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JANUARY 19, 2011

I’m really happy to be part of the 11NTC Scholarship fundraising campaign this year. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! You can bid on nearly 100 items in the first silent auction , getting something great for yourself, and supporting the campaign at the same time.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today, we exceeded our scholarship campaign fundraising goal for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference! With the matching $10,000 gift from Convio , that's enough for a record 62 scholarships to the NTC. If you have any confetti lying around, now's the time to break it out. To date, we've raised a grand total of: $12,287!

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AUGUST 24, 2012

Some of the 2011 Winners Were: Best Overall Use of Convio — Project On Government Oversight (POGO) was presented the award for their sophisticated use of Convio Luminate™ Online, Convio Luminate™ CRM, and Convio CMS and complementing it with social media tools and staff creativity to reach more of the general public.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

2011 - it's a new year and a new Congress! Online advocacy doesn't work in a vacuum - it works best when it's part of a thoughtful integrated campaign that combines offline and online actions. Otherwise it looks like your campaign is simply there to build your list. Happy 2011. Author: Sally Heaven. Okay, that's that.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2011

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. Integrated campaigns : Integrated may be a word that’s bounced around your organization for years but never will it be as important as in 2011.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2011

That's the reason behind our annual NTC Scholarship Campaign: it's important that we make the NTC as accessible as possible, regardless of our attendees' budget sizes. Convio is matching donations dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $10,000. > Apply for a scholarship to the 2011 NTC.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

So how did you do in 2011? Here are some online marketing strategies Convio recently outlined in their whitepaper “Utilize Your Year-End Momentum” that you can start working on right now, so that when “that time” rolls around again, you’ll be better positioned to reach your online fundraising goals.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Convio Summit 2011 kicks off today! Convio Luminate: Have a Convio Luminate question? Look for the Convio Luminate Badges! Convio's personal Geek Squad! Community : Stop by the Convio Booth #13 on the 4th floor to learn about the new Convio Client Community, Monthly Webinars, Service Modules and much more!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. What made CWF’s 2011 year-end campaign so special and why do you think it performed so well?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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 ? They’re frequent consumers of Convio’s Community resources and they're are stars of the DC Convio User's Group, too.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 14, 2011

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? Author: Guest Blogger. Not if you keep it simple!

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

How leading nonprofits use benchmarks to optimize their campaigns. Prior to joining Feeding America, Liz provided strategic marketing and fundraising consulting to national nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Canadian Cancer Society at Convio.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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. Not much of an example, that's what.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Debra Askanase , Idealware , and Convio included in the list. . Organized by Nancy Schwartz and Getting Attention, there are more categories to submit in this year, including special event taglines, campaign taglines, and any program. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC !

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Congratulations to United Way of Lake County (UWLC) for receiving the 2011 Innovator Award in the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising category! Check out what Valerie Petersen, Marketing Communications Associate at UWLC, has to say about their Page It Forward personal fundraising campaign and how they exceeded their goal by more than 50 percent.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Thank you to everyone who who has bid so far in our online auction to benefit the 11NTC SCholarship campaign. Savor your memories of the 2011 NTEN conference in Washington D.C. Between donations, sponsors, and bids so far in the auction, we're just about $2000 shy of our $10k goal. We're almost there! >

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Email goes direct to the inbox, our online strategy metrics are led by terms like open rate and clickthroughs, and online fundraising campaigns depend on email marketing. Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. A decent fall-back for this data might be Campaign Monitor’s CSS support report.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

They make copying and pasting URLs unnecessary and the Convio team is all about ‘em! Epolitics has a whiole bunch of exciting ideas about ways you can incorporate QR code fun into political campaigns. In fact, my colleague Jonathan just posted something yesterday on this here blog about this fancy pants topic. Check it !

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. About the Campaign. In 2011, the results keep getting better! Here are five ways to act against global hunger from the ONE campaign.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Although Convio does come pretty close with Common Ground Man.). Alviso's Medicinal All-Salt , a campaign the uses humor -- understatement, sarcasm, non-sequitur, lo, the full arsenal -- in all the right ways. We're pretty sure the Muppets got in the last word on that. At least, we hope so. Nobody upstages Grover.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. They’ve created multiple fundraising and email campaigns that are personalized for specific segments of their housefile. million in 2011.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's Bedsider Project. Here's a smattering of apps for you to check out: Human Rights Campaign's Buying for Equality app helps you support companies that support equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (scroll down on the right to find the app link).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2011

The following post is by Sheetal Persaud at hjc New Media , a Convio partner in Canada. Hjc specializes in integrated fundraising, brand building, and campaigning. If you are running an acquisition campaign – make sure you are focusing on each of these key areas: Branding, Engagement, Giving and Stewardship.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. Author: Misty McLaughlin.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off tomorrow and one of the key elements to Community Day is the Science Fair. With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. Want to share it?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

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%. Check out the graphic, that's an example of an email we sent as part of an integrated campaign.). Author: Cheryl Black.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Mobile strategy : From defining goals, to designing for mobile, to developing and executing campaigns, to measuring results, a growing number of digital strategy consultants can be your partner in effectively using the mobile channel. For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Reprinted from Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Convio Connection : interview with Dave Hart, Chief Technology Officer, Convio. There is also a need to have robust reporting capabilities that enable a nonprofit to plan and execute integrated campaigns, and create engagement pathways. Author: Jill Ward. What keeps them up at night ?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2011

Convio recently contacted me to write about my social media successes, particularly within the realms of online engagement. There are plenty of resources out there, all of them pretty much saying the same exact things on how to craft a successful online campaign. Second, it's 2011. Online engagement is not difficult anymore.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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. And not to mention, they won Organization of the Year by DMANF !

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2011

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has accomplished so much this year – we previously blogged about their amazing success with the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Campaign in June when New York joined 6 other states in legalizing same-sex marriage.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But don't lose sight of an important piece of your 2011 fundraising strategy that you need to make sure is in place before we kick off the new year: sustaining giving. Twas the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and all through the nonprofit community all eyes were on Cyber Monday and end-of-year fundraising and making the annual goal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

If you choose to hard-code your own mobile website, the standard width for a mobile website (as of 2011) is 320 pixels. With the exception of mobile pages created specifically for group text messaging and QR code campaigns (donate, petitions, polls, and so on), most people will browse through only the fresh content on your mobile website.

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Care2

JANUARY 31, 2011

But, we’re nearly one month in to 2011, and overachievers are starting to prepare for the 2011 year-end fundraising campaigns already. We’ve teamed up with Sea Change Strategies to update the 2011 overachiever’s guide to year-end fundraising. We wish you great success in 2011. ?.

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