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43rd Annual Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot Launches Registration on KIMBIA-powered site.

Spencer Whelan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:41:23 +0000

The Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot is the largest Thanksgiving Day event of its kind in the country. For the third consecutive year, the Dallas YMCA has chosen KIMBIA to power its online registrations. This year, however, they’ve taken their event to the next level with a site designed to enhance the KIMBIA-powered registrations and fundraising capabilities.

The site at www.thetrot.org is designed first and foremost to make registering for one of the four races as easy and efficient as possible. (Check out the registration pages here) It is also designed to allow participants to become volunteer fundraisers for the YMCA as well. Participants can select from one of five different fundraising goals, and they’ll instantly receive a personal fundraising URL with a progress meter telling them how close they are to reaching their goals. Participant fundraisers even have the ability to copy and paste their personalized form onto their own Website or blog, so they can raise money on their own sites.

This year’s version of the Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot is poised to be the best yet. Those of us working on this at KIMBIA are honored to be involved with such a first class event and organization. If you’re organization is planning a participatory event and need online registration/fundraising help, please contact us at info@kimbia.com

Client Success: Nashville Flood Relief Case Study

Spencer Whelan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:41:29 +0000

In the first week of May 2010, heavy rains fell on the Middle Tennessee region raising the Cumberland River to unprecedented levels and flooding much of the Metro Nashville area. Powered by the combined efforts of KIMBIA and GuideStar’s DonorEdge platform, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee responded immediately with a custom online fundraising campaign.

The Community Foundation was able to quickly launch branded, embeddable fundraising widgets all around the community just days after the disaster. Within a week the widget had spread to dozens of sites, including CBS.com, The Academy of Country Music, and GAC-TV’s Websites. In all, the widgets have raised well over a million dolllars in relief funds, with over 46% of the donations coming from third-party sites like the ones mentioned above. Combined with the swift and strategic leadership of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennesse, this technology has proven itself to be invaluable during disaster relief fundraising efforts.

Read all about it by downloading the case study here.

Event 360 Interview with KIMBIA President, Thon Morse

Spencer Whelan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:38:35 +0000

Please check out the new interview of KIMBIA President Thon Morse by Jono Smith at Event 360. The Interview is the next in the 7 Questions Series about Fundraising and Marketing at theEvent 360 Blog.

Click Here to read the full Interview.

KIMBIA is Hiring!

Spencer Whelan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:18:07 +0000

KIMBIA is growing and we are looking for talented, motivated and passionate people to join our team.

At KIMBIA we use the tag line ‘GIVING POWER’ in several different ways. First we strive to give power to our clients so they can unleash their talents and grow their organizations. Next, we give power to donors and participants to express themselves more fully and support organizations they care about. KIMBIA also gives power to our employees to be creative, entrepreneurial thought leaders. Are you a creative, results oriented problem solver? Do you enjoy innovation, initiative, and responsibility? Check out our job postings below–KIMBIA may be for you.

Job Openings

Position: KIMBIA Quality Assurance Lead (Full-time)
Department: Development

Postion: Java/EJB Developer (Full-time)
Department: Development

Form Widget v.2 and CSS Examples

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:10:17 +0000

UPDATE: As of the 6.23.2010 maintenance release, new HTML container elements have been added to the KIMBIA form widget. These new elements will facilitate more advanced form layouts via CSS and provide a more accurate method of styling. Any custom stylesheet that was written prior to these updates should continue to work as expected and no changes are necessary to accommodate these new elements. However, if you are applying custom styles to your KIMBIA form widget, we recommend reading the updated documentation and CSS examples.

With the release of our widget v2 or "short snippet", we have updated the documentation for configuring and customizing your KIMBIA forms. The new documentation covers everything from understanding the "new" short snippet to applying custom styles.

Highlights of the documentation:

Understanding the New short 'snippet'
Modifying the short 'snippet' configuration
Appending the short 'snippet' manually
Default behavior of the Kimbia form
Applying custom styling
Widget v2 HTML structure
Example custom CSS styles

In response to many customer requests, we are very excited to present the example CSS styles. While our forms are extremely flexible in how they are styled, this flexibility has left many wondering where to begin. Now all you have to do is begin with one of the example style sheets and edit or tweak it from there - much easier than starting from scratch.

A future post will be highlighting some customer examples, so if you would like your form or widget highlighted just let us know.

KIMBIA widget v2 Documentation KIMBIA CSS Examples

How do I pre-fill contact information in KIMBIA forms?

maubin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:07:53 +0000

Are you a KIMBIA customer running an email donation or registration fundraising campaign and you already know your donor’s contact information? If you do and can uniquely identify the user when they load the page, you can pre-fill the contact information in KIMBIA forms so the user doesn’t have to type it.

Some examples of fields you can pre-fill:

First Name
Last Name
Email
Street Address Line 1
Streed Address Line 2
City
State
Zipcode
Phone

How to Set Kimbia Contact Profile Values

1) Determine the question.name. Usually, this can be determined by loading the form and getting the name attribute of the input. Do not use other attributes.

Put a Custom Function in the of the web page, using JavaScript.

2) In your Custom Function, add calls to the widget API to set desired answer values.

widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("questionName", "desired value");

Examples:

widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("FirstName", "Bart");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("_payment.firstName", "PayFirstNameTest");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("LastName", "Jones");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("ContactEmail", "bartjones@mailinator.com");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName('MailingAddress|country', 'US');
//NOTE: when working with Addresses, set country first.
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("MailingAddress|street1", "1234 Testing Avenue");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("MailingAddress|street2", "#2");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("MailingAddress|city", "Pleasantville");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("MailingAddress|state", "AL");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("MailingAddress|zipcode", "78704");
widget.setDefaultAnswerValueByQuestionName("Q4J3CDKWLGG", "555-555-5555,");
***see notes below

3) Put your snippet in the BODY of the page. Add the &onload= parameter to it that matches the name of your custom function.







	 

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<h1>UPDATED: Donate tonight… ACM Brooks & Dunn – Lifting Lives special on CBS</h1>
<p>Spencer Whelan — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:52:21 +0000</p>
<h4>UPDATED 5/23/2010</h4>
<p>Tonight, CBS will be airing special event with Brooks & Dunn.  During the show, viewers will be encouraged to donated to help aid in the Flood relief in the Middle Tennessee area.  Go to <a href="http://www.CBS.com/Give">CBS.com/Give</a> tonight and make a donation to the KIMBIA-powerd donation form on the page.  Additionally, you may visit the Academy of Country Music site dedicated to accepting donations at <a href="http://www.acmcountry.com/liftinglives/">http://www.acmcountry.com/liftinglives/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cbs.com/give"></a><br />
———————</p>
<p>(5/16/2010) Right Now the Music City – Keep on Playin Benefit is on the Air and accepting donations.  Go to <a href="http://www.gactv.com/help">http://www.gactv.com/help</a> and complete the KIMBIA-Powered donation form on the left hand of the page.</p>
<div id="attachment_1650" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 645px"><a href="http://www.gactv.com/help"></a><p class="wp-caption-text">GAC Benefit Concert Live</p></div>

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<h1>Make Progress Public, Part 3 of 3</h1>
<p>admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:08:29 +0000</p>
<p>
<h3>Configuring a time-based, goal-based, participatory fundraiser in Kimbia is a snap.</h3>
<strong>Part 3 of this simple guide explains how to:</strong>
<ol>
	<li>Define a specific, public financial goal and goal date for your campaign</li>
	<li>Enable your donors to also advocate and raise money for your campaign</li>
	<li>Publicly display campaign progress and the progress of individual advocates</li>
	<li>Track the performance of advocate supporters</li>
	<li><strong>Link a registration form to a donation form so that a new registrant is automatically signed up to raise money</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Review a demonstration site that can be used as a model for your campaign</strong></li>
</ol>
<h3><strong>Using a registration form to sign up new advocate fundraisers</strong></h3>
Kimbia registration forms can easily be linked to an individual donation form within your campaign.
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Anyone registering using a linked registration form is automatically registered as a new advocate for the designated fundraiser.
<br /><br />
Some common examples:
<ul>
	<li>Your organization hosts an annual gala, golf tournament or 5K fun run.  If you link the event registration form to the fundraiser, each new registrant will receive the fundraising tools described herein.</li>
	<li>You organization wishes to recruit advocates to drive a campaign.  In this case, you might create a simple registration form - it can include as little as just an email address.  Each person signing up with automatically receive fundraising tools.</li>
</ul>
After you’ve setup your registration form, linking the form to a fundraiser is easy.  Edit the<strong> Form Setting</strong> for your registration form and select the donation form that the registration form will distribute.

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In this example, the registrant is simply providing contact information to sign up as an advocate.  They will only see payment screens if they chose to make an optional donation, otherwise, they’ll receive a registration confirmation and their advocacy tools in their inbox.
<br /><br />

<br /><br />
<h3><strong>Putting it all together ... the model Everybody advocacy site</strong></h3>
To view a live version of the campaign used in this example please visit:
<br /><br />
<a href="http://amhope.blogspot.com/">http://amhope.blogspot.com/</a>
<br /><br />
To try out these advocacy tools, visit the donate page and give a gift.  The fundraiser is in <strong>Test Mode</strong>, so you can complete a transaction with the fake credit card number:
<strong>4111 1111 1111 1111</strong>
and verification code:
<strong>123</strong>.
<br /><br />
Give yourself a gift or ask a friend do so to experience the whole process.
<br /><br />
This campaign site includes lots of good promotional text.  We welcome you to borrow any of our formats or text.
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<h1>Make Progress Public, Part 2 of 3</h1>
<p>admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:10:41 +0000</p>
<p>
<h3>Configuring a time-based, goal-based, participatory fundraiser in Kimbia is a snap.</h3>
<strong>Part 2 of this simple guide explains how to:</strong>
<ol>
	<li>Define a specific, public financial goal and goal date for your campaign</li>
	<li>Enable your donors to also advocate and raise money for your campaign</li>
	<li>Publicly display campaign progress and the progress of individual advocates</li>
	<li><strong>Track the performance of advocate supporters</strong></li>
	<li>Link a registration form to a donation form so that a new registrant is automatically signed up to raise money</li>
	<li>Review a demonstration site that can be used as a model for your campaign</li>
</ol>
<h3><strong>How <span style="font-color: #698541;">Everybody Advocacy</span> works for donors and donor advocates</strong></h3>
Each time a donor donates to your campaign, they will see several options on the confirmation screen for viral or social promotion of the campaign.


Each donor will also receive an email with simple instructions on how to promote the campaign.


Donor advocates can email friends from the <strong>email</strong> button ...



... or post their personal link via Facebook or Twitter

Facebook post


Donors following the link will be taken to a donation form personalized for that advocate.


Donor advocates can also publish their fundraiser on a personal Web page or blog.


On blogs or personal pages, the entire donation form is displayed and donors can complete the transaction without every leaving your advocate’s site.

It is important to note that your organization always controls the donation form centrally from the Kimbia control panel.  Anytime you change options in the control panel, all remote forms will change instantly.  When the campaign is over, all the remote forms will automatically turn off.

Each time a donor advocate gets a new gift, they will receive a follow up email letting them know who gave the gift with a handy link to send a <strong>thank you</strong> note via email.

Advocates will also get a status update on their fundraising progress and the progress of the overall campaign.  Each email update also includes further encouragement and tools for continuing the promotional effort.


When a donor gives to an advocate, the advocate who encouraged the donation is recognized in their email receipt.

<h3><strong>Tracking your advocate’s progress via reporting and promoting further action</strong></h3>
Keeping up with your individual advocates during the campaign is easy.  One of the default reports in <strong>Data Management</strong> is <strong>Everybody Performance</strong> under <strong>Financial Transactions</strong>.

This report lists each advocate, their unique AdvocateId, the number of gifts they’ve received and the URL of the Web sites where they have received gifts.


Of course, it is always a great idea to email your best advocates to keep them motivated and thank them for their support.

AdvocateId is a standard field in reporting.  So, if you’re running a report to look at individual gifts to the campaign, you can add this field to see which gifts were given due to advocate activity.

Also, AdvocateId can be exported the same way that email addresses can be exported.  This is useful for several purposes, including:
<ol>
	<li>Sending follow up emails to your advocates to encourage them to start fundraising or continue fundraising.</li>
	<li>Embedding the AdvocateId in emails sent from your regular email application so you'll be able to track gifts that come from promotional activities, such as email forwarding.</li>
	<li>Adding AdvocateIds to future campaigns.  Even if the donor advocate has not interacted with that campaign you can attach their AdvocateId to a donation form URL and track their promotional activity.</li>
</ol>
In <a href="http://www.kimbia.com/d/make-progress-public-part-3-of-3/">Part 3</a>, we’ll provide a walkthrough of a model advocacy-based <strong>fundraising</strong> site and explain how to tie a registration to your fundraiser.
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<h1>Make Progress Public, Part 1 of 3</h1>
<p>admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:36:23 +0000</p>
<p>
<h3>Configuring a time-based, goal-based, participatory fundraiser in Kimbia is a snap.</h3>
<strong>What you'll learn about in Part 1 of this guide:</strong>
<ol>
	<li><strong>Define a specific, public financial goal and goal date for your campaign</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Enable your donors to also advocate and raise money for your campaign</strong></li>
	<li><strong>Publicly display campaign progress and the progress of individual advocate</strong></li>
	<li>Track the performance of advocate supporters</li>
	<li>Link a registration form to a donation form so that a new registrant is automatically signed up to raise money</li>
	<li>Review a demonstration site that can be used as a model for your campaign</li>
</ol>
<h3><strong>Step 1 - Create a new campaign</strong></h3>
Create your campaign and enter a <strong>Goal Date</strong> and <strong>Goal Amount</strong>.

<br /><br />
The <strong>Goal Amount</strong> and <strong>Goal Date</strong> display as countdowns in the progress widget.

<br /><br />
<h3><strong>Step 2 - Create new donation forms</strong></h3>
When you are creating each of your donation forms within the campaign, turn on <strong>Make Progress Public</strong>.

<br /><br />
Every donation form within the campaign that has <strong>Make Progress Public</strong> turned <strong>'On'</strong> will contribute to the total reported by the progress widget.
<br />
<em>Note: It is possible to exclude some forms from the campaign total by leaving <strong>Make Progress Public</strong> set to <strong>Off</strong>.  It is also possible to configure a progress widget to point to a specific form.  That's why forms also have a <strong>Goal</strong> setting.</em>
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Two things occur when <strong>public progress</strong> is turned on.
<br /><br />
First, <strong>progress to goal</strong> will be displayed in any progress widgets attached to this campaign ... (<a href="#progressWidget">more on this below »</a>)
<br />

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Second, when your donors become advocates and convince their friends to donate, they’ll get an email updating them on their personal fundraising progress and the progress of the overall campaign ... (<a href="#advUpdateEmail">more on this below »</a>)

<br /><br />
<h3><strong>Step 3 - Form Settings edit Everybody Setting</strong></h3>
When creating each donation form, go to <strong>Form Settings</strong> and edit your <strong>Everybody Settings</strong> by turning <strong>Everybody</strong> On.  Enter the URL where your donation form is hosted.

<br /><br />
<h3><strong>Step 4  - Form Settings edit Advocacy Settings</strong></h3>
Another step...<br /><br />
In <strong>Form Settings</strong> ... edit <strong>Advocacy Settings</strong>.
<br /><br />
<strong>First,</strong> edit the <strong>Personalized Message</strong>.  This message displays when an advocate donor sends a friend back to the donation page.

<br /><br />

<br /><br />
<a name="advUpdateEmail"></a><strong>Second</strong>, edit the <strong>Advocacy email</strong> header and footer. Whenever a donor gives to this form, he or she will automatically receive instructions about how to help promote the campaign.  The instructions will arrive in an email sent as the same time as their receipt.

<br /><br />
If If the advocate clicks the <strong>email</strong> button, the advocacy email will be queued up so they can easily send it to friends.

<br /><br />
<h3><strong><a name="progressWidget"></a>Step 5 - Install a progress tracker widget next to your donation form</strong></h3>
Installing the progress tracker is as simple as installing a Kimbia donation widget.
<br /><br />
The code for the widget is always:
<code style="display: block; background-color: #eee; border: 1px solid #999; padding: 6px;"><script src="https://widgets.kimbia.com/widgets/executor/statusBar?campaign=[campaign_prefix].kimbia.com"></script></code>
<br /><br />
Copy and paste the progress widget on your organization's home page or the front page of the campaign web site.
<br /><br />
The progress tracker should also be placed on the donation page.  Placing the tracker on the donation pages display the progress of the campaign to anyone considering a gift.  More importantly, when an advocate sends a friend to the donation page, the tracker will display the advocate’s progress.
<br /><br />
The tracker can be placed above the donation form, but it can also be pasted into a nearby column.

<br /><br />
If a donor is sent to the page by an advocate, they will see the advocate’s individual progress instead the campaign’s progress.

<br /><br />
For more information on installing and styling your progress widget, see our blog post:
<a href="http://www.kimbia.com/d/installing-customizing-status-widget/">Installing & Customizing your Status widget</a>
<br /><br />
In <a href="http://www.kimbia.com/d/make-progress-public-part-2-of-3/">Part 2</a>, you will learn about the donor experience and about the advocate experience.  You'll also learn how to use reporting to track advocates.
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<h1>Sage North America Announces Sage Fundraising Online</h1>
<p>admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:14:25 +0000</p>
<p>Today, Sage North America announced Sage Fundraising Online.  In combination with their other product offerings, this creates a compelling new package that is likely to change the market significantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sagenonprofit.com/company/news_room/press_releases/details?CID=1D75EBD5-ED4C-0001-A023-5D7C1BA78900&CardId=467053&RowIndex=0&Product=%22Sage+Fundraising%3b%22+OR+%22Sage+MIP+Fund+Accounting%3b%22&Year=*">Read more at Sage Non-Profit Solutions</a></p>

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<h1>Mobile Giving Power – KIMBIA for Mobile Devices</h1>
<p>Spencer Whelan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:43:41 +0000</p>
<p>
As smartphones and mobile devices become a more ubiquitous part our everyday lives, your supporters expect to be empowered with mobile-ready donation and registration systems.  Therefore, every organization should address this need by asking the following questions.
<ol>
	<li>What will become the prevailing technology platform for mobile donations</li>
	<li>What technology will be reliable and efficient enough to meet our needs?</li>
	<li>What technology provides the levels of security and authentication needed to meet your donors’ expectations and can stand up to the scrutiny of strict fundraising guidelines.</li>
	<li>What technology can offer fully functional forms that capture all the data needed to build a relationship with donors.</li>
</ol>
Below are some answers on how KIMBIA approaches mobile donations and registrations.
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<h3>Our Mobile Donations Approach:  Web standards-based technology</h3>
In the recent history of mobile Internet browsing, it would be safe to say that user experiences varied widely from one donor to another.  However, this has recently changed with the advent next generation mobile browsers like Safari for the iPhone and Google Android. These newer devices with increased processor speed, built in keyboards & touch screens promise a more 'personal computer'-like browsing experience than the text based mobile browsing of just a few years ago.
<br><br>
At KIMBIA, we build all of our applications to work with Web standards.  For mobile devices, this is an important distinction. Building applications to work with Web standards means that as mobile Web browsing becomes more prominent, mobile browsers will be forced to adopt more a more standards-based approached.  Therefore KIMBIA is positioned to become the platform best-suited to provide a rich online donation experience whether the donor is browsing from their desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet, or smartphone.
<br><br>
KIMBIA is ahead of the curve on this transition, having already launched customer solutions built around this standards-based approach.   KIMBIA's apps rely on standards-based security features, JavaScript functionality, and CSS 2 support. These technologies are commonplace on todays desktop browsers (Firefox, IE7 & 8, Safari & Opera), and the newest, most popular mobile browsers also currently support these same standards.  The following standards-based mobile browsers support KIMBIA applications <strong>today</strong>:
<ul>
	<li>Safari (available on iPhone & iTouch)</li>
	<li>Google's Android</li>
	<li>Opera Mobile (available for Google's Android, Most Blackberry devices, Windows Mobile, & Symbian OS)</li>
</ul>
The chart below shows that a handful of mobile browser platforms account for almost all of the mobile Internet activity in the United States.   Based off of these most recent statistics, KIMBIA donations and registrations are accessible to more than <strong>70%</strong> of mobile Internet traffic. We expect this number to trend steadily upward as more mobile browsers are released and/or improved. For example, watch this video from RIM founder and CEO talking about blackberry’s upcoming browser developed on the WebKit standard and optimized for Javascript web applications. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-FqvXVl3U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-FqvXVl3U</a>
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<a href="http://www.kimbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mobile_device_mktshare.png"></a>
<h3>Efficiency & Reliability</h3>
Another benefit of using KIBMIA as a mobile donations platform is the fact that it uses the same payment infrastructure, deployment model and data accessibility standards you already have in place.  For example:
<br><br>
<ul>
	<li>The process for building a mobile-optimized KIMBIA form is no different than building any other KIMBIA form.</li>
	<li>Mobile donation/registration applications have full KIMBIA functionality.</li>
	<li>All funds collected through the form go directly from the donor’s credit card to the merchant account you’ve already established.</li>
	<li>Any database and compliance integrations will continue to work as expected.</li>
	<li>All donor data will be instantly available in your KIMBIA reports immediately after a donor makes a transaction.</li>
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<h3>Security, Integrity & Donor Authenticity</h3>
Some very important considerations for any organization looking into mobile donations is the security, system integrity and donor authentication involved in each transaction. We believe that KIMBIA is the only platform that is prepared today to meet all of these needs on mobile devices today.   For example:
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	<li>All data being sent through a KIMBIA form on a mobile device is sent through SSL encryption and is PCI compliant. A donation made through a mobile-optimized KIMBIA form uses the same high level standard of security found on your current site.</li>
	<li>KIMBIA forms in a mobile environment take direct credit card transactions.  Nothing is being charged through a cell phone company or other third party.  The transaction will require the CVV security code to complete a transaction ensuring a high threshold of donor authenticity.</li>
	<li>KIMBIA forms will accept all the required fields needed by your organization.  Fields like ‘Full name’, ‘email address’ ‘mailing address’, and custom questions like ‘employer’ and ‘occupation’ are all fields that you may need to be submitted along with a donation.   With KIMIBA mobile-optimized forms, you can get all the information you need.</li>
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<h3>Example</h3>
To show the flexibility and readiness of KIMBIA forms in a mobile environment, we’ve built an example of mobile-optimized application using a standard KIMBIA donation form on our Demo site.  Pull up the link below on an iPhone (or other webkit browser) to see and use this live donation form for yourself. (Source:  <a href="http://www.amhope.org/mobile" target="_blank">http://www.amhope.org/mobile</a> )<br><br><a href="http://www.kimbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/amhope_mobile.png"></a>
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<h3>Where other mobile donation technologies fall short</h3>
Recent events in Haiti have brought the promise of mobile donations into the news.  While there has been vast public interest in mobile giving, there are some important limitations to the various mobile options that should be considered.  Below are some examples of considerations for text-based giving, mobile giving apps, and other kinds of giving widgets.
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<strong>Donations by Text (SMS)</strong>
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	<li>There is only one donation level per SMS shortcode.  This is usually set at $5 or $10.  Fixed service fees and transactions fees associated with a text-based transaction can be considerably higher than a traditional online donation, depending on the pre-set donation level.</li>
	<li>The charge appears on the donor’s cell phone bill, and since mobile carriers are not creditors, they are not able to release funds until their users’ bills have been paid.  Therefore, funds are typically not released for up to 90 days after a text donation is made. ( <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/15/technology/haiti_text_donation_delay/index.htm">http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/15/technology/haiti_text_donation_delay/index.htm</a> )</li>
	<li>When funds are released, they come in the form of an aggregation payment from the mobile carrier. For example, if a political organization used this system to raise money, the funds would likely come from an organization like AT&T or Verizon rather than from individual donors.</li>
	<li>Confirming the donor identity through text is not possible.  Unique identifiers like physical address (country of residence) and credit card CVV are not required, anyone can make a donation on any SMS-enabled device.  In many cases, the person making the text donation is not the person paying the cell phone bill.</li>
	<li>No additional donor data is delivered by the carriers.  This means that organizations that are required to ask for ask for other data with the donation (e.g. ‘employer’ and ‘occupation’) will be unable to take donations via SMS.  In addition, there is no other information available (e.g. email address & home address) to use for building a relationship with the donor.</li>
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<strong>Donations through downloadable mobile giving apps</strong>
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	<li>Giving applications (like apps download on the iPhone) are only available to work on certain approved devices.</li>
	<li>A different app must be custom designed, submitted and approved by each respective device’s app store or marketplace.  (e.g. iTune App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, etc...)</li>
	<li>User adoption is difficult, requiring marketing efforts to convince users to download the app for future donations.</li>
	<li>Many companies like Google are pushing their development resources towards Web standards-based applications rather than downloadable apps.  ( <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/google-app-store/">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/google-app-store/</a> )</li>
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<strong>Donations through other “Widgets” on mobile devices</strong>
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	<li>Other online donation platforms may claim to have a donation form “widget”.  However, these are often not standards-based and use proprietary technologies like Adobe Flash in order to work.</li>
	<li>Flash is not supported by many of the top mobile devices like the  iPhone, ITouch, and new iPad.  This means that at least 57% of US mobile Web users will not be able to even load the donation form on their mobile device.</li>
</ol>
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<a class="pdf" href="http://www.kimbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Mobile_Giving_Power1.pdf">Click here to download this post as a PDF</a>
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<h1>Release Notes 3.29.2010</h1>
<p>admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:32:07 +0000</p>
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With this release, KIMBIA addresses three concerns for Administrators using the Control Panel. This release includes a new locking feature to help KIMBIA Administrators maintain more control over the Campaign configurations, two new Campaign goal settings and the ability to process refunds for IATS payment processor.
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<a class="pdf" href='http://www.kimbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/kimbia_releasenotes_20100329.pdf'>KIMBIA Release Notes 3-29-2010</a>
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<h1>Did you attend NRB 2010? Get the presentation here.</h1>
<p>Spencer Whelan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:27 +0000</p>
<p>On Saturday, Feb. 27th, KIMBIA Director of Marketing & Communication, Spencer Whelan and KMA VP of Online Marketing, Tim Kachuriak hosted a boot-camp session titled, “Taking Pages from Obama’s Fundraising Playbook”. (Boot-camp session details can be found <a href="http://www.nrbconvention.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=87384">here</a> )<br /><br />
In the session, Whelan and Kachuriak explained the high-level fundamentals of a successful online fundraising operation like Obama ‘08, and then unpacked the strategies into tactics that any organization can use to raise significantly more money online.  Some recent examples of joint KIMBIA and KMA clients were used to show these tactics in action.<br /><br />
If you attended the event and would like to download a PDF of the joint presentation, please see below.<br /><br />
<a class="pdf" href="http://www.kimbia.com/services/mktg/obama_nrb.pdf"> Taking Pages from Obama’s Fundraising Playbook</a></p>

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<h1>Do KIMBIA forms work on mobile phones?</h1>
<p>admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:44:08 +0000</p>
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<strong>The answer is yes, when the phone is using a modern web browser.</strong> 
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KIMBIA's apps rely on JavaScript functionality and security features, as well as CSS 2 support. These technologies are commonplace on todays desktop browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Safari & Opera).  A few mobile browsers are currently supporting these standard browser technologies, and therefore are also able to support donating/registering with a KIMBIA form:
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" style="font-size:.9em;width:100%">
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    <th scope="col" style="background-color:#407480;color:#ffffff;border-width:0 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;line-height:1.2;padding:6px;">Google™<br/>Android</th>
    <th scope="col" style="background-color:#407480;color:#ffffff;border-width:0 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;line-height:1.2;padding:6px;">Windows™<br/>Mobile 6.5</th>
    <th scope="col" style="background-color:#407480;color:#ffffff;border-width:0 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;line-height:1.2;padding:6px;">BlackBerry™</th>
    <th scope="col" style="background-color:#407480;color:#ffffff;border-width:0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;line-height:1.2;padding:6px;">Nokia™ phones<br />w/ Symbian™ OS</th>
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    <th scope="row" style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />Safari</th>
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    <th scope="row" style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />Google Browser</th>
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    <th scope="row" style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />Opera</th>
    <td style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Mini v5β<br />(<a href="http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/02/10/">coming soon</a>)</td>
    <td style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Mobile v10<br />(<a href="http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/12/10_2/">coming soon</a>)</td>
    <td style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />
    <a href="http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/" title="Opera Mobile version 10">Mobile v10</a></td>
    <td style="border-width:1px 1px 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />
    <a href="http://www.opera.com/mini/download/blackberry/#active" title="Opera Mini version 5 beta">Mini v5β</a></td>
    <td style="border-width:1px 0 0 0;border-style:dotted;border-color:#CCC;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><br />
    <a href="http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/" title="Opera Mobile version 10">Mobile v10</a></td>
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<strong>Based on these <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-yearly-2008-2010-bar">most recent statistics</a>, KIMBIA donations and registrations could be accessible to more than 69% of mobile Internet traffic.</strong> We expect this number to only trend upward as more mobile browsers are released and/or improved.
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Check back soon for our article on integrating KIMBIA into your mobile fundraising campaigns.
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<h1>Installing & Customizing your KIMBIA Advocate Look-up Widget</h1>
<p>maubin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:57:55 +0000</p>
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Are you a KIMBIA customer running an Advocacy-based fundraising campaign? Have you challenged your supporters and athletes to raise funds on behalf of your organization? <br/><br/>

Our Advocate Look-up widget allows your web site visitors to more easily support their friends by entering their name or email address. Now, they don't have to remember or find that old email with a personalized URL from their friend.  They can just visit your website and look their friend up!
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 After an Advocate's information is submitted, the Look-up widget will either send the user to that Advocate's personalized donation form, or it will ask the user to choose the correct advocate from a list of potential matches.
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This post covers:
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    <li><a href="#snippet_install">Installing the snippet for the Look-up widget</a></li>
    <li><a href="#css">Customizing your Look-up widget with CSS</a></li>
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<h3>Installing the Advocate Look-up Widget</h3>
<p>Simply paste the following code into the HTML page you wish to display the Advocate Look-up widget:<br />
<code style="font-size:.9em;"><script src="https://widgets.kimbia.com/widgets/executor/advocateLookup?campaign=[CampaignPrefix].kimbia.com"></script></code><br /><br />
Make sure you replace [campaign_prefix] with the actual prefix of your campaign listed in the 'Hosted Page' address on the <strong>Campaign Details</strong> page shown below:

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<a name="css"></a><h3>Customizing your Advocate Look-up widget with CSS</h3>
We think our Advocate Look-up widget looks great out-of-the-box. But, if you would like to edit its look and feel, please be our guests. Using the custom CSS template below, you can easily adjust the default look and feel to match your existing HTML.
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As always, customizing the CSS is optional. If you do choose to create a custom CSS file:<br />
1) you're responsible for hosting this file on your website<br />
2) only include the style attributes from the following template that you wish to override. Placing null value attributes in your declarations will cause your styling to break in unexpected ways!
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<a class="css" href='http://www.kimbia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/custom_advocateLookup.css'>KIMBIA Advocate Lookup Widget Custom CSS template</a>
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The following image gives provides a visualization of the HTML elements available for styling and how the markup relates to the rendered widget:

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<h1>Does KIMBIA allow me to manage “offline” registrations?</h1>
<p>admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:04:33 +0000</p>
<p><br />
Yes, using KIMBIA's standard form creation tools, you can easily create a form that allows your staff to manually enter information about donations and/or registrations that were not transacted online. These manually entered data points can then be included in your overall data for the fundraiser or event.
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