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Google needs to stop treating support like it’s an add-on feature

Judi Sohn

Even though I work for Convio, Common Ground gets no special treatment. We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. But if my blog vanished tomorrow I know I could get help directly from Automattic. The group is completely independent.

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. Blog Posts and Other Resources. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles.

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5 Tips for Mobile

Connection Cafe

The following blog post is by Michael Sabat. 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 a mobile list now.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. Twitter Is Not A Billboard and It's Not All About You. Here's how.

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NTC Boston: Brian Reich: Online Fundraising Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get Active (best for advocacy, easiest to use email tool) Kintera (big program and lots of features are not necessarily used) Convio (fundraising) Blackbaud. t Spam regulations ??? t spam work. Did it get passed into a spam folder. 35% of email goes into spam filter, most people don???t t check spam filters.

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise.

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. When I first founded Convio back in 1999, I believed that direct mail was doomed and that money would flow online much faster. Whats the saying: Time waits for no man.

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