Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

And, as you may know, every year, NTEN tries to raise $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the conference who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! We’ll contact winners and arrange for payment then.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Tad Druart, Convio. That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. While direct mail remains viable the impact over the long-term will diminish, particularly without integration with other communications, marketing and fundraising channels. " Duh," Tad Druart's daughter.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Long time NTC supporter Convio is hosting two breakfasts at the NTC: one for partner organizations, and one on their CMS. Send your name, organization, and phone number, and which breakfast(s) you'd like to attend: Introducing: The Convio Solution Partner Program. The Convio CMS Advantage: Real World Success from Partners and Clients.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing us to send up to 57 people this year. While we've used the public humiliation of the NTEN staff as the theme in the past, this year we want to celebrate the collective awesome of the NTEN community. Every year, we raise up to $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Convio or Causes? More from the Convio Summit this week. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Some highlights… Austin noted that Convio now has almost 1,300 clients, after the acquisition of GetActive earlier this year. These nonprofit clients collectively have raised more than $1 billion over the years, using tools provided by Convio and GetActive, he said. GetActive Integration Austin said integration is continuing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 apps out there.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Alan Cooke, Convio. While system data and trends show online giving is growing, consumer research reinforces the need for nonprofits to focus on how they integrate online and other technology into their marketing and development programs – not just for today, but for the future. . To get your invitation visit [link].).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API. I have a few comments.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Meg Murphy, Convio. [Ed. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Last year, Convio clients raised more than $777 million online and 2009 looks to be even better. In 2008, Convio pioneered a new program called Convio Go! In 2008, Convio pioneered a new program called Convio Go!™

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. 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. That’s good news.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Or integrate with other video hosting sites? Convio , our CMS, has an easy embedding tool for YouTube. Tags: jaime-alexis fowler Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. If you're targeting 65-year-old dog owners, that may not be the case. Does your CMS have the ability to host video? Ready to Create Videos!

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JUNE 29, 2011

Or do: maybe they'll make another video like this one (complete with integrated marketing channels ). Oh, and: Convio has a new " Online Fundraising Guide ", too. Now they come to us, through Facebook, Twitter, and email. Keep them coming. Don't say bad things about Grand Rapids. The story of a street corner in NYC.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). With cloud computing, you can pick the functionality that you want, and integrate it with other applications as needed. What are NTEN, TechSoup, and Idealware saying about the solutions? Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Unlike credit card companies, airlines or any number of other consumer-oriented businesses, nonprofits today still depend largely on employees to manually integrate all information about each constituent for marketing purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. and Lindy Dryer work with associations to help them integrate social media. Holly Ross. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Michelle Murrain. Deborah Finn.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

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. Looing for affordable, easy way to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

According to community discussions and feedback, more than ever organizations see their online initiatives and integration with their traditional channels as a mission-critical function for reasons including: Prospects and donors say email from the organization has the same level of influence as direct mail on a person’s decision to give.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Your organization may already use a traditional CRM like Convio, Blackbaud, or Salesforce to track and maintain information about your members. Social CRMs can be used on their own or can be integrated with your traditional CRM system. So, what is Social CRM?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2009

I heard that Amazon is now offering Amazon Payments for nonprofits, so thought I’d check out their Product Spotlight session at NTEN’s NTC. Convio’s Dave Hart also was there, showing how Convio’s working on integrating Amazon Payments into its next major product release. It’s pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog. Some people use Twitter while multi-tasking ( Alison Brynes ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. It's nice that the two are integrated so you can easily tab back and forth). If using the Saleforce integration , I'd want to be able to select the people in my database who came to me via keyword advertising.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. In fact, if you're using Facebook correctly, it should be strongly integrated with your email campaigns and BOOST overall campaign response. Every quarter, our data analyst, Mathew Grimm, emails out a report of every list source and how they're performing.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Thanks to NTEN for sharing live webinars of the NTC sessions for those of us that couldn’t make the actual conference. Integrating the offline and online tactics is the HOLY GRAIL, and Chris provided the following recommendations to address the gap: Compare efficiencies between the activities – door-to-door vs. an online petition.

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MARCH 28, 2008

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !)

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Also, NTEN recently published a report on the results of a survey covering CRM satisfaction. based nonprofits are faced with two extremes: on the one hand, there are large large players like Convio , Kintera , and Blackbaud and on the other hand there are smaller providers like DIA , FirstGiving , and NetworkForGood.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2012

The annual conference from NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network brought together 1,800 nonprofit professionals, technologists, and service providers for three days of sessions, panels, and workshops covering the gamut of topics related to technology and social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Run, Inspired and Inspirational: In this phase, a successful, real-time integration of content marketing and curation is part of the fabric of nearly all aspects of branding. 50 Social Media Content Ideas from Convio. Source: Copyblogger. 20 Different Formats by Pro Blogger. 25 Basic Styles of Blogging, by Rohit Bargavda.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

While implementation can get complex depending on the organization's requirements, both are easy for non-developer techie admins to manage and integrate with other services. We're especially excited about Convio's Common Ground , which we started using in our Salesforce environment last summer for donation and campaign management.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

While implementation can get complex depending on the organization's requirements, both are easy for non-developer techie admins to manage and integrate with other services. We're especially excited about Convio's Common Ground , which we started using in our Salesforce environment last summer for donation and campaign management.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

16 Comments | by Share Article in Direct Mail , Online Fundraising Reader Comments (16) Mal - First, really enjoyed your "ask the expert" conference call with NTEN a few weeks ago. When I first founded Convio back in 1999, I believed that direct mail was doomed and that money would flow online much faster. Think about it.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

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. I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

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. I would like to acknowledge NTEN’s leadership in this area. Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. She is one of our great online community organizers.

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