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The Nonprofit Data Ecosystem: How Does Your Data Flow?
Flickr Photo by HappysmurfdayOver the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software, Content Management Systems, and CRMs. As we prepped to conduct the 2009 Constituent Relationship Management Survey and Report, we started to think more deeply about how to define a CRM, how to categorize the increasing number of software systems on the market, and what would be the best way for NTEN to bring an objective, useful report to the nonprofit sector to help you make better-informed software decisions.
After some good conversations with NTEN Members and consultants who have their heads in these systems, we began thinking about the links -- or the missing ones -- between the different systems nonprofits use to track any number of tasks on a daily basis.
2009 NTC Preview: Laura Quinn on Open Source Content Management
If there's one thing I've learned in my 6+ years at NTEN, it's that people love to hate their web sites. Perhaps that's why there are so many choices when it comes to CMS (oodles of which are rated in our CMS satisfaction survey). Ask anyone in the nonprofit technology community about Content Management Systems, and they're likely to mention one of the following:
We like them because they're free. We love to hate them because there are so many twiddly bits to adjust. Thank goodness we have Laura Quinn, Executive Director at Idealware. She's going to sort out some of the differences between the three and make sense of it all, in terms even non-geeks can understand.
I spoke with her about her session at the 2009 NTC, "Comparing Open Source CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone", and why CMS seems to be the area where open source has really taken off in the sector:
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