Jon Larosa and I are just back from Dreamforce, the big annual Salesforce conference, with 30,000 people mobbing the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Many were there for the first time, evaluating or just getting used to working with Salesforce and its cloud computing model.  

The 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference reinforced my sense that at this point, it's useful to consider choices about Open Source as a continuum rather than a yes/no.   

I'm just back from this year's NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) in New Orleans.  The most striking and welcome thing for me was the richness of experiences in organizing campaigns and building constituency on the web today. Lots of detailed, honest sharing of experiences in blending email, one's own web site, and the social media to accomplish meaningful goals. By social media, I mean public resources such as FaceBook, mySpace, care2, blogging, social tagging.
 

I've been thinking a lot about data integration lately. It's always been a significant and distinctive part of our approach. It was therefore a natural to contribute to Idealware's wonderful framework for evaluating data exchange programming tools for nonprofits.