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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. After the webinar, I’ll be putting the slides up in varied places, and NTEN will have a recording of the webinar. {

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

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Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . During his 4.5

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Data Portability for Good

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Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Instead of using that home-built coding system for locations, try using an existing naming convention. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. This is big. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

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Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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