The Nonprofit Matrix is an online directory and guide to Application Service Providers (ASPs) and portals offering web-based services for nonprofits and charities.
Archive for January, 2007
January 10th, 2007 at 05:14am
Allan Benamer at Non-Profit Tech Blog has a pointer to a press release from Microsoft announcing its own SaaS (Software as a Service) CRM system, that could be a rival to Blackbaud, Salesforce SugarCRM and other constituent relationship management systems that are popular with nonprofits.
The new system (dubbed Titan / Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live) is in preview/beta-test phase now and is expected to be released by 3rd quarter of this year.
URL: Microsoft is going to do SaaS CRM too…
January 6th, 2007 at 10:47am
Idealware has published a report looking at leading choices in the open source content management system (CMS) field. Open source CMS’s are popular with activist and social change organizations they are non-commerical products (though they are used and supported by professional developers) and because they are seen to be cheaper that commercially available CMS’s (not always true if you include site development and maintenance costs). Open source CMS’s should be a top choice for nonprofits planning to build blogs, or use social working tools such as RSS, flickr, etc.
Idealware’s report profiles three leading platforms: Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and includes screenshots, and links to marquee nonprofits using each system.
Read Idealware’s Comparing Open Source CMSes report.
View Nonprofit Matrix profile listings for Website Hosting/Content Management Systems.
January 5th, 2007 at 09:33am
Blackbaud is kicking off the new year with the launch of Blogbaud.com, a new blog that promises to “give our employees a platform to sound off on what they know best: technology, nonprofits, business, and Blackbaud itself”. The new blog aims to build an active community where Blackbaud’s staff and developers can interact and collaborate with users of their products.
First posting on Blogbaud, Ten Social Web New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofits by Internet Marketing Manager Chad Norman, looks promising of more good content to come.
January 2nd, 2007 at 03:28pm
An interesting flurry of activity in past weeks with the appearance of a new type of online fundraising tool that could bridge the gap between tried-and-true online donation forms, and the emerging world of Web 2.0 applications (myspace, youtube, wikipedia, etc.): charity badges — also known as fundraising widgits. (widgits are small objects that you can put anywhere on a web page to add new functions, new content, etc.)
Idealware posted a roundup of the candidates that appeared just in time for the holiday giving rush. URL: Tis the Season… for Cheap and Easy - and Distributed – Online Fundraising Tools
Charity badges are interesting new tools that could open up a whole new area in online fundraising - it’s still a bit early to tell if and how these tools might catch on.
I’m going to start my own list here for now. I am already planning get a new category for peer-to-peer and personal fundraising tools set up on the main Matrix directory, so watch for a more comprehensive listing there soon.
Here’s my current list, starting with the ones mentioned in Idealware’s post:
If you know of more fundraising widgit providers, let me know (irishg@nonprofitmatrix.com) and I’ll include them here, and in the directory.
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