In the moment and off the cuff…

She puts on her ONE/Northwest hat and births a new blog category (technology!)…

There’s an effort in the works to let the nonprofit technology world know that having software that talks to other software is currently a big issue for most small advocacy organizations. In a recent study about progressive technology, lack of data integration was cited as the #1 universal complaint.

We chose Salesforce.com as a database platform partly because it can integrate with other systems (our clients may be using What Counts for email blasting out of Salesforce, or using the Outlook Edition to look up people in Salesforce from thier email). Integrated systems can make life easier for all of us.

The effort’s called the Integration Proclamation.

The goal of the effort is to generate some mass that can be put in front of technology vendors, funders, etc. If you support the idea, please add your name to the list to indicate you want a world where the technologies that nonprofits use are able to seamlessly share data with each other.