Salesforce.com is a pretty amazing platform for doing CRM that goes well beyond just donor management. As others have mentioned, the Salesforce Foundation makes it available from free-to-darn-cheap. It has good Outlook/Office integration, and unlike most other solutions Salesforce has an really solid Web Services API that makes it possible to integrate with all kinds of other systems, notably including Plone, the open-source CMS system that many nonprofits use.
ONE/Northwest, the nonprofit I work for, has done a ton of work in this area, and has had great success at delivering powerful, easy-to-use solutions to mid-sized environmental nonprofits.
Sounds like Theo doesn't know about the Plone community, which just wrapped up their week-long "Archipelago Sprint" on a Norwegian island to drive forward development of the next major release of the most kick-ass open-source CMS on the planet.
Duh. We need to do BOTH -- change the facts "on the ground" by writing code whilst SIMULTANEOUSLY waging political battles to reclaim what's been taken from us and defend what rights we still have left.
For basic social movement theory that's founded in the real-life experiences of actual social justice organizers, see Doing Democracy. Geektivists could learn a lot from those who've gone before.
Steltor just got acquired by Oracle, and their calendaring products will be absorbed into the forthcoming Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle's attempt at an Exchange-killer.
Did you know that Macromedia has a pretty good donation program? We -- and many of the Northwest environmental orgs we work with -- have gotten flash and other MM products from it.
Until energy consumers start demanding clean energy (both in the marketplace, and through the political process), we'll never make the transition to a sustainable energy system.
One organization that is working to build both real markets and realistic policies for clean energy here in the Pacific Northwest is Climate Solutions. Worth checking out... these folks are trying to take the pie-in-the-sky that Lovins et al. discuss and make it real on the ground.
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Salesforce.com is a pretty amazing platform for doing CRM that goes well beyond just donor management. As others have mentioned, the Salesforce Foundation makes it available from free-to-darn-cheap. It has good Outlook/Office integration, and unlike most other solutions Salesforce has an really solid Web Services API that makes it possible to integrate with all kinds of other systems, notably including Plone, the open-source CMS system that many nonprofits use. ONE/Northwest, the nonprofit I work for, has done a ton of work in this area, and has had great success at delivering powerful, easy-to-use solutions to mid-sized environmental nonprofits.
Plone is a powerful, extensible, easy to use CMS that will probably get you a good portion of the way there.
Sounds like Theo doesn't know about the Plone community, which just wrapped up their week-long "Archipelago Sprint" on a Norwegian island to drive forward development of the next major release of the most kick-ass open-source CMS on the planet.
Duh. We need to do BOTH -- change the facts "on the ground" by writing code whilst SIMULTANEOUSLY waging political battles to reclaim what's been taken from us and defend what rights we still have left.
For basic social movement theory that's founded in the real-life experiences of actual social justice organizers, see Doing Democracy. Geektivists could learn a lot from those who've gone before.
Steltor just got acquired by Oracle, and their calendaring products will be absorbed into the forthcoming Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle's attempt at an Exchange-killer.
Did you know that Macromedia has a pretty good donation program? We -- and many of the Northwest environmental orgs we work with -- have gotten flash and other MM products from it.
The donation form is online.
best,
jon
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Jon Stahl
ONE/Northwest: Online Networking for the Environment
www.onenw.org
Until energy consumers start demanding clean energy (both in the marketplace, and through the political process), we'll never make the transition to a sustainable energy system. One organization that is working to build both real markets and realistic policies for clean energy here in the Pacific Northwest is Climate Solutions. Worth checking out... these folks are trying to take the pie-in-the-sky that Lovins et al. discuss and make it real on the ground.