Kintera

I’m spending a few days in training for a program called Kintera (site). It’s the best worst service I’ve ever used. Nothing has shown so much potential and covered so much ground and yet put together and supported so poorly. Still they’ve managed to gain significant marketshare with non-profits and government agencies. The business intelligence that can be harnessed from their product does seem limitless, though I wish it wasn’t such a chaotic setup. Of course a program of this level needs someone competent running it. I’m not saying that’s me because frankly it requires a level of business sense that I do not have yet. The marketing and accounting thought processes haven’t sunk into my brain. But I suppose if I’m going to work on fixing the hack job that is our current Kintera setup, I’m going to have to learn how our operation runs top to bottom. I do enjoy challenges. I just hope I can tackle this one while handling all the other stuff I’m doing.