Aug 12, 10:39 pm: [NTEN Bay Area] Innovation through Open APIs

Live blogging: Innovation through Open APIs

(hazards of live blogging apply: misspellings, misquotes and mistakes)

Presenters:

Notes:

Rich:
Use or Geocoder (mapping API): enter your address and see all your representatives

Lobo:
API allows CiviCRM to connect to other systems like Google Maps.

Clint:
Doesn’t know of anyone who is using the API (though it’s possible)

Steve:
Salesforce available to nonprofits, has an API but it’s not an open source application. There’s a commercial model behind the application. One of the reasons it’s being picked up by the nonprofit community is the open API. People are running salesforce from the command line. Some clients have used the API to create a partner portal.

How’d you like to see people using APIs?
Rich:
Geocode students in the local high school and then do some predictive things based on the place that troubled students came from

Lobo:
Focusing on the integrator market. Building voter modules onto of CiviCRM. Adds additional functionality to existing system.

Clint:
Definition of CRM (and what it does) is a whole big topic. How is it useful for nonprofits? Able to use API to build modules that are specific to nonprofit world but use the computing power that’s built into an already available CRM.

Steve:
The open API can be a device for building community. The API is a marketing device. It’s making the developer a part of your customer API. The map-based initiatives really exciting.

(some demos that I’m just not capturing well)

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