Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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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. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

Allowing the use of your key business applications from multiple sites. I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example. Why can't you just send her a doc like you did last week?" I've tried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Out of all this work, a software application was born, called MEMBERS ONLY, a modular application for nonprofit CRM. Everyone knows the nuisance of emailing around a doc and then having to collate everyone's edits. Along the line we incorporated it as MEMBERS ONLY SOFTWARE. We also do consulting.

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