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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

As any facility with visitors should, it has a gift shop which sells intangible support items ( Adopt-a-Seal ) as well as very tangible ones, like warm socks with various marine mammals on them. It also has a basic e-retail store (housed and managed within their Convio website). The original and the variant.

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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. I believe Convio is emblematic of this model.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

At the Convio Summit earlier this month, we honored The American Heart Association (AHA) with an Innovator Award for the Best Team Event for their Youth Market Events, Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart ! Author: Noel Beebe.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. In fact, ASPCA and Conservation International received recognition during Convios Summit, in part for their successful use of widgets on social networks such as MySpace.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

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. . So how did you do in 2011?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Alan Cooke, Convio. Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success. Nonprofits, Donors and Consumers Adopting Online Lifestyle. 2) Mobile technology.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Nonprofits are often among the earliest adopters when it comes to technology and cloud computing is no exception. If you're drawn to the power of Salesforce integrated featureset, Convio's Common Ground CRM which is built on the Salesforce platform may be a good alternative. The savings can be dramatic too.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

This time, we're behind the scenes at America Supporting Americans (ASA), an organization working to improve the lives of men and women in the military through their three signature programs: Adopt-A-Unit, Foster-A-Unit, and the Youth Civic Action and Awareness Program. CC: Of Convio’s online tools, what have you found most useful?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2010

Guest post by Emily Goodstein, Account Manager at Convio. Last week I adopted a wonk. No, I didn’t welcome a new member to my family, but I made a donation to OMB Watch (a Convio client doing amazing work to promote open government, accountability, and citizen participation) as part of their “ Adopt a Wonk ” campaign.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Tad Druart, Convio. The coming years will be very interesting to see -- will younger donors adopt more of the practices of the Matures or will organizations that embrace the preferred channels of Gen X and Boomers "out compete" peer organizations that do not shift investment and focal points?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2012

This May, Convio will host our 8th annual Convio Cares Days, where employees across the country take time off to support local non-profits. A small team in the Convio office in DC has been setting everything up and I wanted to offer 5 tips on organizing an office volunteer event. Not everyone enjoys the same kinds of activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We love our clients at Convio, and we love to hear their success stories. It doesn't take a lot to know that this challenge meant really mobilizing in the community to get awareness and adoption up! If you look to adopt a pet, they not only have a write up about the animals, but also pictures and my favorite feature - video.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Earlier this week I (Michaela Hackner) was in Austin, TX attending the Convio 2008 Summit , a national conference focused on the use of the Convio's constituent relations management tool. Attendees primarily consisted of nonprofit organizations seeking to grow their donor base while also continuing to engage their existing audience.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Did your organization do some sort of gift, food drive or animal adoption this holiday? P.S. Scan this QR code for a special thank you message from Convio. Or, "Thanks to you, we were able to feed x number of people this Thanksgiving". Now, let's get even more creative. Do you have photos? Enjoy and have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. I have it on video).

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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. Author: Jill Ward. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for fundraisers this year?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

While we like to think of ourselves as early adopters , Evernote was recently named Company of the Year by Inc. Convio has developed tools to help organizations track and act on information related to constituents’ relationships ( CRM ) and online engagement. Conclusion.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. In addition to their great success with Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has also adopted Common Ground Social which is an integrated social fundraising solution. million in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. Laura Lee Dooley suggests that adoption of social media or rather lack of adoption by baby boomers is simply a generational issues. Instead, encourage low-effort contributions such as star ratings.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Your organization may already use a traditional CRM like Convio, Blackbaud, or Salesforce to track and maintain information about your members. So, what is Social CRM? At a very high level, the "CRM" in "Social CRM" stands for "Customer Relationship Management."

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Nonprofits can greatly benefit from adopting many business practices. And anyway, according to a recent survey by Convio, organization size and integrated marketing sophistication do not correlate , so the size of your nonprofit does not mean you can’t have successful IMC. So how is this relevant to your nonprofit organization?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009.

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JULY 20, 2011

Really, all they have in common is being G+ early adopters. 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 22, 2011

Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. Convio offers some guidance on building mobile-friendly donation forms here (note you need to be a logged-in Convio community member). It was recently reported that one in three Americans owns a smartphone. could embed the video].

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MARCH 3, 2010

This was unprecedented level of giving through this channel and might mark the tipping point for greater adoption. Although gift amounts were limited to $5 to $10 dollars an estimated 6.5 million people used their cell phone to donate. You can download the full study at: www.convio.com/mobile2010.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. The presidential candidates are accepting contributions via phone (a credit card swiper, that is), and the Girl Scouts are too for cookies ! And I've never looked back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray?

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APRIL 9, 2010

In today's NTEN NTC session "The Generational Divide of American Giving" Andrew Magnuson and Matthew Mielcarek, Nonprofit Consultants, discussed the recent research published by Convio , Edge Research and SeaChange Strategies on the Next Generation of American Giving. Newsletters, newsletter, newsletters!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 31, 2010

This realization about event fundraising analytics was reinforced during recent conversations with Alan Cooke at Convio and Jeff Shuck at Event 360. This joint guide published by Convio and Event 360 contains some sound advice that can be applied by any nonprofit which uses event fundraising as a source of donations. (By

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The typical nonprofit operates with multiple systems from different vendors adopted on an ad hoc basis by various departments acting independently. Organizations will only benefit from adopting active and real-time solutions, especially considering the significant cost savings available. -.

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APRIL 23, 2009

Convio has embraced this thinking by committing to integrating with other technologies. We have been providing data integration services for years because we recognized that many organizations were going to adopt our online marketing and fundraising platform and want to integrate it with their existing donor DB.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Of course, this is where I insert a plug for my former employers, GetActive and Convio, who each powered parts of Dean’s online campaign and went on to bring these tools deeply into the nonprofit space. Each time, nonprofits quickly adopted the tools and techniques , and we still see the results today. Lesson Two: Social Networking.

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JULY 26, 2011

Commissioned by Convio, Edge Research conducted an online survey for nine weeks gathering responses from 123 nonprofit practitioners and conducted 15 in-depth interviews, resulting in the Integrated Multi-Channel Marketing Study. Motivations for adopting an integrated marketing philosophy vary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. " Web 2.0,

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JUNE 18, 2009

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). As a result, your overall cost for adopting a system is reduced. Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

You can give everything from a traditional ornament to lions and tiger and bears (Oh my) (really you can adopt a lion, tiger and/or bear), you can give bees and goats or even a pile of manure for that special someone.a

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