If you’d like to speak at this conference — or just submit a session idea — now’s your chance. 

More than 700 nonprofit sector professionals will gather this November in Austin for Convio’s fourth annual Summit. Convio staffers are pulling together ideas for the 2009 Summit breakout sessions. And, we know that some of the most insightful and valuable information comes straight from our clients, partners and nonprofit sector experts.

So, we want to hear from you! Take a look at the sections below to find out more:

• Presentation Guidelines
• Deadlines
• Submission Form

Presentation Guidelines (What we’re looking for)

• Subject Matter — Our goal is to provide Summit attendees with both fresh ideas and real-world techniques/examples for fundraising, marketing and advocacy using the Internet.

Following are some of the topic areas that we’re interested in:

o Staffing and organizing for success
o Effective Internet strategies for smaller nonprofits
o Multi-channel fundraising
o Creative ideas for fundraising/advocacy/marketing programs
o Techniques for growing advocacy support levels
o New ideas for constituent-led fundraising
o “A-thon” events
o Driving Web traffic
o User experience and information architecture
o Engaging Web sites for conversion
o Email address acquisition
o Viral marketing
o Leveraging social networks
o Online/offline data sharing strategies
o Using ecommerce as a fundraising strategy

• Speakers — Sessions that include Convio client speakers and/or examples are strongly preferred.

• Format — We want to provide attendees with fun, creative and interactive experiences. Think of new ways to present your material that not only step outside of the box, but actually CHANGE the box! Make it a session that you’d want to attend, too.

Some ideas: Game show format; moderator with client/partner panel; 10 ideas you can start using today; audience questions with prizes for the best answer. Use your imagination! Just remember that attendance for each session could be 150+, so don’t count on spending one-on-one time with attendees in your session.

• Length — Each session should be no longer than 1 hour, including Q&A or other audience feedback/participation.

Deadlines (When we need it)

• June 1 — Call for presentations closes
• June 30 — Convio will notify all submitters of selected presentations
• July — All speakers will receive instructions and deadlines for their presentations 

Submission Form (What you want to tell us)

Questions?

If you have questions about this Call for Presentations, please email us at summit@convio.com.