Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2011

In January of this year, Convio acquired StrategicOne , a leading provider of data analytics, predictive modeling and campaign management services. This advanced method of analysis identifies segments that require continued mailings in order to be profitable as opposed to looking at each campaign separately.

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Mail Convio Analysis Method 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). Hat Tip Jordan V at Convio ) Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively.

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Museum Indianapolis Jordan Artist 50

NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Flickr: bensheldon Allyson Kapin summarizes some key findings from Convio 's 2009 Online Marketing Benchmark Inex Study , and cites some analysis by Superstar NTEN member Robert Weiner.

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NTEN Netsquared Sample Convio 36

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

So I took the post to Cliff Armstrong, Convio 's Engineering Manager. Good cloud service providers, including Convio and Salesforce, do the same thing. These reports contain an independent auditor’s analysis of a service provider’s controls related to security, processing integrity, confidentiality/privacy and availability.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 16, 2009

09 NTENnies At Large (Blackbaud's Chad Norman, and Convio's Jordan Viator) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) .

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NTEN Chad Jordan Nptech 36

NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. At our last analysis, our Facebook recruits had donated a total of $3,793 in the last 12 months, with an average gift of $79. Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If Whenever you post an action alert, simply add &s_src=facebook to your link.)

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ROI Facebook Advocacy Social Media 94

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

” At Convio , we hope fundraising and marketing tips make you look cool to your boss and peers. And since when the teacher asks you for critical analysis you can’t just talk about the stuff you liked, here’s a few points that I disagree with or at least am bummed out by. If you aren’t sure yet, that’s OK.

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Wichita Report Social Media News 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Jordan Viator. Deborah Finn.

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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Understand the key peer-to-peer fundraising metrics with Analyze This: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics by Convio and Event 360. Number of participants.

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Software giant Blackbaud bought Target Software and Target Analysis Group for $60 million. Online fundraising firm Convio acquired rival GetActive for almost $18 million on the same day.

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Open Source NPO Tech Open 20

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Convio in booths 107 & 108. Democracy In Action in booth 11.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter Focus Group: Jordan V from Convio calls Twitter an unofficial focus group! This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." " Social Butterfly views Twitter as a great brainstorming tool. My ratio is 2.4,

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Convio in booths 107 & 108. Democracy In Action in booth 11.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 90

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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Marketing Blackboard Social Social Media 70

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The mayors and council members we reached out to were equally proud and excited (and in one case even asked if “Convio sold their software to politicians?”). I also did a little, non-scientific analysis of some of the cities that had jumps of 20-30 places in their 2008 to 2009 ranking.

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Austin Online Learning Minneapolis 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Power analysis Protest Lobby Recruit allies Phone bank. Check out Convio Founder, Vinay Bhagat's recent video interview discussing multi-channel methods to make a greater impact on fundraising, marketing, and advocacy. Real-life training Job descriptions Testing Management procedures.

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Organization Community Online Offline 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'd also want to do some analysis and find out what works best for keywords -- signing online petition, making donations, or both. SalesForce/Google AdWords Learning Center Google AdWords Learning Center Leveraging Google AdWords for Fundraising Convio Primer on SEO. Resources: VolunteerMatch SalesForce/Google AdWords Case Study.

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Adwords Google Game Campaign 69

Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Network 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just be aware that when you demand openness from Blackbaud, Convio or any other of the CRM software vendors — that you don’t put yourself in a position where they are still more transparent than you are. at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool. 9 admin 09.22.07

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Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The video above is the result of a brilliant online fundraising campaign that NTEN's executive director, Holly Ross, launched back in February to help raise $10,000 in matching scholarship money to Convio's scholarship sponsorship. Oh boy do I need a Social Networking Analysis for Dummies Glossary).

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NTEN Conference Community Technology 82

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

This is not so far on the heels of the acquisition of Get Active by Convio. 2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07 at 9:22 am I am not sure that I agree with your analysis. Blackbaud has done other acquisitions in the past.

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Open Source Blackbaud Time Fundraising 100

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Tools by Jordan Viator of Convio Social media tools tend to be "bright, shiny objects" with which organizations become enamored. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.

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Social Media Media Cancer Social 62

Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2011

Guest blog alert : The following post was contributed by Donna Wilkins of Charity Dynamics , a Convio Solution Provider. One of the most important steps in moving ahead is to do an analysis of your results. Author: Cheryl Black. Thanks for contributing Donna! You’re likely to find you know more than you think you do!

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Offline Integration Online Mail 30

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2011

Applying single-variant analysis to any RFM segment can provide a degree of discrimination that can easily detect donor groupings that are profitable. By default, clients using Convio’s campaign management services automatically gain access to these demographic, philanthropic and multi-channel variables.

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Donor Convio Profit Method 34

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After the acquisition of Convio, the combined team evaluated our full product portfolio. To drive product decisions, we consider many aspects: customer needs, opportunity fit, market and product status, and a business analysis. Consideration of platform is part of this analysis, but not an overriding factor.

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Blackbaud Product Integration Platform 29

Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2009

We’re currently running additional analysis — I’ll post those results once they are complete. In the meantime, I’ll be speaking on this and other related topics on March 26 at a webinar hosted by Convio. These are interesting findings that most certainly lead to more questions than they do answers.

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Channel Fundraising Mail Gift 26

Care2

APRIL 2, 2008

Conduct a competitive analysis of the organizations you will compete with using the selected keywords, and look into possible variations of your selected keywords until you find a combination that places you in the first several ads that appear.

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Adwords Google Social Media Advocacy 51

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

So much so that I just wrote a blog post about it on the Convio blog: [link] Outside of fundraising, I think that growing brand awareness and dissemination of breaking news and alerts (especially for twitter) are strengths of social media as a complement to email communications.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59