Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

It's been a little over a year since I fully deployed Convio Common Ground at the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Afterwards, thanks to new upgrades from Salesforce aimed at developers like Convio, there was minimal configuration. Which brings me to the next great thing about Convio Common Ground: support. Still no regrets.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I just got back from 3 fabulous days in Baltimore at the Convio Summit user conference. This year, there were enough nonprofit organizations already on Common Ground to warrant a session or two aimed at users, rather than just to sell existing Convio clients to the application as was found at previous Summits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Every dollar of your gift will be matched by Convio , up to $10,000. Tags: fundraising community conference 09ntc nptech events convio. Give to the Scholarship Fund. NTEN will be able to waive registration fees for up to 57 attendees with scholarships this year. Donate Airline Miles. See you in San Francisco in May!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. View: All Giving USA Foundation Reports. 3) 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report :: Download. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. 4) 2012 Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark™ Study :: Download.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 17, 2012

You've probably heard by now that Blackbaud has announced it intends to acquire Convio in a roughly $240 million deal. The biggest impact will be felt by Convio clients and the partner vendors and consultants in the Convio ecosystem – and there's lots of speculation about that already. That's the interesting story here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2013

Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. View: All Giving USA Foundation Reports. 4) 2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report :: Download. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. 5) 2012 Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark™ Study :: Download. 6) 2012 mGive Text Giving Study :: Download. Published by mGive.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

The nonprofit community was stunned yesterday when Blackbaud purchased long time rival Convio. According to Blackbaud President Marc Chardon, “Combining Convio and Blackbaud is expected to help create one of the largest SaaS vendors with over $440 million in trailing twelve months pro forma revenue.”

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The graphic, provided by Convio , compares the growth of online giving between the years of 2008 to 2010, these numbers have only grown over the past 3 years and are continuing to increase. Image courtesy of Convio. The internet is the fastest growing avenue for nonprofit donations. Let us know in the comment section below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Blackbaud/Convio: github.com/convio. Finally, it’s worth noting that GitHub is also compatible with many different project management systems, such as Basecamp , Zapier , Slack , and Trello. Nonprofits and Nonprofit Technology Companies Using GitHub. Institute for NonProfit News: github.com/INN. Classy: github.com/classy-org.

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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. Which leads me to the second factor that made Common Ground special… Midsize nonprofit business expertise: Convio knows about fundraising online. I know I'll be fine.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

The buzz in our biz is that you have made enormous strides over the years in the areas that count – client service, product usability, and bringing the promises of the salesforce and the realities of customerhood into an acceptable equlibirium. Vinay continues to be a major thought leader in fundraising, and an inspiring colleague.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

The buzz in our biz is that you have made enormous strides over the years in the areas that count – client service, product usability, and bringing the promises of the salesforce and the realities of customerhood into an acceptable equlibirium. Vinay continues to be a major thought leader in fundraising, and an inspiring colleague.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Date : September 30-October 2, 2012. Location : Washington, DC. Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Earlier this fall, Convio released its " Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising Benchmark Study ," based on a look at 48 organizations using Convio's TeamRaiser to manage fundraising events. You can find the complete study online here. They recently released an infographic to illustrate some of the key benchmarks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2013

Published by Convio. View: All Convio Reports. View: All Giving USA Foundation Reports. 4) 2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report :: Download. Published by NTEN. View: All NTEN Reports. 5) 2012 Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark™ Study :: Download. 6) 2012 mGive Text Giving Study :: Download. Published by mGive.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2012

Kudos to Vinay Bhagat of Convio for winning the 2012 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. O'Brien praised Bhagat for founding the influential and successful software platform, Convio, which helped more than 1600 nonprofits to raise $1.3 billion in 2011 alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2011

The idea is that nonprofit professionals will be able to use the book chapter-by-chapter to implement best practices in Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. The tools, resources, and nonprofit service providers covered in the book thus far are: Blackbaud. Dictionary.com. Ez Publish. Network Solutions. Squarespace. Thesaurus.com. Wild Apricot. WordPress.com.

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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. The sheer number of vendors providing this toolset for nonprofits is huge (although rapidly shrinking.)

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Nonprofits that are currently using Common Ground Enterprise, Luminate, and Convio Online Marketing are also nervous. Luminate was the top contender for one of my clients, but they’re strongly considering eliminating Blackbaud from further consideration. I doubt they’re the only ones. That discussion continued on my blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

OpenIssue will continue with its strong team focused entirely on CRM and data (using Salesforce, Convio Common Ground, etc.). I have decided to step out of co-running OpenIssue , a business that I helped start more than 2 years ago, so that I can work part-time, to get (and stay) healthy.

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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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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Over the past several months I've had the pleasure of working with Convio's Engineering team on a number of new features for Luminate Online. The tech jargon (sorry, I tried): with the Winter release, Convio's Open API will support the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. Author: Noah Cooper. And proud of it. Oh, memories.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Have you ever wondered who else works at Convio? As a staffer working out of our DC office, I decided to relocate to Texas for a month and spend some time working from Convio's Austin offices (eating breakfast tacos, getting to know my colleagues and such). Author: Emily Goodstein. Howdy, Connection Cafe readers!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

Proprietary CMS as part of a large package (such as from Convio or Blackbaud). On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host). Proprietary stand-alone CMS (such as Sharepoint.).

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Convio released their own Fall ‘09 upgrade of Common Ground (to version 2.1). While I was still trying to figure out what we were going to do before switching to Convio Common Ground, I asked staff for their Salesforce wish list: “what do you wish our database could do that it doesn’t already?&# So what’s new?

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2012

On January 17th, the nonprofit, technology, and financial communities learned that Blackbaud was beginning the steps to acquire Convio , whose board had approved the purchase. Join NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, Wednesday, January 25th, for a Community Call: " Your Perspectives on the Blackbaud and Convio Acquisition Announcement." >

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2012

The sixth annual Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Index Study is now officially released. Author: Vinay Bhagat. At a macro-level, we continue to see online engagement growing at a healthy rate. In fact, over the past five or six years, online fundraising has grown at a similar rate to retail e-commerce, good news for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2012

Dust off your Tom’s, iPads, and lanyards- SXSW is finally upon us and no one is more excited than we are here at Convio. Author: Guest Blogger. It’s that time of the year again folks! Have no fear if you are new though, they provide a nice beginner’s guide and mobile app for those who are feeling overwhelmed.

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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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Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2012

One of my fears when I left Fight Colorectal Cancer to join Convio is that I would lose my hands-on experience in Salesforce. Tagged: Common Ground , Convio , CRM , Salesforce. I have a confession. That I would get too much distance from the day-to-day of actually using Salesforce/Common Ground at an organization.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

Whether I decided to install the Salesforce Foundation’s Nonprofit Starter Pack , Convio Common Ground or something in between (or nothing at all), I would have some concessions to make. After weighing all the options, and with a little help from some friends , we’ve decided to purchase Convio’s Common Ground.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

Whether I decided to install the Salesforce Foundation’s Nonprofit Starter Pack , Convio Common Ground or something in between (or nothing at all), I would have some concessions to make. After weighing all the options, and with a little help from some friends , we’ve decided to purchase Convio’s Common Ground.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 5, 2010

Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. As Convio found, average gift size declined. I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall.

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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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