Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Today, Friday May 4, 2012, is my last day at Convio. In the end I decided to reflect on my favorite quote by Mahatma Gandhi, “be the change you wish to see in the world,” as I feel it encapsulates the Convio story very well. I believe Convio is emblematic of this model.

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Change Convio Adopt Hurricane 54

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009. Want to try out some fancy code?

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Tips Cancer Convio Listserv 29

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Some vendors have products that provide integration by having both the CRM and the CMS together. 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? All-in-one. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Integration API Drupal Open Source 100

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

And when formulas get complex we can finally add comments in the text to document what on earth we were thinking when we wrote them (also helps troubleshoot a complicated formula if parts can be commented out while testing). The hover help text has been great on custom fields to explain to users what data is expected in a field.

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Chart Org Contact Campaign 113

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

One thing I am not seeing, from our adwords, is conversion in terms of newsletter subscriptions (we dont sell products on our site). Its all about coming up with great ideas, and testing, testing, testing. Ive been trying things out with Convio for a year and a half now and I still have a lot more I want to try!

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Google Grant Social Media Adwords 37