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APRIL 2, 2012

Author: Karoline McLaughlin. Here at AFP International in the spectacular northwest city of Vancouver, BC, it’s evident from the conference sessions I’ve attended so far that with the economy seemingly back on an upward trajectory, fundraising is also heading in that direction. All roads are heading north! in four years.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Author: Convio is coming to a city near you! Convio is setting up shop in a city near you—a workshop to be specific. The workshop will be highlighting best practices in marketing, fundraising and constituent relationship management (CRM). Come one, come all! Are you hungry? We have breakfast!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2012

Author: Jennifer Atkins. Social Fundraising. Keeping your email list alive and kicking is one of the keys to a successful online marketing program. It's critical to develop a sound strategy for growing and maturing your house file and to always incorporate best practices in your day-to-day management.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Author: Lacey Kruger. Since consolidating their data into Convio Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has developed more effective communications. They’ve created multiple fundraising and email campaigns that are personalized for specific segments of their housefile. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

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MARCH 19, 2012

Author: Emily Goodstein. Today’s "Behind the Convio Admin Curtain" installment is full of juicy Convio best practices, and even a restaurant recommendation for stellar chocolate chip pancakes right outside Boston. PS—We call ourselves Convions, but I’ll take Convio-ers too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Katrin Verclas is the visionary founder of MobleActive and the nonprofit expert on mobile technology for activism, fundraising, and program delivery. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 and Lindy Dryer work with associations to help them integrate social media. Deborah Finn.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2011

Author: Kent Gilliam. Kent Gilliam is the Convio Community Manager. Be sure to follow him and keep in touch with other Community members, download free kits and sign up for free trainings and webinars here (for Convio clients only). Ensure you integrate your messaging with other functions. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Author: Taylor Shanklin. How can I integrate social media marketing efforts with other channels? Social media has still not quite yet proven itself to be the best fundraiser. P.S. Scan this QR code for a special thank you message from Convio. Everyone is talking about social media these days.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. That's integrated marketing. Finally, there's an interesting series of blog posts on the blog Passionate Giving that makes the case that nonprofits owe it to their donors to analyze the cost of major gift fundraising and to do it as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Third-party fundraising sites : The next generation of social media for social good has arrived. Where should they be prioritized in your nonprofit’s integrated marketing strategy? New year, new trends. Here’s what to keep your eye on for the coming year.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Mobile Commons is a Convio partner and they have just launched Mobile Advocate - A new product integrated with Convio Luminate and designed to drive targeted advocacy phone calls from the web or SMS. Integrate your mobile database with Convio other CRM. Build mobile into a campaign.

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MAY 27, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. Key issues of integration included: Keep a consistent message in front of donors.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Author: Kent Gilliam. Are you attending Convio's 2011 Summit? We hope you'll at least come by and say "hi" and meet the faces behind those Convio voices and emails that you know. ” After grabbing a bite to eat, swing by and learn about Convio's DIY online workshop and how we can help you achieve great results in less time.

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JULY 7, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Sheetal Persaud at hjc New Media , a Convio partner in Canada. Hjc specializes in integrated fundraising, brand building, and campaigning. And yes we know that BEGS is funny – us being fundraisers and all!) Do we hire people with these qualities as fundraisers?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Dennis McCarthy, Convio's VP of Strategy and Organizational Practice. This year’s winner of Best Integrated & Multi-Channel Campaign was The Trust for Public Land , an organization founded in 1972 to protect land for the public to enjoy as parks and public spaces.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Author: Sally Heaven. I was talking with my pal Michelle Shefter the other day about online advocacy and fundraising. She mentioned a Convio summit session about raising money from your grassroots activists. So go forth and integrate. I said: “That’s so old school. I’m here to tell you to stop that!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Michelle Shefter. As your trusty product manager for the Convio Luminate Online Fundraising solution , I’m here to let you know that if you are a Convio Luminate Online user – good news! Better integration of online/offline sustainer management. More data on which gifts are failing, and why.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Author: Jill Ward. Reprinted from Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Convio Connection : interview with Dave Hart, Chief Technology Officer, Convio. For simplicity sake, let’s group the needs into three main categories: online marketing, constituent relationship management, and integrated marketing. What keeps them up at night

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Kivi Leroux Miller and originally appeared as "Blending Marketing and Fundraising into Community Engagement Teams" on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog on July 6. ” Marketing and fundraising are two different things. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did!

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MAY 3, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. building a fundraising organization to supplement their traditional government funding. The final solution includes the following components: Convio Common Ground. Itegration between Common Ground and IRD’s existing Convio Online Marketing ools. Thanks for contributing Amy!

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APRIL 9, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. In today's NTEN NTC session "The Generational Divide of American Giving" Andrew Magnuson and Matthew Mielcarek, Nonprofit Consultants, discussed the recent research published by Convio , Edge Research and SeaChange Strategies on the Next Generation of American Giving. My main takeaway? So what does this all mean?

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. 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.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Increase fundraising for participant-led events. Improve multichannel engagement/integration. And, based on your feedback, the top five areas of focus for nonprofit resolutions in 2010 are: Reconnect with donors by giving new options of engagement. Evaluate your website’s effectiveness.

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JUNE 14, 2011

Author: Jennifer Atkins. Because we’re immersed in “CRM” every day here at Convio , it occurred to me that we probably tend to get caught up in a vocabulary of terms that are foreign to most people. This process is incredibly important when it comes to integrating your CRM with other applications in your ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Author: Alan Cooke. For example, Convio client Environmental Defense Fund ( [link] ) started out as an advocacy organization focused on preventing the use of DDT. The 2009 Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Study contains some good data on this synergy. Particularly if it makes sensational copy, one might add.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Author: Tad Druart. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Guest blog alert : The following post was contributed by Donna Wilkins of Charity Dynamics , a Convio Solution Provider. When Cheryl and I first started talking about topics for this post we discussed that there’s a lot of interest in integrated marketing. Thanks for contributing Donna!

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JUNE 4, 2010

Author: Jill Ward. Single channel direct mail is on the decline and digital fundraising is rapidly increasing. Based on current trends as reported by Target Analytics and Convio, I think the typical organization will (or should) be raising at least 50% of its revenue from individuals via channels other than direct mail by 2016.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Author: Blair Naylor. By using Convio Common Ground and Convio Online Marketing together, RESOLVE has a complete view of constituent activity, and sends targeted messages to different audiences, ensuring they receive the right information and services at the right time. New York Public Library. Project On Government Oversight.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Author: Karoline McLaughlin. After the acquisition of Convio, the combined team evaluated our full product portfolio. For fundraising and CRM products serving small- to mid-sized nonprofits, this meant looking at Common Ground, eTapestry, and The Raiser's Edge. It is at an earlier stage than our other two products.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Author: Tad Druart. With that great online success, does direct mail still have a future in fundraising? Research shows that direct mail is alive and well and has an important fundraising future. Online giving is increasing; remember $6 billion was estimated to have been donated online during the 2010 holiday season.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Author: Blair Naylor. Needed a more seamless, integrated database that allowed them to enter donations and send acknowledgements quickly. Needed an easier way to track and report on grants, prgrams, constituents and fundraising activities. We have added a new client success story our arsenal!

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. For the most part, what holds true in the for-profit sector carries over to the nonprofit sector as well – a seamless, integrated engagement experience that feels as though it has been personalized for me. Integrated Interaction. Call it integrated. We are, each and every one of us, consumers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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