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OCTOBER 2, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. If you read Connection Cafe regularly, follow @Convio on Twitter or are a fan of the Convio Facebook page - well, first things first, thank you. But second, you may be aware of this little thing called Convio Summit that's beginning tomorrow. Follow @Convio on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Author: Alissa Ruehl. Are you going to Convio's 2011 Summit in October? Do you want to share your opinions so that we can make Convio more user-friendly? The Convio Usability Lab will be back for its 4th year. Your participation in our research will help us make Convio software better for you.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Author: Jill Ward. Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. 2011 - it's a new year and a new Congress! In 2011, Convio will offer Local Data as part of our Advocacy suite - allowing you to use thousands of local targets for your online advocacy efforts. 2011 holds many opportunities for advocates in what is sure to be an exciting Congressional session.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Join the conversation by attending Convio’s panel discussion at Social Media Week in NYC or checking out our recap here on Connection Café the week of February 7. New year, new trends. Here’s what to keep your eye on for the coming year.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. Conferences are a great way to meet other Convio users, gain best practices, and think creatively about online marketing. some of us from Convio in the coming months (including yours truly!). some of us from Convio in the coming months (including yours truly!). Convio Summit.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Author: Patricia Hume. Father Time has almost put 2011 in the rearview mirror and Baby New Year 2012 is ready to be ushered in. I won’t spoil my video with Convio CMO Sara Spivey , but in a nutshell: There are new rules of engagement for nonprofits.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Author: Blair Naylor. Convio Summit 2011 kicks off today! Keynote : Don't miss this year's keynote speaker Chip Bell, best-selling author and entrepreneur, today from 9:30-11 a.m. Convio Luminate: Have a Convio Luminate question? Look for the Convio Luminate Badges! Convio's personal Geek Squad!

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Author: Jill Ward. Based on the rock solid fundraising performance by Convio clients, I’m hopeful of what’s to come in 2012. Overall, Convio clients raised 17 percent more online in the last three months of 2011 than in 2010. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for fundraisers this year?

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. You’ve got 2 weeks until the end of 2011, 1 week before you’re on vacation, and maybe a few hours to address all those miscellaneous tasks fighting for your attention so if you haven’t made your end-of-year fundraising plan before now it’s just too late right? Not if you keep it simple!

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APRIL 2, 2012

Author: Karoline McLaughlin. Today, the NRC, Nonprofit Research Collaborative , of which Convio is a member, announced the results of our spring survey. Today, the NRC, Nonprofit Research Collaborative , of which Convio is a member, announced the results of our spring survey. All roads are heading north! in four years.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. This year's keynote and opening session at the 2011 Convio Summit I think was one of the best I've seen in the time I've been at Convio. It was full of energy, fast paced, and the keynote speaker was great!

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MAY 4, 2012

Author: Vinay Bhagat. Today, Friday May 4, 2012, is my last day at Convio. In the end I decided to reflect on my favorite quote by Mahatma Gandhi, “be the change you wish to see in the world,” as I feel it encapsulates the Convio story very well. In 2011, an estimated $17 billion was raised online.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Author: Emily Goodstein. What could be better than a fabulous organization getting recognized for the important work they do by the entire Convio community during our recent Convio Summit in Baltimore ? EG for CC: Of Convio’s array of online resources, what have you found most useful? BR for POGO: Action alerts!

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JANUARY 17, 2012

Author: Cheryl Black. Includes a chapter by Dennis McCarthy, Convio’s Vice President of Strategy and Organizational Practice. ” By Chip Bell, Summit 2011 keynote speaker. Last year I made a personal reading list: 12 books in 12 months which felt incredibly reasonable since I love to read.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Author: Jill Ward. Congratulations to United Way of Lake County (UWLC) for receiving the 2011 Innovator Award in the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising category! Used Convio Personal Fundraising to allow one UWLC employee to raise money from friends and family; the individual collected $2,000 in 24 hours.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Author: Cheryl Black. At Convio Summit last year (that’s right, 2011 is already “last year”) I was asked for tips on managing a blog team. Since we’re a very email heavy culture at Convio (what office isn’t?) Image from wodongatafe.wordpress.com. Good question! The Blogger Alias.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Author: Noel Beebe. It feels good to be back in Texas after an action-packed Convio Summit in Baltimore last week! In case you missed it, we also unveiled our brand new 2011 Peer-to-Peer Event Benchmarking paper, and talked through how to use data to inform your event strategy. Howdy folks!

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Author: Sally Heaven. What do you get when you cross a bunch of activist Convio employees with some other techie Convio employees and a product manager who is really excited about the new Convio Advocacy API ? A grassroots campaign targeting the CEO of Convio, Gene Austin , of course. Let me explain. versus "Huh?".

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Author: Lacey Kruger. My title, however, refers to how I missed out on Convio Summit 2010. Share with me in the comments because I won’t be missing Summit 2011! Nope, this post is not about Election Day. I always vote early, so I suppose I am a bit absent from this day.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Author: Emily Goodstein. They make copying and pasting URLs unnecessary and the Convio team is all about ‘em! And in the category of the most juicy Connection Café cliffhanger ever, consider this: we’ll be doing some very fancy things with QR codes at the Convio Summit in October. Check it !

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MARCH 19, 2012

Author: Emily Goodstein. Today’s "Behind the Convio Admin Curtain" installment is full of juicy Convio best practices, and even a restaurant recommendation for stellar chocolate chip pancakes right outside Boston. PS—We call ourselves Convions, but I’ll take Convio-ers too!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Author: Lacey Kruger. Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. million in 2011. Congrats again to All Hands Volunteers who recently received an Innovator Award for the Best CRM Visionary/Use of Common Ground.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Brandy Reppy. We love our clients at Convio, and we love to hear their success stories. Participating organizations are tasked with saving at least 300 more cats and dogs between August and October 2011 than they did during the same period last year. for winning the ASPCA's nationally run $100K Challenge!

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Author: Jill Ward. You want to know how other organizations fundraising programs performed in 2011. Getting people to respond to surveys is a hard nut to crack. Surveys, specifically online, get lost in the deluge of work and personal email, texts, Facebook updates, RSS feeds etc.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Author: Sally Heaven. If you follow the news about smartphones, then you might have noticed that in 2011, shipments of smartphones outpaced shipments of PCs. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. Mobile is a growing trend that just won't quit.

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MAY 5, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. Convio even has an iPhone app for our Summit! Right now the 2010 version is available, and the 2011 version is coming soon. If you need help getting started, Convio offers a mobile website starter package (PDF) so give us a jingle! 36% of U.S. The smartphone revolution is already here.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Author: Tad Druart. The survey identified cloud computing as the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011. ” I laughed to myself and thought, “Wow, Vinay was on to something when he founded Convio as a 'cloud computing' company eleven years ago.” It’s cool. So cloud computing is cool.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Author: Jill Ward. That’s the service area for Philabundance , an amazing Convio client that provides food to approximately 65,000 people per week through direct services and network of 500 member agencies. In 2011, the results keep getting better!

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Author: Misty McLaughlin. Last week at the Convio Summit, discussions of how to get started with mobile abounded. Despite this, an NTEN survey last year revealed that only 16% of orgs will have invested in a mobile version of their website in 2011, whereas 90% will have an email and social media strategy, and 19% will develop apps.

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JULY 20, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Fast forward to 2011. Even though I’m the social media “expert” here at Convio , I don’t think I totally get G+ yet. I’m not sure what its best use is, how I can engage with people (friends, clients, anyone really) or what value Convio or I find in it.

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JULY 7, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Sheetal Persaud at hjc New Media , a Convio partner in Canada. The 2011 Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study shows that online advocacy files are an area of rapid growth, with almost 20% average list growth from last year. Thanks for contributing Sheetal!

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MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Mobile Web platform : In some cases, your current Content Management System (CMS) may be able to detect what type of device your site visitors are using and render your content accordingly (as is the case with Convio CMS). For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011.

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MAY 27, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. If ever there was a doubt in your mind about the multichannel approach, this will dispel it.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Author: Jill Ward. Reprinted from Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Convio Connection : interview with Dave Hart, Chief Technology Officer, Convio. You talk to a lot of nonprofit executives. What keeps them up at night ? The biggest concern that I hear over and over again is gaining a 360-degree view of their constituents.

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MAY 20, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Convio recently contacted me to write about my social media successes, particularly within the realms of online engagement. Second, it's 2011. When he told me about their wildly successful Facebook page launch, my jaw dropped. Online engagement is not difficult anymore.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Author: Blair Naylor. We had a lot this year and I wanted to highlight a few throughout 2011 that really stood out ranging from advocacy, social media gone viral, housefile growth to epic multi-channel strategies. Check out the following top 5 client success stories of 2011: RESOLVE. New York Public Library.

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