[rfu-membership] Fwd: [Stubblefield] CMS Recommendations for New Stations?

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

This discussion about relationship management programs suitable for  
community radio stations may be of interest.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: andy gunn <andy at prometheusradio.org>
> Date: 21 Márta 2008 10:28:58 GMT-05:00
> To: stubblefield at lists.prometheusradio.org
> Subject: Re: [Stubblefield] CMS Recommendations for New Stations?
> Reply-To: stubblefield at lists.prometheusradio.org
>
> prometheus has been looking at CiviCRM recently as an option for  
> our use:
> http://civicrm.org/
> it integrates with joomla or drupal, both content management  
> systems themselves:
> http://joomla.org/
> http://drupal.org/
>
> it extends the capabilities of joomla or drupal, and makes them  
> full constituent
> contact management systems.  it seems better targeted at the  
> nonprofit / public
> / civic sector than something like sugar or salesforce.
> -a
>
>
> al davis wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dharma Dailey wrote:
>>> We're in the early stages of planning for our full power
>>> station here   in Columbia and Greene Counties in New York.
>>>  Right now we have a bunch of contact lists in excel files
>>> which will be just fine for the next few months.   It would
>>> be great to hear from other stations what they are using for
>>> contact management.    Does anyone out there have a
>>> customized version of Salesforce or Sugar, etc. that is
>>> nicely optimized for their community radio station?
>>
>> We are looking at "Cream" .. it's free/open-source from the same
>> people that make Campcaster (broadcast automation).
>>
>> We too are in the early stages, and have not made any real
>> decisions yet,
>>
>> Main site:
>> http://campware.org/
>>
>> Site for Cream:
>> http://campware.org/en/camp/cream_news/
>>
>> =========quote======
>> Cream is a multilingual customer relationship management (CRM)
>> system for media organizations that features powerful modules
>> for sales automation, customer service, subscription
>> management, incoming and outgoing email, template-based HTML
>> newsletters, and a WYSIWYG editor.
>> =======end quote=====
>>
>> They have a whole package of stuff, all designed for community
>> radio.
>>
>> I prefer free/open-source all the way, when possible, because it
>> is community driven, like us.
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Andrew Ó Baoill
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