This Friday's debate on open APIs and what they mean for nonprofits will give several major nonprofit software companies the chance to share where they're moving and how that can help you. Some of our panelists are already giving their two cents. Read what they're saying and don't miss the live debate.

David Crooke from Convio said,

"Nonprofits are far from rich in IT resources, and they don't just need vendors to offer APIs to give them the ability to write software, they need vendors to implement support for those APIs in each other's products, and provide complementary technology solutions that "just work" together, without forcing the nonprofits to write any software."

Tom Krackeler from GetActive said,

"Organizations don't want to use another vendor or hire a contractor to build a specialized application if the resulting data is just going to get silo'ed off from the rest of their other online constituent data. They want to report on new constituent activities as part of their constituents' existing online history, and use them to segment their list for targeted email. So I think there is a real opportunity for us to provide APIs (as well as batch import tools) to store external constituent activities that are powered by external applications or that occur offline."

Join us for the live debate on Friday, October 20, and find out how you can join the discussion. You can find more details here.