Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Nonprofits that are currently using Common Ground Enterprise, Luminate, and Convio Online Marketing are also nervous. But with a cloud-based system, when a vendor ends support or goes out of business the product can simply vanish. I doubt they’re the only ones.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When I wasn't busy rafting on the Truckee River , biking to Nevada City , hanging out with friends and family, or eating , I was playing around with Titanium Appcelerator , a cross-platform application development system. The result of my* efforts, the Convio Summit 2010 Guide , is now available in the iTunes App Store.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

Two of them (Convio and Blackbaud) are even publicly traded companies, which says a lot about the profit potential of this vertical. Closed data systems, difficult to integrate systems, or systems that require payment to get access to your data should be avoided at all cost.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It’s likely going to be another long one, so for those of you who just want it short and bittersweet, here it is: I will be leaving Fight Colorectal Cancer at the end of this year to join Convio’s Common Ground team. Why Convio? In the end, accepting an offer from Convio was the best and most logical choice for me.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 29, 2012

Back in September, as I posted that I was leaving Fight Colorectal Cancer to join Convio , I had a picture in my head of what my new job would be like. Convio has put all its attention into the kitchen and bathrooms and added a heavily customized bedroom or two on to the garage. I love my job. Folks can live quite comfortably that way.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2012

In November we will launch integration between the Financial Edge and Common Ground to enable a seamless post between the two systems and reduce reconciliation time. We are adding a complimentary Wealth Audit for Luminate CRM and Common Ground in August.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 4, 2011

If you've been following my site for a while, you know I blog a lot (when I blog at all) about Salesforce and Convio Common Ground. This session uses real examples of how other nonprofits in the New York area are using Information Systems to manage their organizations. What do nonprofits use Salesforce for? •

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

When I accepted the job at Convio, I negotiated that it would be okay for me to blog. Convio respected and understood the ecosystem it was a part of. Integrate with websites and other systems? It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm out of a job for the first time since 2005. I know I'll be fine. Even preferred.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. As Michael Hoffman shares, the Convio Facebook application is really good. They have also made it easy to build. Day 1. [.]

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I am very curious how nonprofits are managing their websites these days: Are you using a content management system offered by companies such as Convio , Blackbaud or eTapestry ? Although social media gets much of the buzz these days, websites are still central to your nonprofit’s online communications strategy.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 4, 2011

If you've been following my site for a while, you know I blog a lot (when I blog at all) about Salesforce and Convio Common Ground. Most nonprofits know they need an information system, but may not know how to find a good system or what to look for in a system. What to look for in an information system? . •

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

More than 700 people are here in Austin, both clients and partners, to learn about what Convio is up to, and to learn from each other about best practices for nonprofits online. This morning’s keynote address was from Convio CEO Gene Austin. blogging from the convio summit [.] blogging from the convio summit [.]

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

What CRM systems (such as Convio, Democracy in Action) do their technologies integrate with? What CRM systems have they completed recent integration projects with? What systems and practices do they have in place to ensure that they don’t exceed the agreed-upon budget? Do they have a relationship with hosting companies?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. In fact, ASPCA and Conservation International received recognition during Convios Summit, in part for their successful use of widgets on social networks such as MySpace.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. It is a scalable content management and system integration platform of choice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The combination of Orange Leap and The Guru are a web-based CRM/DMS and reporting system aimed squarely at Salesforce.com and Convio Common Ground. They have also released two new products, called Orange Leap and the Guru. The pricing of the hosted version is definitely competitive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Actually, I didn’t use the Battlestar Galactica expletive , I used the one you’re more familiar with. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

That’s mostly because that’s what I know, and there is a critical enough mass for all three of them that some integration work has been done in a systemic way (the exception to this is Drupal/Salesforce - it’s only half-way systematic.)

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

It does not include custom systems, of which there are many. Feel free to let me know what I missed, which systems no longer exist, and which aren’t really donor databases. Morant Information Systems. Association Management System. Campaign Management Systems. Three Rivers Systems. Hill Systems.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing NTEN to send up to 57 people this year! The system will send you a confirmation email you must respond to before you can log in for the first time. You can bid on nearly 100 items in the first silent auction , getting something great for yourself, and supporting the campaign at the same time.

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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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Judi Sohn

MARCH 17, 2012

I’m considering going to NTC next month without schlepping the heavy-ish Lenovo ThinkPad Convio gave me. If the future of the Mac experience is going to be iOS across the board, I might as well use the device that uses the operating system best. Yes, if I have to restore it will take much longer, but I can live with that.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

What could be better than a fabulous organization getting recognized for the important work they do by the entire Convio community during our recent Convio Summit in Baltimore ? They’re frequent consumers of Convio’s Community resources and they're are stars of the DC Convio User's Group, too.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

Emily here—with another little glimpse “ behind the Convio admin curtain. " (Cue Days of Our Lives theme song.) When I first started investigating superstar Convio administrators for the purposes of my Connection Café interviews , Brian’s name was mentioned time and time again. Author: Emily Goodstein.

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NTEN

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. .

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

If you're drawn to the power of Salesforce integrated featureset, Convio's Common Ground CRM which is built on the Salesforce platform may be a good alternative. The downside of Salesforce is that the implementation costs to get your Salesforce instance configured the way you need can be prohibitive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Is this a bad thing? Myspace is going with OpenID ! That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days. Of course, it’s only a study of Convio’s clients – but it’s interesting nonetheless. { I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) And how will Convio react? Will they continue in that direction? It will be interesting to watch what happens with Kintera, and especially, what happens with their APIs.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Tom Krackeler, Convio. Tom is currently at Convio as Vice President of the Common Ground product line, a nonprofit constituent relationship management solution that Convio built on the Force.com platform from Salesforce.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) They released their Convio/Salesforce connector on Salesforce.com AppExchange. at 6:40 pm Thanks Michelle for the Convio props! MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. They also launched their blog.

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