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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.) Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

They don’t want to choose a product that won’t get the full resources of the merged company, or could even be killed off. Fund-Master and GiftMaker Pro), of late, they’ve acquired companies and kept their products going (Team Approach, eTapestry, PIDI, Kintera).

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Convio Opens the Kimono

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the NTEN blog, it's a much deeper set of tools than before, and the site provides integration resources for organizations using social media sites like Facebook and YouTube in their strategies. Last week, the major competitor to Convio, Kintera, announced its "open API" last week. Let me pause for a second.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » MoveOn.org Political Action: Direct Response Video

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The page is their standard fundraising page (the kind you get with services such as Convio or Kintera). It said: Dear MoveOn member, I recorded a video message for you about this election year—it felt too important to put in a regular email. Watch it here: The here is this page on the MoveOn.org site.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs. Someone (I think it was Nick or Peter) said that nonprofits can do more than vendors think they can – so providing the resources is important.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. In the end, the vast majority of non profits simply do not have the technology resources to use most open source solutions. Other companies in the NP space are similar. I believe eTapestry runs on a database package called Versant.

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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

Online Communities, Conversations, and Comments The AFP Blog points us to a good resource about " How to Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community " While several years old, Commoncraft's post " What are the differences between message board and weblogs ? Jon's comments on plone comments.

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