New Contact Data Appliance; Consultant Analytics Acquisition; New Crowd-Funding Platform

Convio Acquires Analytics and Data Intelligence Firm StrategicOne
Austin, Texas (Jan. 31, 2011) — Convio Inc. announced it has acquired StrategicOne, a leading provider of analytics, predictive modeling and database marketing services. By adding StrategicOne’s capabilities to Convio’s market-leading software and service offerings, nonprofits can improve marketing and fundraising results by building stronger relationships with constituents and prospects. StrategicOne services help nonprofits discover, analyze and act on information to more effectively attract new constituents, retain existing ones, reactivate lapsed supporters and steward relationships to higher levels of engagement. Click here to read more.

CauseVox Launches Customizable Crowd-Funding Platform for Nonprofits
New York (Jan. 28, 2011) — CauseVox, a white-label crowd-funding platform for nonprofits, announced the launch of its fully customizable crowd-funding platform for nonprofits. The platform, in beta, offers easy to use and manage charity-branded fundraising pages. Click here to read more.

Best-of-breed appliance delivers blazing speed to verify and enrich contact data
There are products every year that companies should look for to streamline processes, save money and to improve accuracy. For companies looking to improve their data without compromising any compliance or privacy issues for their clients, Melissa Data developed the Contact Verification Server. A Dell™manufactured appliance that incorporates six WebSmart components for contact data verification and enrichment, including address, phone, and e-mail verification, name parsing, geocoding, and change-of-address processing. This server can verify more than 7 million records per hour — and additional servers can be clustered together to verify event more. Click here to read more.