Here's why Kerika is the smarter alternative for groups seeking social and political change:

• Kerika is very affordable
   
  Even though non-profits and NGOs can frequently get discounts on commercial software, there are installation costs, tech support costs, and hardware upgrades to pay for. Kerika, on the other hand, requires no up-front costs or long-term committments. After the 30-day free trial you pay just a low monthly subscription charge, and if you buy several subscriptions at a time, you get deep discounts. As your project team grows or shrinks from month-to-month, so does your subscription bill.


• Kerika works on Macs, Windows and Linux
   
  Most collaboration suites on offer today work only on Windows, but you are hardly in a position to turn away supporters simply because they are Mac or Linux users. With Kerika you don't need to get everyone on Windows just to get them all on the same page.


• Kerika connects across organizations
   
  Creating social and political change, and making a real impact upon the lives of people is all about bringing together people from across organizational, geographic and network boundaries to support your vision of a better tomorrow. Kerika lets you build a people-to-people network in just seconds that brings together people working from home, offices and coffee shops.


• Kerika is compelling for creative people
   
  You wouldn't be an activist if you weren't a creative person to start with. And yet, what do team sites and email have to offer to a creative person like you? Lists of files, lists of tasks, lists of lists... But no big picture, no compelling vision. With Kerika you get Idea Pages, a kind of digital paper on which you can sketch out your projects, and then add documents, Web links, pictures, and sticky notes.


• Kerika is great for managing documents
   
  With all the content that your team generates, it's a full-time job just to file all the different versions of documents, notes and commentary that make up the project's documentation history. Kerika takes care of all that filing because it comes with a simple, flexible, document management system that automatically files all the different versions and notes attached to documents, and it does this for you and everyone else on the team.


• Kerika lets you share large files
   
  Large files are increasingly common now that we have all become more adept at incorporating digital media in our documents. Unfortunately, email technology was never designed to handle really large files, which is why most email systems, even those that offer unlimited storage, choke on large emails. But sharing large files is not a problem for Kerika.


• Kerika offers great privacy
   
  Groups working for social and political change need to be particularly sensitive to privacy because they are frequently dealing with issues that make people jumpy, particularly the vested interests who like the status quo just fine. If you use free hosted services, you can kiss your privacy goodbye because all these companies have automated software that silently scans your documents and communications to figure out just what advertisements they should show you next. With Kerika, on the other hand, you can set up, in just a couple of minutes, your very own private network.


• Kerika offers project and process templates
   
  Create your own project and process templates, capturing the best of what you do, and you can get a new intiative planned and underway in just seconds. Emphasizing processes and methodologies will make it easier to attract donor dollars from the increasingly number of foundations that now evaluate non-profits on such metrics.


• And Kerika even works with people who are not Kerika users!
   
  And, here's the best part: you can put together a team where some people won't use Kerika, because Kerika can automatically send emails to these people whenever any of your projects or documents gets updated. These emails summarize the changes in the project and come with relevant attachments: for example, if you update a document or modify an Idea Page, your team members will get a copy of the document and a screen shot of the Idea Page. This lets you get started with using Kerika without having to worry about everyone else on your distributed project team.