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MARCH 21, 2011

Author: Fred Waugh. The new solution integrates Convio’s online marketing and fundraising platform and best practices model, known as Convio Go!™, ™, with Grizzard’s direct response strategies and capabilities for implementing integrated campaigns. The new offering, Go!

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 apps out there.

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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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AUGUST 10, 2011

Author: Jill Ward. Every year at Summit , our client conference, we honor organizations that are doing truly innovative things, whether its tech-related, campaign-specific or data management brilliance. We want to see submissions from clients of all shapes and sizes in the following categories: Best Overall Use of Convio.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Covering both Facebook and Twitter basics for nonprofit organizations, Nicci and Sean did a very important thing in their presentation: they explained why fundraising professionals should care about year-round relationships versus simply making "the ask" at predefined times of the year.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Author: Kent Gilliam. Kent Gilliam is the Convio Community Manager. Be sure to follow him and keep in touch with other Community members, download free kits and sign up for free trainings and webinars here (for Convio clients only). Have you asked your constituents what they want to know about your organization?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Make a calendar – outline all activities you want to share, plan activity that integrates with overall organization messaging and schedule them in advance (tip: make a calendar). 10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Social Media Success View more presentations from Convio.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Mobile Commons is a Convio partner and they have just launched Mobile Advocate - A new product integrated with Convio Luminate and designed to drive targeted advocacy phone calls from the web or SMS. Integrate your mobile database with Convio other CRM. Build a mobile list now.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Author: Convio is coming to a city near you! Convio is setting up shop in a city near you—a workshop to be specific. Come one, come all! We're hosting a free Nonprofit Success Workshop in cities across the country and right now we have February and March all set! Are you hungry? We have breakfast!

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APRIL 17, 2012

Author: Karoline McLaughlin. So, how does this act of caring and sharing apply to you and your organization? Effectively leveraging integrated, constituent engagement marketing strategies to attract and retain these types of donors pays off, and BIG! It seems pretty clear to me why you should care.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Author: Taylor Shanklin. How can I integrate social media marketing efforts with other channels? Did your organization do some sort of gift, food drive or animal adoption this holiday? I'll leave you with a few of my favorite examples from some amazing organizations: AEON Homes Thanksgiving video. Do you have photos?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Author: Lacey Kruger. The organization is a volunteer-staffed nonprofit that’s dedicated to timely disaster response and relief assistance. As the organization grew, the need for consolidation and proper segmenting became more imperative… enter Common Ground. million in 2011.

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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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MAY 29, 2012

Author: Jennifer Atkins. To sign the pledge, request that they complete a simple online registration form, providing your organization with contact information and the opportunity to continue the dialog. Keeping your email list alive and kicking is one of the keys to a successful online marketing program. Social Fundraising.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Your donor, member, supporter, and so on data is gold to your organization. So I took the post to Cliff Armstrong, Convio 's Engineering Manager. Good cloud service providers, including Convio and Salesforce, do the same thing. Convio is PCI Compliant.) And you want to keep it safe.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Where should they be prioritized in your nonprofit’s integrated marketing strategy? Consider the benefits and challenges of third-party and social giving sites before integrating them into your fundraising plan. How do you and your organization plan to address these up-and-coming trends?

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube, blogs, and a million other ways for your organization to get the word out and for people to have conversations about your organization and your mission. That's integrated marketing. Also, most major gifts don't happen out of the blue.

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MARCH 12, 2012

Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. You’ve probably noticed that many of us at Convio have been thinking and talking a lot about multichannel communication with constituents. As part of a broader CRM strategy, multichannel campaigns are critical for nonprofit organizations to be thinking about.

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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. At the highest level, it means the individual wants to see as much information as possible about the organization’s constituents – either individually, by segments, or as a whole.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Michelle Shefter. Word on the street is that acquiring new donors and then retaining them is getting more and more difficult and more and more expensive for nonprofit organizations. I signed up as a sustaining donor to an organization just a month before my card was due to expire. That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Guest blog alert: The following post is from Andy Streggles, chief operating officer and social strategist, for Convio technology partner , Higher Logic. AMS/CRM integration. I prefer the “size of organization” model, which attaches the platform cost to membership size or annual revenue.

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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. Hjc specializes in integrated fundraising, brand building, and campaigning. Whatever size of organization you work for, the chances are you could use some branding. Thanks for contributing Sheetal! Engagement.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. In part 1 of Mobilize Those Mobile Eyes , I wrote about the different facets of the mobile channel that your organization can use to engage your constituents. They are the folks who interface with the mobile carriers and ensure that your organization ultimately receives the donations.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Author: Sally Heaven. She mentioned a Convio summit session about raising money from your grassroots activists. I’m looking at YOU, grassroots organizers, and YOU, annual giving directors. Your activists are people who are engaged in the work of your organization and will want to support your work financially.

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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%. Key issues of integration included: Keep a consistent message in front of donors.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Judi is currently Vice President of Operations of Fight Colorectal Cancer , an organization she helped start in 2005. 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.

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JULY 1, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following blog post is by Kristin Sharpe at ACF Solutions , a Convio Solution Provider. One of the great things about Common Ground is that organizations have access to a whole array of innovative and easy to deploy tools available through the Salesforce AppExchange. Thanks for contributing Kristin!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Dennis McCarthy, Convio's VP of Strategy and Organizational Practice. This year’s winner of Best Integrated & Multi-Channel Campaign was The Trust for Public Land , an organization founded in 1972 to protect land for the public to enjoy as parks and public spaces.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you currently work in a nonprofit organization, or the corporate world for that matter, you've no doubt had a conversation in the past year about "generational differences" today. How likely is someone in Generation X going to donate to my organization? My main takeaway?

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MAY 3, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. I’ve worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on their technology challenges as they fulfill their global missions. Last year, IRD started an initiative focused on increasing awareness and support of their organization. Thanks for contributing Amy!

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JULY 16, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. And with such impressive growth in the world on online fundraising, nonprofit organizations are realizing the power of the Internet more and more with each passing day and looking for best practices to help leverage the Internet to raise funds. A new nonprofit online fundraising guide from Convio does just that.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Improve multichannel engagement/integration. And what about you – do you see your organization’s resolutions listed above or do you have another New Year focus area we should add to the list? Increase fundraising for participant-led events. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness.

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JUNE 14, 2011

Author: Jennifer Atkins. Because we’re immersed in “CRM” every day here at Convio , it occurred to me that we probably tend to get caught up in a vocabulary of terms that are foreign to most people. Constituents – In CRM, constituency means ALL people with a relationship to your organization.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. What that meant (or I thought would mean) was how CRM solutions and approaches are integrating social media and social networking data into their native functionality. This has always included a process of listening, recording, and organizing.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. Nonprofit organizations have room for improvement here. Nonprofit organizations have room for improvement here. 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.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The whole post, and especially the sentence "They are whole people who want to related to the causes they care about in multiple ways," resonated so much with the Convio team, that we just had to share this post with you. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did! So how to make this kind of merger work?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Author: Tad Druart. In my experience, too many organizations don’t take advantage of this “free money.” The key to their success is to integrate matching gifts into the gift processing routine. I'm honored to share this space today with Stephen Hafner of HEP Development Services.

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