I'll be posting a series of short excerpts of what I've already written of Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology. I hope this will whet your appetite for more. Please consider supporting me to get this book written.

This is a part of the chapter "Strategic Planning for Software and Internet Projects". The section is entitled "CRM and the Myth of Uniqueness."

As I said a while back, I'm writing a book about nonprofit technology. It will be titled (this is no surprise) "Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology". Having been at the #12NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) really got me excited about the book. I met people who I would like to talk to about the book, and I got some good ideas about what I might want to delve into. I'm 10,000 words into the book already, although I have a lot of research to do.

I've had my sleeves rolled up for most of the last 15 years in building websites and web-based databases. It's in my blood. I've used most back-end web technologies invented at least once, and I've dived deeply into a number of them over the years. Right now, my focus is on Drupal and websites, and setting up and administering the LAMP/R stack. I know more than most Drupal folks about integrating Drupal and Salesforce.

As I said, I am done. Blogging, that is. But I’m a writer, and the writer in me decided that “Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology” is going to be a book. I’ll leave you just with that little tidbit. In April (after my lenten social media fast), and after I relaunch my personal site (I’m moving all of the tech stuff there, and this URL will have stuff for the book,) I’ll fill everyone in with a lot more details. I’m actually really excited about this project, and have begun to line up folks for interviews, and do research, and all sorts of stuff.