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. We will award scholarships in the order requests are received (and information is verified).

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Connection Cafe

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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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

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Our call for Innovator nominations end this Friday, August 12th at midnight, so if you're a Convio client we really hope you will submit!

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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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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Debra Askanase , Idealware , and Convio included in the list. . Heads up: The 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards is on! 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. he thinks are worth reading.

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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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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Let's Get Local: Using Social Media in State and Local Campaigns , Ted Fickes. Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio , Clint O'Brien. How technology for nonprofits is like Alcatraz Island , James Howe. How to Tell A Compelling Nonprofit Story: Part 1 (#12NTC) , Nancy Schwartz.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Congrats again to All Hands Volunteers who recently received an Innovator Award for the Best CRM Visionary/Use of Common Ground. Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. Author: Lacey Kruger.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Thanks also to Vinay Bhagat at Convio for letting us use data from the new, soon to be released, 2008 Benchmark Study. Environmental $2.59

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See3

JANUARY 23, 2008

The page is their standard fundraising page (the kind you get with services such as Convio or Kintera). In the video he even points down to the donation form from his YouTube box, asking the viewer to donate right now to kick of the 2008 campaign activities. Watch it here: The here is this page on the MoveOn.org site.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

In our busy lives and work roles, we often complete one task, campaign or program and move right into the next one. On behalf of the Convio community congratulations on your success – it reflects the leadership, talent, creativity and passion of the people behind the cause. Job well done!

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

2009 was the first year of the contest, which was the brainchild of Gretchen Hoffman and Jane Kirchner in AFT’s Marketing department, and Julia Freedgood, Director of AFT's Growing Local Campaign. Plus, the effort has resulted in increased awareness of AFT's mission and helped garner new subscribers and donors. Why it's important.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Thanks also to Vinay Bhagat at Convio for letting us use data from the new, soon to be released, 2008 Benchmark Study. Environmental $2.59

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

So I’ve tapped the Casanovas of Convio for a whole array of ideas for sweeping your donors off their collective feet. Nominate them for awards. Run appreciation events, give awards or simply start a “shout-out” campaign via social media. The same is true for donors. Make them feel special.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. to 1% response rate for acquisition, so that “payback” (the point at which you recover what you invested in the direct mail campaign) is taking longer and longer to achieve.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

The interesting thing about this effort is that it’s not campaign-based, or a spurt of activity for a defined period of time, but actually an ongoing relationship that can continue to build over the long term, again defined by what is valuable to their supporters. Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. to 1% response rate for acquisition, so that “payback” (the point at which you recover what you invested in the direct mail campaign) is taking longer and longer to achieve.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

based nonprofits are faced with two extremes: on the one hand, there are large large players like Convio , Kintera , and Blackbaud and on the other hand there are smaller providers like DIA , FirstGiving , and NetworkForGood. I think the campaign or event idea itself is at least as important--if not more important--than the technology.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Andrew is a Senior Consultant on the Convio Strategy Team , who has been working to help make Convio clients successful for the past seven years. I wanted to take a moment to recognize one of the recent winners of Convio’s Innovator Awards – the National Partnership for Women and Families. Pretty nice, right?

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

By using Convio Common Ground and Convio Online Marketing together, RESOLVE has a complete view of constituent activity, and sends targeted messages to different audiences, ensuring they receive the right information and services at the right time. Check out the following top 5 client success stories of 2011: RESOLVE.

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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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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

” Campaigns & Landing Pages Next we created a separate AdWords campaign for each of our issue areas ? We divided our budget evenly between the campaigns, and created customized landing pages for each of them. Ive been trying things out with Convio for a year and a half now and I still have a lot more I want to try!

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MAY 27, 2009

Nonprofit: Monique shared a case study for a nonprofit called the Rasmuson Family Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the US, around increasing awareness of their Artists’ Award program. Political: I closed out by using an example from the 2008 presidential campaign—and no it wasn’t Barack Obama.

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Care2

APRIL 2, 2008

It should be noted, however, that while Google Adwords is one potential source of advertising for nonprofits, the volume of response from its campaigns to date have been lackluster. An article from SiteProNews , by Leighton James explains 10 costly mistakes to avoid when launching your AdWords campaign. Was it successful?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Oxfam ran a campaign against Starbucks with a video being crucial to the resulting success. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

And as Forest Ethics found when researching the anti-junk-mail campaign cited in the article Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? , When I first founded Convio back in 1999, I believed that direct mail was doomed and that money would flow online much faster. Forcing media tactics into the strategic realm makes no sense.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. " Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

I'm admittedly not a hardcore "gamer", so I was a little bit nervous when my good friend Joel Bartlett—Director of Marketing for PETA, winner of the 2009 Convio Innovator Award for Advocacy —asked me to moderate a session here at South by Southwest Interactive on "Games for Good". Author: Noah Cooper.

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MAY 4, 2009

Furthermore, according to the latest benchmarks study by Convio , enewsletters are one of the most “cost-effective ways to build relationships with new constituents, increase engagement, and educate supporters about your organization’s mission. The entire world seems to be fixated on Twitter and for good reason.

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