Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

So last week I was hanging out at the Purple Couch at Convio's Austin headquarters with Emily Goodstein and Betsy Gressler and some other colleagues*. Convio's booth at NTEN was on Foursquare, and Marc Cannon at Convio ended up being the mayor of the Convio booth. Author: Sally Heaven. Not a lot right now, but some.).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Recession and slow recovery have reduced the total giving, more organizations are competing for constituent mindshare and walletshare , and there are proposals to reduce the charitable gift deduction and a rise in postal costs. ” Using your data to drive results is becoming a required method in direct response fundraising and marketing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Several organizations who use Convio's Advocacy product had a stimulating discussion yesterday here at the Convio Summit about online advocacy and what the future of the field is going to look like. Author: Sally Heaven. This could include sending letters to targets, or not.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

” Tabling, as defined by an informal survey of several of my favorite organizing buddies, is the act of standing behind or near a table in a conference setting to distribute branded swag, engage with conference attendees, and gather the names and contact information of constituents.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. Tt does bring in almost as many recruits as our edf.org sign up box, however, and we anticipate that it will become more competitive over time – possibly even our leading organic source of eFile recruits. Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Well have it available for download, soon.

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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. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2011

Guest blog alert: The following post is contributed by Mike Lingo, Chief Technology Officer and SVP, Professional Services at Astadia , a Convio Solution Provider. The cloud, at its core, presents a totally different method of working based on the abundance model. They know the organization well, and exude initiative.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How do you determine which technology, or set of technologies, will be best suited to your organization? Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. It also posted a host kit online that gave party volunteers the tools they needed to organize a party. Fundraising Events.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Well have it available for download, soon.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2011

Michelle let us know that congressional staffers have software to sort identical messages into buckets - and that the Hill prefers that you identify your organization when facilitating citizen comments. One of the key findings was that the delivery method doesn't matter so much as the content. Go figure.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The second calculator shows benchmark values from a recent study so that you can compare the performance of your names with those of other organizations working in the same field. Source: Convio; The Online Marketing (eCRM) Nonprofit Benchmark Index™ Study January 2007. Calculating the average one year value of an email. Discussion.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Tad Druart, Convio. While online fundraising continues to be a growth engine for many nonprofit organizations, the data -- real and anecdotal -- shows that engaging constituents through an integrated, multi-channel approach provides the greatest return over the life of most supporters. Integrate your people.

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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. 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. Why the number 52? Take Breaks.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This according to The North American Technographics® Omnibus Online Survey, Q4 2009 (US), a commissioned omnibus survey conducted by Forrester’s Technographics® on behalf of Convio. While social media was honestly lower than I expected, it does show that if we provide content and ideas it will help influence giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

There are some other methods you can use. Once an organization has implemented their first campaign, what should they do to improve the next campaign? SalesForce/Google AdWords Learning Center Google AdWords Learning Center Leveraging Google AdWords for Fundraising Convio Primer on SEO. Which Keyword Research Tool To Use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Online auction anecdote: He shared a story about an organization that had received a donation of toilet paper for an event 12 months before the event. The organization didn???t Unfortunately, the organization didn???t So, as a first step, organizations should be at least collecting mobile phone numbers in their databases.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2011

For most organizations, the majority of their public contributions are garnered via direct response campaigns. Namely, it is an easy method to categorize donors and track their performance. This method works stellar for segments that are solidly profitable or unprofitable. online) can be used in this RFMA method.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

“The majority of nonprofit marketing spend and tactics today are focused on mature donors, as they remain the mainstay of today’s charitable giving,” said Vinay Bhagat , chief strategy officer for Convio. Giving a check by mail is by far the most common giving method for Matures.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2010

Based on current trends as reported by Target Analytics and Convio, I think the typical organization will (or should) be raising at least 50% of its revenue from individuals via channels other than direct mail by 2016. Today, most organizations are less than 10%. The exact same thing is happening in fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Organizations that do this well are: Amazon.com, Hilton Hotels and Southwest Airlines. Nonprofits could learn quite a bit from these organizations in terms of these new rules of engagement that boil down to: Know Thy Constituent. will remove internal silos and help create a unique experience for people that engage with an organization.

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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. Riley's tomorrow night!

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