Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

This article was originally posted on Connection Café at [link] by Jordan Viator: Jordan Viator is the Interactive Communications Manager at Convio, and manages the Connection Cafe blog, all things new and social media related and all the company's corporate Web sites. guest blogging nptech.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Convio Nonprofit Technology Bash 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm BD Riley's (204 E 6th St) Convio proudly presents the first-ever SXSW nonprofit technology bash, featuring Social Actions and the celebrity judges of their Change the Web Challenge. The panel will be moderated by Jeff Pulver and Tikva Morowati.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Allan Benamer reported on the Security breach at Convio on November 4. Last week, he wrote a post about some suggested security guidelines, also noting that only four out of 92 organizations affected had disclosed it to their subscribers. Today, TechSoup alerted it's email subscriber. Go here to read. Go here to ask questions.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Convio is offering to match the dollars raised up to $10,000. And of course, Holly took that idea and put together an innovative special fundraising drive to bring more folks to the NTC: they're going to raise $10,000 for an NTC Scholarship fund by February 28. And, you can donate miles too. (I

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MARCH 25, 2008

Via the Convio blog, " Can Money Buy Happiness " points to some research from Harvard Business School and the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia , that suggests that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Photo by Emarquetti.

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APRIL 30, 2008

Hat Tip Jordan V at Convio ) He has dogbook on his profile featuring his yellow lab, Tana. Finally, Beth Finke, a staffer at Easter Seals, writes the Safe and Sound Blog (Congrats on your award !) (Hat

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MARCH 25, 2008

Convio , Sea Change Strategies and Edge Research asked 3,000 donors from 32 nonprofit organizations about their online behaviors and preferences. What was surprised me was they came from people we didn't already have on our radar (yep, we've cultivated them since).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Steve MacLaughlin and Claudia from Convio were kind enough to each send me a review copy of this new book on fundraising and social networks called People To People Fundraising. That let's me keep one for my bookshelf and give away the second copy. So, here's how this book giveaway is going to work.

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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.

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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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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?

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JANUARY 20, 2009

writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Michelle Murrain. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Jordan Viator. Deborah Finn. is the woman behind the hilarious lolnptech spoof.

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JUNE 1, 2009

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. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. I have it on video). I'll look forward to hearing a report.

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JANUARY 18, 2007

I stopped for yet another a latte on the way home, checked my treo and discovered this email from Ryan at PicNet about the big news in the Nonprofit Technology World -- Convio Buys GetActive. Convio says it plans to integrate GetActive???s s management will take key roles in the Convio organization. GetActive???s

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. So, here's some quick points about how nonprofits should consider using Twitter if they want to be effective.

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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. The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter Focus Group: Jordan V from Convio calls Twitter an unofficial focus group! Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." " Social Butterfly views Twitter as a great brainstorming tool.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In the words of Vinay Bhagat, CEO of Convio : “Donors increasingly prefer online channels. Early Boomers are pretty tech savvy, and have been using the Internet as a communications, ecommerce, and research tool for over 15 years.

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JUNE 28, 2007

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. Self SEO Boris Mordkovich's Keyword Advice. Ten Tips for Getting Started with Google AdWords. Which Keyword Research Tool To Use.

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OCTOBER 21, 2005

Get Active (best for advocacy, easiest to use email tool) Kintera (big program and lots of features are not necessarily used) Convio (fundraising) Blackbaud. Vendors: Recommendations on which one depend on organization???s Other tools like, ???Constant Constant contact??? can be good for smaller email lists. For transactions, there are ???just

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NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read.

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APRIL 20, 2012

Convio , along with CAREUSA , recently completed Insights into Integrated Marketing Constituent Behavior to further the thinking and dialog around integrated marketing.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Thanks to Convio , NTEN will waive the registration fees for up to 57 attendees. Every dollar of your gift will be matched by Convio, up to $10,000. So, NTEN has set up a scholarship fund and has been actively fundraising, asking for cash and frequent flyer donations: Give to the Scholarship Fund. Donate Airline Miles.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Fundraising and advocacy management tools like Convio use dashboards to display campaign status. Many customer relationship management systems, for example, like Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge , include dashboards to make it easier for the development staff to track fundraising activities, donations, and other performance measures.

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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. The deal was if she raised the $10,000, the community could vote on her public humiliation.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

50 Social Media Content Ideas from Convio. I also keep a brainstorm file of different ideas and use these posts to trigger ideas for “Ever Green Content,” content I post anytime. I keep these ideas in a google document, but some folks swear by evernote. 20 Different Formats by Pro Blogger.

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MARCH 20, 2009

James Young, who works for Convio and was on the panel writes : I came away from the experience with a clear message, that it all starts with one person deciding to act. James Young, from Convio, spoke about these types of campaigns on the panel. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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