Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. 4th (since there was a 3 way tie) was CiviCRM.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Fund-Master and GiftMaker Pro), of late, they’ve acquired companies and kept their products going (Team Approach, eTapestry, PIDI, Kintera). Although Blackbaud has bought companies and immediately killed off their products, (e.g., However, in most cases I haven’t seen evidence that they have invested in the future of these products.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

I haven’t included any all-in-one systems (like Kintera), mostly because I don’t think they are a good idea - you might get a halfway decent CRM, but you’ll for sure get a crappy CMS, and there is no good reason for that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Kintera has chosen to integrate open identity standards and data sharing standards into their social CRM platform [link] These standards XRI and XDI are all a part of the identity ecology and will be talked about extensively at the IIW.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. That’s good news. APIs are here to stay. In fact, they are the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), Jon's comments on plone comments.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) But widgets are just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. CEO Kintera steps down. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Defined CRM as a tool and a piece of technology that allows you to collect and manage people in your universe. Get Active (best for advocacy, easiest to use email tool) Kintera (big program and lots of features are not necessarily used) Convio (fundraising) Blackbaud. Think about technology last. Way of life. Constant contact???

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JULY 10, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Do you see opportunity in the middle ground?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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