Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

With new goodies from Salesforce like Apex, summary fields and cross-object formulas, it’s becoming clear to me that we should consider moving away from the legacy Individual bucket account. At this point, there are two very different paths we can take: the new Nonprofit Starter pack from Salesforce, or Convio Common Ground.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Debra Askanase , Idealware , and Convio included in the list. . Read her summary and takeaways. For more summary of the Nonprofit2.0 Unconference where Beth did some learning at, see the summary Allyson Kapin provides over on the Care2 Frogloop blog. For more summary of the Nonprofit2.0 Wendy's Keynote. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2009

The third annual Convio Benchmark Study was released earlier this week, and I had the opportunity to sit down with Vinay to discuss the high-level results. To read the executive summary of the 2009 Benchmark Study, go to www.convio.com/benchmark09_blog. There is a silver lining for nonprofits as the economy recovers.

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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. Is three a crowd?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Jordan Viator ( Convio ) weighs in: Seth Godin took nonprofits to task on their (as he argued) lack of penetration into the social media sphere. Jordan writes a great summary of the debate this kicked off, and her own thoughts about the issue. Deadline ends September 30th !

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2011

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. PS For more live SXSW news you can use, follow @Convio and the #sxsw hashtag on Twitter. This is one YouTube video we really hope you will try at home.

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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.)

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio , Clint O'Brien. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins. , Ben Teoh. 5 (RAD)Takeaways from 12NTC , Avi Kaplan. 6 Nonprofit Technology Takeaways and One Killer Find from #12NTC , Frank Barry. 7 Thoughtful Take-Aways from My #12NTC , Robert Rosenthal.

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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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NTEN

DECEMBER 4, 2009

If you want to get a good summary of that NYC panel, however, read Farra Trompeter 's guest-post on the Care2 Frogloop blog about Multi-Channel Fundraising, with a special eye towards this end-of-year fundraising season. Thanks for including the NTC , Allyson!).

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Convio is one of the featured companies at the first-ever Austin Interactive Showcase at SxSW as one of "16 Austin companies to showcase the interactive brain power and technology innovation" of the popular media conference's host city. Read the report for tips on doing it right.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

Hopefully their answers, paired with our summaries, will help you make attendance at your favorite conference a reality the next time around. Stacey was recipient of an Nonprofit Technology Conference scholarship sponsored by Convio and pictured is here. Live from SXSW! Innovation in Nonprofits.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Thanks also to Vinay Bhagat at Convio for letting us use data from the new, soon to be released, 2008 Benchmark Study. How do you compare?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2011

As I’m sure most of you realize, we at Convio are big fans of Salesforce and they’re doing some pretty amazing stuff to pull in this new social graph into CRM. Check out their Klout score to see their influence summary. Interested in checking how much influence someone has one social networks?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

In addition to tuning up your email signup forms, develop a solid relationship with your email marketing vendor (Convio, Blackbaud, ConstantContact, Vertical Response) and check in with them when you spot unusually high hard bounce rates. Hard Bounce Rate = # emails not delivered/# emails sent.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Thanks also to Vinay Bhagat at Convio for letting us use data from the new, soon to be released, 2008 Benchmark Study. How do you compare?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Here's a summary of the lifetime value per email from different issue areas, based on a recent benchmark study and assuming the 50% of the emails on each list go inactive each year. Source: Convio; The Online Marketing (eCRM) Nonprofit Benchmark Index™ Study January 2007. Total donations. Average annual value. Annual donations.

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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. My grade is 100 which means that my account scores higher than 100.0 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

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. And if you???re

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. 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. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2009

Along with some wonderful colleages from Convio, Event 360 and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council , I attempted to do some research that answered the question, "how can you raise more money with your event?". The rest of this post will only be a summary of the research. And we found some good stuff. It's worth the effort, trust me!

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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. The Last Membership date field below is just a roll-up summary field). Tagged: Common Ground , Convio , CRM , Salesforce. I have a confession.

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

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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

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. Huge for member-based organizations. 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. 2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07 at 9:24 am Excellent summary. Blackbaud has done other acquisitions in the past.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2009

Here's a quick summary, but be sure to check out the full video — there's tons of great information packed into 4 minutes! If you’re a Convio client, check out this short YouTube extension demo on how you can easily and seamlessly integrate YouTube video into your online campaigns, websites and other online communications.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. Keep these in mind when the powers to be here start pushing SL again. [.] Read the rest of this great post here [.]

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After the acquisition of Convio, the combined team evaluated our full product portfolio. As a summary: Before March 31, 2014, we will work with each Common Ground customer to support their migration to another solution. In light of its viability in this market, why did you choose to retire this particular product?

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

May 27, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski Thanks for the great summary of our session, Heather! It was an honor to participate. Cheryl Contee [link] twitter: ch3ryl May 27, 2009 | Cheryl Contee Great post Heather! Fantastic information and timely too. It seems like there are quite a few gaffs out there (see "Nine Worst Social Media fails of 2009.

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