Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Vinay continues to be a major thought leader in fundraising, and an inspiring colleague. The buzz in our biz is that you have made enormous strides over the years in the areas that count – client service, product usability, and bringing the promises of the salesforce and the realities of customerhood into an acceptable equlibirium.

Convio 100

Convio Open Product Service 100

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Writing fundraising copy, prepping for an audit, making sure the P&Ls and balance sheets all line up, juggling health insurance premiums…um, not so much with the love. I love data. I don’t hate it.

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Convio Cancer Org Data 164

Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

It has built-in functionality for Tribute/Personal Fundraising gift campaigns. For starters, it’s more in line with how I prefer to handle households in Salesforce (treating them as an account, rather than a custom object). Email messaging campaigns in Convio are mapped to Salesforce (not available in the connector I’m using).

Convio 100

Convio Database Tutorial Attitude 100

Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

It has built-in functionality for Tribute/Personal Fundraising gift campaigns. For starters, it’s more in line with how I prefer to handle households in Salesforce (treating them as an account, rather than a custom object). Email messaging campaigns in Convio are mapped to Salesforce (not available in the connector I’m using).

Convio 100

Convio Database Tutorial Attitude 100

Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

For teams that are tracking a year-long editorial and strategy calendar for fundraising campaigns? What about project management for teams that produce newsletters? For teams that are working on a conference or event? Not so much. . I've been whining about this in Twitter a bit. I've been asked to summarize my findings. . .

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Project Tools Management Online 147

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals. She got back to me quickly and said what we wanted to do sounded like a great fit for their Brandraising program.

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Cancer Phase Research Change 226

Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

For teams that are tracking a year-long editorial and strategy calendar for fundraising campaigns? What about project management for teams that produce newsletters? For teams that are working on a conference or event? Not so much. . I've been whining about this in Twitter a bit. I've been asked to summarize my findings. . .

Project 133

Project Tools Management Online 133

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals. She got back to me quickly and said what we wanted to do sounded like a great fit for their Brandraising program.

Cancer 100

Cancer Phase Research Change 100

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

A development director wants access to all individuals to target his/her fundraising efforts. A salesperson builds a relationship with the individual at the company they are trying to woo. A nonprofit typically has a very different ownership/sharing model.

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Model Data Classes Nonprofit 238

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

We use campaigns for so many purposes: Email, advocacy, events, straight fundraising. Now we can create roll-up summaries on the campaign, and we can create record types for campaign membership. With record types we can customize the page layout depending on the type of membership.

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Chart Org Contact Campaign 113

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Finally, I'm looking forward to the Convio Summit in Baltimore, October 25-27. This year there should hopefully be many more Common Ground users at the Summit to connect to than in the past.

Convio 100

Convio Pledge Contact Gift 100