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. We're already committed to Baltimore in 2011, as well.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

I was a freshman at BU and my boyfriend at the time was a freshman at Harvard , birthplace of Facebook. Tangent: Did you know: the “original” Facebook was a physical Harvard directory of incoming students. If only Facebook as we know it today had existed then!). Fast forward to 2011. They didn't get it.

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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. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2012

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

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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. Author: Sally Heaven. Mobile is a growing trend that just won't quit.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

I’m back from Dreamforce 2011 , trying to process everything I saw and learned. That means that approximately 60% are using other applications such as Convio Common Ground or Luminate, the old template, Affinaquest , Outreach Suite or any number of combinations. Are they fans of our Facebook page? Probably not.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

So, I was obviously excited to see the 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report from Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com land in my inbox. Email marketing and websites will be the most important communications tools for nonprofits in 2011, followed by direct mail, in-person events, Facebook, and media relations/PR.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Facebook will still dominate. There are acquisitions (like Convio ) still to be sorted out and most importantly I’ll be watching to see which products will be discontinued. He cautions that the practice of reaching people via mobile, web, social media, email etc. Tablets will rule.

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