NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. We use Convio, Raiser’s Edge and Excel to manage our data and make it useful. Ask folks what they are interested in and use that information to change what you report about. Aimy Wiley, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. [Ed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Convio or Causes? More from the Convio Summit this week. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2011

One of NTEN's values is: We are a stage and a platform for your voices, ideas, and debates on technology-related issues that affect us all in our work. I take that to mean it's our job to make sure the entire nonprofit sector has access to the NTEN stage and can make use of it. That's voices , plural.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio , Clint O'Brien. Free Access to State Legislative Information Paves Way for Political Action , San Francisco Chronicle. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. Wake Me When NTEN's Over , Roger Craver.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Who needs a lot of data and background information and who needs us to cut to the chase. Of course, this post has nothing to do with this little Convio campaign. Here are some other bloggers that are writing their nonprofit resolutions at Convio’s invitation: Beaconfire Wire. Convio Summit. Nope, just coincidence.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2011

This is a plea to get as many people as possible to take the NTEN CMS Survey. One of the things I do as Convio’s CMS Evangelist is spend a lot of time thinking about how to help nonprofit organizations use web based technology better. So, help your colleagues and help yourself, take a few minutes to take the NTEN CMS Survey.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In preparation for your end-of-year campaigns, NTEN has devoted September to talking about fundraising. You can always count on Philip King from Artez Interactive , to bring you some great information in his podcast series. I thought I'd do my part with a few of 2010's best resources (so far). We recommend episode 11. Oh, you don't?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Each of the past couple of years our friends over at NTEN have released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. If you’re not a member of NTEN, you might want to take the time to join as well. Author: Tad Druart. They want to find out how well your systems work together.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To start things off, I'm happy to announce today's member receiving an NTEN give-away, a free NTEN Webinar: Thank you, Don Montesi ! Your work and your NTEN membership make us proud, and we'd like to celebrate that by sending you a coupon for a free NTEN webinar. Check your email.)

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). Morant Information Systems. Symphony Information Services. Metafile Information Systems. Metafile Information Systems.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

What an incredible line up of panels the folks at NTEN programmed for the 10th annual NTC - scheduled for April 8th - 10th in Atlanta. Panelists: Andrew Magnuson, Convio and Matthew Mielcarek, Convio. The Generational Divide of American Giving Time: 10:30 AM. The Trouble with Slacktivism. Time: 10:30 AM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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? Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Will they continue in that direction? 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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Forum One

MAY 4, 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. Overall, the report is well done and shows the information in a visually appealing manner (I’ll admit that I took a few extra copies!).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Conference sessions are always great and full of tons of information. Three days of workshops, sessions, networking events and yes, BBQ from the Salt Lick (shout out to NTEN's Brett Meyer and his mad eating skills), left attendees ready to put their new learnings to action. Hands-on Workshops for attendees.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The donation page required a user to create a log-in profile, so CC also collected information about party guests as potential new donors or volunteers. Then CC also provided interest cards that guests could complete if they wanted more information. The interest card was a second way for CC to collect information about party guests.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

It's probably the easiest calculation you can make that still produces valuable information for your organization. Here at NTEN, we find it valuable to keep track of both numbers. Every e-mail marketer worth her salt knows how to calculate an overall messaging open rate: messages opened ÷ messages delivered. to 65 and dividing by 2.

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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. Understand how information overload might be effecting you and take a break to assess and rethink. Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Get a memory upgrade.

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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. More information here. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). What are NTEN, TechSoup, and Idealware saying about the solutions? Make an informed decision. Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Do some reading, too.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Your organization may already use a traditional CRM like Convio, Blackbaud, or Salesforce to track and maintain information about your members. It's going to be a fun, informative and interactive session that you won't want to miss. At a very high level, the "CRM" in "Social CRM" stands for "Customer Relationship Management."

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To meet those goals we needed to be able to count the number of shares and capture the information of people sharing. Convio , our CMS, has an easy embedding tool for YouTube. Tags: jaime-alexis fowler Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Do you want people to be able to embed your video?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2011

As the (relatively) new Convio Account Manager for our Broadcasting clients my primary focus was to absorb as much as I could about the Public Media goals and interests, as well as spend some quality time with my clients in attendance (my manager might add to not get too far behind on my other work).

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

FarmingFirst has also done a nice job packing a lot of information into a small space with some dynamic code. Oh, and: Convio has a new " Online Fundraising Guide ", too. Want to make your email templates bullet proof (like Neo at the end of The Matrix , since we're getting all metaphorical about code)? They make learning fun!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Amy VanWyngarden, Convio. You need to make an informed decision about which type of event to host so that your investment will yield a favourable return. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Peer-to-peer fundraising events are growing in popularity - and rightfully so! This is one case in which one size does not fit all.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Unlike credit card companies, airlines or any number of other consumer-oriented businesses, nonprofits today still depend largely on employees to manually integrate all information about each constituent for marketing purposes.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Tad Druart, Convio. These individuals are getting their information from multiple sources. Radio and telemarketing campaigns can also champion the online medium by reminding constituents of the wealth of information available on an organization's website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2009

I heard that Amazon is now offering Amazon Payments for nonprofits, so thought I’d check out their Product Spotlight session at NTEN’s NTC. Convio’s Dave Hart also was there, showing how Convio’s working on integrating Amazon Payments into its next major product release. It’s pretty cool.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The movement is being led by Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge - which is proudly sponsored by Convio. Thanks in part to Convio, Social Actions will be offering $10,000 in prize money to developers who create rock star apps - with winners announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference in late April.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog. Gary Vaynerchuk puts a different spin on the "noise.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

Yet, more than half of these prospects and donors do not believe nonprofit websites are providing the information they need to make a gift. 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?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

So today, thanks to the Webby Awards, we get to stop and say well done and congratulations to three members of the Convio community who are nominees for the 13th Annual Webby Awards : In the activism category both Rock the Vote and Protect and Acre (Conservation International) have been nominated. Job well done!

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

This information is critical to understanding how, when, and why to reach them. Where do they hang out online – Facebook, MiGente, or Black Planet? What blogs do they read? Do they read blogs at all? What do they care about, listen to, and hate? It will also help to build a bridge of understanding between your organizations.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. Every quarter, our data analyst, Mathew Grimm, emails out a report of every list source and how they're performing.

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