Care2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

There’s a broad spectrum of savvy among nonprofits in social media – organizations of all sizes, some just starting out, some with programs under way but still making the case to stakeholders, and many with years of planning and successful execution under their belts.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

As the Membership Director at NTEN , and as a speaker at this year’s SXSW Interactive , I hope to be able to connect with all of you that may be coming to Austin for the festival or based in the Austin area. I’ll be joined by NTEN’s Community Manager, Sarah Janczak, too. Connect with NTEN.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Earlier this fall, Convio released its " Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Benchmark Study ," based on a look at 48 organizations using Convio's TeamRaiser to manage fundraising events. You can find the complete study online here. They recently released an infographic to illustrate some of the key benchmarks.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2012

Every year, the NTEN community raises $10,000 – generously matched by Convio ! – This year, the NTEN staff was bound and determined to make it happen on our own. We organized a bake sale , tried mining for bitcoin , and last week, we held our first Bowl-a-Thon.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . nonprofits, and we're happy to see NTEN members. Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Thanks, Convio! include NTEN member organization Idealist.org. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. (A The most recent announcement is from Convio, which launched Convio Open.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

As the reports come in, I’ll organize them by continent. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. All the reports currently listed are based on U.S. Thank you. View: All Blackbaud Reports.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. " Unfortunately, no one from NTEN will be in-person at the event, but Holly will be Skype -ing in for a session. One of those session is a panel featuring NTEN's Annaliese. Here's a list of where we'll be and where we want to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Working with the folks over at NTEN , we decided the nonprofit community itself should be empowered to recognize the people of their choice to win none other than a membership to the best nonprofit technology organization around, The Nonprofit Technology Network! Tags: 09ntc nten.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Judy Hallman , organizer for the 501 Tech Club in the Triangle , N.C. Tags: community buzz nten members.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Judy Hallman , organizer for the 501 Tech Club in the Triangle , N.C. Tags: community buzz nten members.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). " Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

If you work at an organization with a budget under $1 million and you would like to join us April 3-5 in San Francisco , we invite you to apply today! > One of our core beliefs here at NTEN is that we are only as strong as our community. The icing on the cake is that it's you, the NTEN community, who support each other so well!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

(Note: I've changed up the format slightly to frame these round-ups around your success stories, your stories about working on "getting things right" on your job and with your organization with the help of technology. Tag your posts and news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help me find your stories online!).

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

(Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharingtheir nptech awesome. Thank you Convio and Sea Change Strategies for helping conduct and produce this report. Tags: community buzz nten members. Members are in bold. Did she miss anything you'd suggest we all add? " Read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.* That shows the community considers NTEN of great value. Convio is offering to match the dollars raised up to $10,000. Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

Organizations use this tool to track donors, send out newsletters, track the success of campaigns, track who is engaged with the organization in what ways, etc. Two of them (Convio and Blackbaud) are even publicly traded companies, which says a lot about the profit potential of this vertical. Net/MS SQL Server.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

More at NTEN. Last Monday, November 19, TechSoup learned that it was one of the organizations affected by the Convio/GetActive break-in, in which hackers stole email addresses and passwords of subscribers to various nonprofit newsletters. Here's Allan's commentary.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Tad Druart, Convio. Anecdotally and intuitively, you know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in your engagement with donors, volunteers, event participants and other people your organization relies on to fulfill your mission. The study suggests that peers will play a bigger role in influencing donations.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Long time NTC supporter Convio is hosting two breakfasts at the NTC: one for partner organizations, and one on their CMS. Send your name, organization, and phone number, and which breakfast(s) you'd like to attend: Introducing: The Convio Solution Partner Program. Tags: 09NTC convio NPTech.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Convio and Social Actions worked together to launch the Change the Web Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Well, the Nonprofit Technology Conference is an amazing experience every year: people from all kinds of organizations, all kinds of backgrounds, and with all kinds of passion, joining together to talk about how we can use technology to make even more social impact – it’s just my kind of community! It’s not too late!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 16, 2009

09 NTENnies At Large (Blackbaud's Chad Norman, and Convio's Jordan Viator) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I've been a proud member of the Nonprofit Technology community since, yikes, 1993 and a part of NTEN/NTC community since the early days. The NTC also provides scholarship assistance to those nonprofit techies whose organizations are facing budget hardships. This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference will be my 11th one. .

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Flickr: bensheldon Allyson Kapin summarizes some key findings from Convio 's 2009 Online Marketing Benchmark Inex Study , and cites some analysis by Superstar NTEN member Robert Weiner. Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. That's why we asked you to help us write the book about it !

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NetWits

APRIL 12, 2013

NTEN and M&R also released their report, the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The 2013 Blackbaud Online Benchmark Report (formerly The Convio Online Benchmark Report ) is in its seventh year started by Convio’s Founder, Vinay Bhaghat. Given the breadth of the data points, you may ask yourself what should I read?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You know that organization. The fine folks at Convio recognize the problem and want to give these great orgs a leg up this holiday season. The fine folks at Convio recognize the problem and want to give these great orgs a leg up this holiday season. Tags: convio hero member. So what are you waiting for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

For example, my colleague Shai Coggins from Connecting Up (the Australian version of NTEN), who always brings me Tim-Tams. This prize will be given annually to an organization that leverages networks. Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff, was the recipient. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday morning: NTEN Board meeting. Monday morning, way, way too early: Convio Partner Breakfast. Monday 1:30: So you want to be a consultant … ( Robert Weiner is organizing a great group of consultant types, including me.). Tags: Nonprofit Tech 09ntc civicrm nptech nten penguinday. I can’t wait! .&#

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Member Appreciation 2011 NTEN Member Appreciation Month is still going strong! Each week, we're recognizing three NTEN Members who participate in MAM activities (find out more about how you can win here ). Each week, we're recognizing three NTEN Members who participate in MAM activities (find out more about how you can win here ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 apps out there.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

That was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!" A study for non-profits | Think Social – "Two weeks ago, Mashable posted a how-to for non-profit organizations trying to use Google Buzz. " What can Google Buzz do for you?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset. An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. NTEN www.nten.org/blog.

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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. What does “better” mean? Does the site look professional?

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