CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. 1 trackback } Blackbaud buys Kintera » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 05.29.08 Time will tell. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. 4) Blackbaud Buys Kintera. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. 6) Google Analytics vs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

One of the communities that inspired this development - Planetwork has held a vision for how these emerging open standards could be used for social change. There is also a $50,000 bounty program for OpenID integration in major open source distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If Katya Andresen points us to " Story Telling As Best Practice " online free training with Andy Goodman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. CEO Kintera steps down. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Some reactions here. What do you think?

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open. In the coming months, developers will be able to share information and best practices and theres the potential of creating an open source community around Convio Open APIs. Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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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. But, hey, why not?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. This is not new for us, though some have argued we haven’t done it enough.

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