Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Guest panelists Nakia and Daniel along with Convio team member, Jen , shared research and first hand experiences, mostly focusing on Jumo, Crowdrise and Causes but also discussing general best practices for social media - fundraising sites or otherwise. View more presentations from Convio. Can you leverage existing content?

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New York City Convio New York Summary 44

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. Jordan writes a great summary of the debate this kicked off, and her own thoughts about the issue.

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Nptech NTEN Jordan Summary 50

Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2011

But you can't just wake up and say "today our organization is going to start being innovative." Randy Moss , co-author of The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive in the Digital Age , gave Convio the two-minute summary of his SxSW session on innovation in nonprofits.

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Austin Convio Summary Structure 31

NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

Thank you Convio and Sea Change Strategies for helping conduct and produce this report. Also, thanks to Jocelyn Harmon for writing up her summary and take-aways. Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesomeonline, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) " Read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. You can read a 2-page summary here. 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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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2011

Whether the C in CRM is a constituent, customer, client; or not even a “C” (a donor, volunteer, foundation, partner, affiliate, etc), the core activity is using a system to organize the interactions and data that you have with or about that entity. This has always included a process of listening, recording, and organizing.

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Social Music Influence Interaction 33

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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email Benchmark Measure Advocacy 56

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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Advocacy Social Media email Online 44

NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Typical issues causing unsubscribes include: recipient no longer interested in your organization, emailing too frequently, emailing inappropriate content to a subscriber (e.g Monitoring your annual churn rate and the unsubscribe rate on each email helps with mid-course corrections. Hard Bounce Rate = # emails not delivered/# emails sent.

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Metrics email Campaign Rate 53

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. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. In fact, they are the future.

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Web API Open Source NTEN 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. On Twitter, your organization should have a personality. percent of the 714018 users that have been graded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2009

If you work for one of the many organizations who have a special fundraising event of the run-walk-ride variety, you'll want to read this post. To find the answer to that, we looked to you, your organizations, and your events. The rest of this post will only be a summary of the research. And we found some good stuff.

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Money Raise Metrics Rate 20

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. You can download the entire guide , but here is my summary of the information – really download the guide.

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Research Online Giving Influence 31

Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2012

One of my fears when I left Fight Colorectal Cancer to join Convio is that I would lose my hands-on experience in Salesforce. That I would get too much distance from the day-to-day of actually using Salesforce/Common Ground at an organization. The Last Membership date field below is just a roll-up summary field).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Huge for member-based organizations. Now we can create roll-up summaries on the campaign, and we can create record types for campaign membership. As far as development changes go, I can’t wait to see what the folks at Convio can do for Common Ground with this update. Makes the campaign object extremely powerful.

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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. And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). 2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07

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Open Source Blackbaud Time Fundraising 100

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2009

Ramya Raghavan, Nonprofits and Activism Manager at YouTube™, recently shared with our Connection newsletter readers a video explaining the five kinds of content that nonprofit organizations might consider creating this year and cites examples of organizations who have executed these types of “recipes” well.

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YouTube Vlog Summary Offline 20

See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

If you are a small organization, you won’t get that traffic. Thanks for the summary. Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. HSUS is now getting 200 friend requests/day.

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America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After the acquisition of Convio, the combined team evaluated our full product portfolio. We see a group of organizations adopting the platform – a psychographic more than a demographic, in this case. As a summary: Before March 31, 2014, we will work with each Common Ground customer to support their migration to another solution.

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Blackbaud Product Integration Platform 29

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

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) Here are a few examples.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59