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More screenshots of Blackbaud NetCommunity, courtesy of Blackbaud’s Melanie Milonas:

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It looks like Convio’s CEO, Gene Austin, had a talk with Fortune Magazine’s Jon Fortt. The most telling quote is here:
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Blackbaud has finally unveiled its newest business strategy at Blackbaud Labs.
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Well, I knew it would happen sooner or later but Blackbaud has finally done it. They’re starting to do what was once possible only by hiring a team of developers and spending a large sum of money with version 5.5 of Blackbaud NetCommunity (BBNC). What is it I’m talking about? The wholesale merging of social networking with your fundraising tool. BBNC developer Tim Wolf gave me a tour of BBNC last week.
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In the course of reading research material for CRM technology, I have come across blogs by nonprofit tech vendors. They’re of varying quality and candor about the position of their company within the market. I think a lot of nptech folks tend to dismiss corporate blogs (I happen to agree for the most part) but there are some blogs out there that not only happen to discuss the personal but also seem to be very cognizant of their place in the industry and how they serve their clients.

Generally speaking, I would have to say that the smaller the company, the more that company’s blog stands out. It implies to me that an entrepreneurial ethos is still alive and kicking in those companies. One thing I do think that impedes the growth of all these blogs has to end: they don’t post enough. Frequency in posts is usually how people judge whether or not there is someone behind the helm of the blog and he or she isn’t asleep. Judging by some of the blogs that aren’t on the list, they’re definitely sleepwalking their way through Web Marketing 2.0.

Those of you looking to get on the next version of this list may want to either increase the personal nature of the blog or divulge more details or better yet, create more resources to be shared by tech workers on your blog.

Here’s a short countdown of the blogs I find enjoyable and worth reading i.e., not full of press-release type material:
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I was wondering why Techsoup was down all day. The sad news after the jump:
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According to the Austin American-Statesman, Convio bowed to the inevitable and withdrew its S-1 filing today:

Convio Inc. said it will withdraw its planned initial public offering Tuesday, nearly a year after it filed to raise about $86 million in an IPO.

“It’s still part of our future down the road, but right now, the markets really are in pretty bad shape,” said Gene Austin, chief executive of Austin-based Convio, which sells software and customer-management tools to nonprofit organizations.

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From the press release:

Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), today unveiled a new release of Blackbaud® NetCommunity™ that includes major enhancements in both function and features. From improved site design features to enhanced web accessibility and a native social networking feature called “Wave,” it will provide nonprofits with an opportunity to further engage their constituents in the vital Internet channel. Additionally, the company unveiled a new set of NetCommunity Open Platform APIs for creating custom parts, integrated web services, and custom transactions.

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In a rather surprising move, the Knol article that I had mentioned a couple of days ago has -poof- vanished into the ether. We’re now left with a “Knol not published” screen:

Ok, maybe it was a kind of embarrassing article for Blackbaud but really, did Blackbaud/Timothy Chou have to pull the article and thus deprive us of the enjoyment of mentioning “Software as a Service” and Blackbaud in the same breath? I think a biography from Timothy would have sufficed, no?

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I was just looking into Google’s Knol after reading a Techcrunch article about it. As you may know, Google’s Knol is Google’s version of Wikipedia but with Google Ads and money being driven to the writer of each article. If it sounds like the private sector is trying to replicate something a nonprofit is already doing, then you’re quite right. Regardless of the merits of Knol (I’m not sure it’s going to take off), I found something very interesting almost immediately.
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