Posts by Kate Kaye

Nonprofits Spend on Software, but Are They Getting What They Need?

BY Kate Kaye | Thursday, September 22 2005

Whether they’re techies or not, nonprofit staffers are using software to help fulfill their missions. A newly-released report aims to quantify that nonprofit tech market. And in doing so, the study asserts that some ... Read More

Convio Quietly Updates Its Client Policy

BY Kate Kaye | Tuesday, September 13 2005

Following a summer review period, Convio, has quietly published its new “Customer Engagement Principles.” The campaign management software company's new policy reaffirms its mission to work with nonprofit clients ... Read More

Oregon Dems Launch Email Campaign to Counteract Republican Domination

BY Kate Kaye | Friday, August 19 2005

Engaging the press to cover their issues has been trying enough for Oregon’s State House Democrats. Not only are the 27 legislators in the minority, the damp coastal state’s legislature meets just once every other ... Read More

Network-centric Parks Advocates Show Signs of Things to Come

BY Kate Kaye | Tuesday, August 2 2005

Leave it to a campaign aiming to improve New York City’s parks not to miss the forest for the trees. Parks1 is harnessing the Web’s inexpensive communications tools and social networks to spur interest in ... Read More

Schundler’s Software to Mobilize Other Candidates' Armies

BY Kate Kaye | Tuesday, July 19 2005

Leave it to wonkish New Jersey politico Bret Schundler to help develop the very technology that drove his latest campaign. Now, the former Jersey City Mayor and twice-defeated New Jersey Republican gubernatorial ... Read More

Paper Chase: Capitol Hill Gets Email -- Sends Snail Mail

BY Kate Kaye | Wednesday, July 13 2005

Call it the first victory in online democracy. With just about every advocacy group in existence compelling its members to fire off emails to their Senators and Representatives, the volume of email and postal ... Read More

Should Tech Vendors Pledge Allegiance to Right or Left?

BY Kate Kaye | Thursday, June 23 2005

Early this month, Convio, a software provider that’s little-known outside nonprofit and political spheres, prompted the wrath of the left-wing blogging community. The company’s choice to serve Alliance for Marriage, ... Read More

Software Helps PACs Track Never-Ending Cash Flow

BY Kate Kaye | Friday, June 17 2005

2006 may be the next big year for big political contributions, but for Political Action Committees, the money flow almost never stops. And with technologies like Vocus’s newly updated government relations management ... Read More

Anti-Convio Blogstorm Raises Bigger Question of Tech Vendor Partisanship

BY Kate Kaye | Thursday, June 9 2005

It was Howard Dean’s presidential primary campaign’s successful online fundraising efforts that helped to promote Convio beyond the niche market of nonprofits and political campaigns the software firm serves. Fast ... Read More

Web Fuels Collective Sparring Over Bolton, but to What End?

BY Kate Kaye | Wednesday, May 25 2005

As far as staff and members of conservative Web-based group, Move America Forward, were concerned, Senator George Voinovich had stabbed the President and the Republicans in the back. On April 19, under rising pressure ... Read More

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