Kintera, Jenzabar Announce Partnership for Higher Ed

Jenzabar, a vendor of software and services for higher education, has announced today a strategic partnership with Kintera.

Read more about this partnership by David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor.

SaaS Goes To Work At Motorola And The Humane Society

Do you need to understand SaaS? Software as a Service is expanding as a means of offering database and CRM applications via the Internet. Sometimes referred to as "hosted" or even "Application Service Provider" options, this nuanced approach is increasingly used by Big Business and non-profits and educational institutions of all sizes. The following article details the Humane Society's use of SaaS technology as a case study.

Read this 12.01.07 InformationWeek article by Andrew Conry-Murray.

Nonprofits' Data Breached Yet Again In Software Attack

Here is an article regarding a data breach at Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is the second software vendor to nonprofits this week to announce a data breach.

Read this 11.08.07 article from The NonProfit Times.

2007 Digital Future Report

A report by the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School released the results of research that comprise a unique data base that captures broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, user-generated content, and social networking.

Click here for the highlights of the report.

XML, API, CSV, SOAP! Understanding the Alphabet Soup of Data Exchange

Peter offers an explanation of how data can be stored, types of data formats and methods to transfer data, and how APIs are used.

Let's say you have two different software packages, and you would like them to be able to share data. What would be involved? Can you link them so they exchange data automatically? And what do all those acronyms mean? Peter Campbell explains.

Read this article by Peter S. Campbell published by Idealware in October 2007.

Press Release: Kintera Launches Industry's First Open Platform

Kintera has partnered with nearly 30 industry leading organizations - Solid Cactus, Mobile Commons, DailyStrength, TMA Resources, CopperKey, Quantrix, Razorsight and Freecause to name a few - in both the enterprise and nonprofit technology sectors to develop new solutions to the challenges organizations face.

Read more about Kintera Connect.

Penetrating New Constituent Groups

Learn how to integrate high-tech and high-touch approaches to expand your fundraising base in this article published in the fall 2007 AHP Journal and co-authored by Bentz Whaley Flessner consultants Josh Birkholz and Chris Cannon.

Read the article.

Expert do's and don'ts for dealing with data breaches

A data breach victim shares his advice for addressing leakage incidents.

By Matt Hines

Organizations that experience data breaches must move quickly to assuage the fears of their constituents and go beyond expectations to address the situations effectively, according to those most familiar with the incidents ...

First to the podium was David Escalante, director of computer policy and security at Boston College, which in March 2005 experienced a break in to a server containing sensitive alumni fund-raising information.

Read more of the 9.11.07 article from InfoWorld.

Blackbaud's Acquisition Of eTapestry

On August 6, 2007, Blackbaud announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry for approximately $24.8 million, plus an additional amount of up to $1.5 million under a two-year stock-based performance incentive arrangement. Read Paul Clolery's article regarding the questions that are being asked by users and the tech community.

By Paul Clolery

When a company spends $90 million in two years, it tends to get tongues wagging. And there has been no shortage of opinions in the nonprofit technology community regarding the impact of the $24.8 million acquisition of online donor management and advocacy tool eTapestry by software giant Blackbaud.

Read more from the 9/1/2007 edition of The NonProfit Times.

Kintera Connect Partner Program Welcomes New Merchant Partner, EZ Prints

EZ Prints joins a growing list of Kintera Connect Partners to bring applications and solutions to nonprofit organizations.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA) today announced that EZ Prints, a leading private-label digital photofinishing, fulfillment and technology solutions firm, has joined the Kintera Connect Partner Program as a merchant partner.

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Baseball Hall of Fame Scores with Segmentation

Read how the Baseball Hall of Fame turned its members into donors using custom-built segmentation models.

By Chantal Tode

A certain level of passion for a cause is required in order to plunk down $1,000 or more towards it; the kind of passion that one would think baseball fans might have for their beloved sport. However, until recently, turning $40-a-year members into bigger donors had proved a challenge for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Five years ago, the National Baseball Hall of Fame was doing very little direct mail, says Ken Meifert, director of membership and sales for the organization. Then the decision was made to build up the National Baseball Hall of Fame's membership program primarily via direct mail.

"Our membership program has been growing by leaps and bounds," Meifert says, adding that the organization is sending out approximately 20,000 acquisition pieces per month and adding between 8,000 and 10,000 new members a year. The National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY, currently has approximately 25,000 active members. Two years ago, the total was closer to 10,000.

However, while efforts to sign up new members were proving successful, the organization was having a harder time figuring out how to turn some members into "donors and bigger supporters of the museum," Meifert says. The challenge it faced was "figuring out who in our database of names was most likely to donate gifts of $1,000 or more," he continues.

This article was published on 8/24/2007. Read more on the DM News website.