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MAY 19, 2008

.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# What do you think?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The combination of Orange Leap and The Guru are a web-based CRM/DMS and reporting system aimed squarely at Salesforce.com and Convio Common Ground. But I’m afraid they are going to be squeezed to a pulp between the behemoths of salesforce.com and Convio, on one hand, and the strong, vibrant open source community of CiviCRM on the other.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Monday morning, way, way too early: Convio Partner Breakfast. Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Sunday evening: Science Fair and reception. Monday Morning:Clay Shirky’s Plenary, and the debut of Holly’s version of “Put a ring on it.&# I can’t wait!

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MARCH 20, 2008

Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) They released their Convio/Salesforce connector on Salesforce.com AppExchange. at 6:40 pm Thanks Michelle for the Convio props! MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. They also launched their blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days. Of course, it’s only a study of Convio’s clients – but it’s interesting nonetheless. { I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities.

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JULY 25, 2008

Is this a bad thing? Myspace is going with OpenID ! That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich?

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MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) And how will Convio react? Will they continue in that direction? It will be interesting to watch what happens with Kintera, and especially, what happens with their APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Another note: I’ll talk about this in detail later, but Salesforce also includes the new Salesforce.com app, Common Ground, by Convio. From what I can tell (I’m learning a lot more fairly quickly) integrating Common Ground with a CMS should be pretty much the same process as integrating Salesforce.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

His name is Matt McCabe, and he is very familiar with the nonprofit fundraising space, having spent time as a consultant at Convio. MPower announced today that they are hiring a new VP of community.

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JULY 30, 2008

Allan Benamer talks about Convio’s new big client, Susan G. Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 and social network guru for the nptech community. I trust Allan’s gut instincts about CRM technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. SOX First, which is a new blog to me, and focuses on Sarbanes-Oxely compliance, asks whether nonprofits hold the ethical high ground. Their answer: they may well be losing ground. What are “influencers?&#

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JANUARY 14, 2009

The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? But so far Convio on top of Salesforce is the only publicly visible player in that space. 3 sudha 01.15.09 9 Joe Gram 01.22.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. Among those surveyed, 4 of the top 5 tools in terms of satisfaction were open source (or sort of open source) tools. The only other tool in the top 5 was Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. I believe eTapestry runs on a database package called Versant. Constant Contact (a SaaS provider of email delivery) uses IBM DB2. I absolutely agree with your call for more openness. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Proprietary CMS as part of a large package (such as from Convio or Blackbaud). On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host). Proprietary stand-alone CMS (such as Sharepoint.).

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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 Blackbaud has done other acquisitions in the past. And, I’m sure there are more to come.

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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. It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it. 9 admin 09.22.07

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