Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

The reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. Published by Convio. These reports are, however, some of the most valuable in terms of insight, useful and practical data, and how-to advice.

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Social Media Mobile Report Communication 234

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

The eight reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. Thank you. Published by NTEN.

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Report Convio Blackbaud Benchmark 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

The reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. Published by Convio. These reports are, however, some of the most valuable in terms of insight, useful and practical data, and how-to advice.

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Social Media Mobile Report Communication 226

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

Blackbaud and Convio Now One Company – "Blackbaud, Inc. NASDAQ: BLKB) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Convio, Inc., “This is an exciting day for the Blackbaud and Convio teams. a leading provider of on-demand constituent engagement solutions. and Canada.

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Web Blackbaud Linkedin Convio 149

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Technology Open Source Sample Nonprofit 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# What do you think?

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API Open Source Kintera Benchmark 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Lunch from 12-2: Refuel your stomach and mind with lunch brought to you by Convio. Fork over your lunch money to a local Austin organization and Convio will match your donation! Happy Hour from 3-6: Get your afternoon buzz on with snacks, beer, and live music to benefit Sweet Relief Musicians Fundsponsored by Salsa.

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Austin Colorado NTEN Convio 117

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

You should also check out the article Philip wrote for us this month, " Effective Uses of Social Media for Fundraising " Speaking of ourselves, remember that post back in February from Alan Cooke of Convio ? Amy Sample-Ward was kind enough to break it down for us back in February. Oh, you don't?

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Resource Haiti Fundraising Sample 47

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

A new study, by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies, The Next Generation of American Giving: A study on the contrasting charitable habits of Generation Y, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Matures, answers these questions, and more. ." We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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Web Wikipedia Bookmarking Wiki 114

Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2012

Think of a 95% confidence interval as an indication that if you were to take 100 different samples from the same population, the test would "outperform" the control in about 95 of the samples. Did you note above that "significance" requires your sample observations to be representative of the greater population?

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Analytics Sample Statistics Test 38

NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Photos are samples of just samples of previous work. Thanks also to our scholarship sponsors: Changing Our World Global Cloud Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health Masterworks TechSoup Global And, of course, thanks to Convio for making this possible by matching your donations dollar for dollar.

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Software Photography Sample Washington 61

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Donations were matched by Convio and with over $10,000 raised by the community, we had fun at the largest-attended NTC yet! NTEN is hoping to raise $10,000 from the nonprofit technology community again this year, and Convio is going to match those dollars to help get as many folks to #10NTC in Atlanta this April 8-10.

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NTEN Atlanta Widget Convio 132

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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Open Platform Kintera API 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. Satisfaction with Convio, Kintera and Blackbaud all trailed these top 4 tools. There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey.

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Open Source Open People Survey 100

Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

Panelists: Andrew Magnuson, Convio and Matthew Mielcarek, Convio. Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org, and Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Hodges, Northridge Interactive, JoMarie Hoholik, Balance Interactive Kira Marchenese, Environmental Defense Fund, Liz Murphy, RedEngine Digital, and Eric Werner, Northridge Interactive. Time: 10:30 AM.

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NTC Conference Atlanta Convio 47

NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

" Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date. The good news is that, according to Convio's tracking, this year should still see increased total online donations over last year, despite the down economy. Peter Campbell is kicking off a series of posts about Drupal.

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NTEN Drupal Convio Nptech 54

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

While enjoying the spring conference circuit, Convio put our (very patient) camerapeople and me to work. Watch the video now to see what sector leaders like Kivi Leroux Miller , Amy Sample Ward , John Kenyon, David J. Author: Cheryl Black. We asked 70 nonprofit pros what they think the biggest challenge facing the sector is.

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Industry Sample Convio Nonprofit 39

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Funny enough, when I changed my Google to “mobile donation form”, the first result was a page on the Convio Open site where you can download some sample code to build your own mobile-friendly form. The “click to call” functionality is quite handy in this case as well.

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Mobile Donation Cancer Sample 54

Forum One

MAY 4, 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. The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report. Organizations with smaller list sizes have better response rates.

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Benchmark Convio Trend Statistics 49

NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Amy Sample Ward blogs about a new report on nonprofit's use of social media, summarizing the findings and adding a few insights and tips of her own. And I can't resist thanking all the NTEN folks who are helping us and Convio send over 50 nonprofit staff to the 10NTC who wouldn't be able to be there otherwise! Members are in bold.

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NTEN Kiva Sample Convio 47

NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Amy Sample Ward blogs about a new report on nonprofit's use of social media, summarizing the findings and adding a few insights and tips of her own. And I can't resist thanking all the NTEN folks who are helping us and Convio send over 50 nonprofit staff to the 10NTC who wouldn't be able to be there otherwise! Members are in bold.

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NTEN Kiva Sample Convio 47

Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2012

When I joined Convio after 5 years as an event fundraiser, I was first introduced to the Communication Calendar while working with the Events360 and Komen 3-Day Events. Check out two sample communication plans in our recently published Social Media Kick Start Guide for P2P Events. Author: Robyn Mendez.

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Communication Channel Social Media Sample 50

NTEN

MARCH 2, 2009

With the $10,000 in matching funds from Convio (and the $395 we raised over our goal), we're going to be able to fund 58 scholarships to the 2009 NTC! Amy Sample Ward. Last Monday, when we were at $6000 and change, I wasn't sure we were going to meet our $10,000 fundraising goal. Michaela Hackner. Tim Briagh. Steve Heye. John Merritt.

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Goal Jordan NTC Fundraising 44

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2011

Convio wants to help you. This information was originally posted by Convio's Molly Brooksbank in March of 2010. Author: Kent Gilliam. Is your organization working to ready itself to respond to the needs caused by the earthquake in Japan? Rapid response is a top-of-mind topic for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes right now.

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Guide Haiti Disaster Japan 46

NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

With matching funds from Convio , we've now got enough funding to send 18 people to the NTC. Here's a sampling of what they've shared with us: "I am the first marketing employee the organization has had in its 100 years and they're very excited to find out what online marketing has to offer. Every time you give, you get a vote.

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NTC Convio Widget NTEN 36

NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Flickr: bensheldon Allyson Kapin summarizes some key findings from Convio 's 2009 Online Marketing Benchmark Inex Study , and cites some analysis by Superstar NTEN member Robert Weiner. Amy Sample Ward invites you to join her for the "140 Character Mission" event. You don't even have to attend -- just follow along on Twitter.

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NTEN Netsquared Sample Convio 36

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. Amy Sample Ward ( NetSquared ) wants you to get right with OneWebDay : learn more about the event and see ways to participate by checking out her great summary and reference list.

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Nptech NTEN Jordan Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I mentioned before that Convio, the main sponsor of 09NTC ( the Nonprofit Technology Conference from NTEN ), is matching funds in NTEN’s scholarship appeal. Visit nten.org/scholarship and donate now to get your vote for Holly’s fate.

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NTC Help Widget NTEN 100

NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Thanks to the generosity of Convio , we can add another $10,000 to that total, bringing us to $17,195. Amy Sample Ward. Once again, the amazing NTEN community rallied to support one another. In the last two weeks, you raised over $7,000 for the 10NTC Scholarship Campaign ! Exciting, right? Henry Quinn. Adam Rasmussen. Norman Reiss.

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Campaign Chad France Jordan 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 16, 2009

09 NTENnies At Large (Blackbaud's Chad Norman, and Convio's Jordan Viator) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) .

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NTEN Chad Jordan Nptech 36

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. For the duration of the conference, attendees can swing by the Convio booth for a coffee anytime as well.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 95

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! 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.

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Support Fund NTC NTEN 108

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

FreePress , Democracy In Action , Rad Campaign , Convio , Care2 , NTEN , Massey Media and Network Solutions. You’ll find us in Washington , DC , NYC , San Francisco, Atlanta , and London so save the date and come get your tech on with us. More details on the after parties soon. Our sponsors help make this event possible.

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Tech San Francisco Atlanta Blogher 120

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. For the duration of the conference, attendees can swing by the Convio booth for a coffee anytime as well.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 90

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition. DO include the name of your organization in the sample letter text. Otherwise it looks like your campaign is simply there to build your list.

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Advocacy Sample Facilitation Local 31

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Anyway, Blogwell was held at the University of Texas, ie right in Convio’s backyard. Make sure it is always disclosed who the person is, if they were paid (including free samples) and that any endorsement is honest. Thus I had the great opportunity to attend. The afternoon included four case study sessions and an ethics session.

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Social Media Conference Media Social 33

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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. Every field, workflow rule, report, tab, etc.

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Tips Cancer Convio Listserv 29