CircleUp Delivers New SmartMessage Web Services to BlackBaud Customers
Powerful New Suite of Services Includes Integration with Blackbaud Sphere®, SmartMessage "Inbox" for Websites and "CauseFeed" Group News Feed.
Charleston, SC. - November 17, 2008 - CircleUp, Inc., a leading provider of non-profit group messaging services, announced today at Blackbaud's 2008 Conference for Nonprofits the availability of SmartMessage - a suite of powerful new services for non-profit, education and government organizations enabling fast, efficient and time-saving communication with volunteers, supporters, donors, staff and participants over e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
Using the new SmartMessage services, volunteer leaders, event organizers and other group members send messages to contacts from Blackbaud Sphere, Microsoft Office Outlook®, Yahoo! Messenger®, AIM®, Facebook® and other sources. Everyone in the group responds quickly and easily using SmartMessage and the responses come back in one consolidated view in an easy to use and share web page format. This helps everyone in the group to avoid the usual blizzard of "reply all" email responses.
Benefits for Nonprofit Organizations include increasing volunteer and supporter involvement, integrating with existing sites easily and adding new funding channels to increase fundraising volume and efficiency.
Services and features now available with the new SmartMessage suite of services add significant value for nonprofits:
SmartMessage for non-profits, including the Blackbaud Sphere integration and all other applications and features are available today exclusively to Blackbaud customers. Any Blackbaud customers or partners interested in making the Outlook toolbar available for their nonprofits with custom branding and links to the organization's Web site can get an evaluation copy of the toolbar at http://www.circleup.com/smartmessage/tools/outlook and contact Daniel Scalisi, Vice President of Business Development (dscalisi@circleup.com) for details and/or a complimentary webinar demonstration.
About CircleUp
CircleUp provides group communications technologies and services which enable actionable and efficient interactions across diverse social, email, mobile, messaging and private web networks. CircleUp's SmartMessage™ private label platform integrates seamlessly with existing destinations and software, helping non-profits, sports teams, churches, parent/teacher groups and millions of other real-world organizations to communicate across group and member networks and to publish and share information, regardless of the preferred networks of each of the group members.. The company is venture capital funded and based in Newport Beach, Calif. For more information on CircleUp, visit http://www.circleup.com.
Yahoo! Messenger® is a registered trademark of Yahoo, Inc. AIM® is a registered trademark of AOLLLC. Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. Microsoft Office Outlook is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. SmartMessage™, SmartMessage Center™ , Smarter Messaging™ and CauseFeed™ are all trademarks of CircleUp, Inc. Blackbaud, Blackbaud Sphere, Kintera and Sphere Connect are all trademarks of Blackbaud, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Charleston, SC. - November 17, 2008 - CircleUp, Inc., a leading provider of non-profit group messaging services, announced today at Blackbaud's 2008 Conference for Nonprofits the availability of SmartMessage - a suite of powerful new services for non-profit, education and government organizations enabling fast, efficient and time-saving communication with volunteers, supporters, donors, staff and participants over e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
Using the new SmartMessage services, volunteer leaders, event organizers and other group members send messages to contacts from Blackbaud Sphere, Microsoft Office Outlook®, Yahoo! Messenger®, AIM®, Facebook® and other sources. Everyone in the group responds quickly and easily using SmartMessage and the responses come back in one consolidated view in an easy to use and share web page format. This helps everyone in the group to avoid the usual blizzard of "reply all" email responses.
Benefits for Nonprofit Organizations include increasing volunteer and supporter involvement, integrating with existing sites easily and adding new funding channels to increase fundraising volume and efficiency.
Services and features now available with the new SmartMessage suite of services add significant value for nonprofits:
- Integration with Blackbaud Sphere, the powerful software as a service technology platform that enables organizations to quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently.
- Powerful SmartMessage "Inbox" web service which allows non-profits to quickly and easily add full-featured messaging right within their existing events, donor or volunteer web sites and pages.
- New "CauseFeed" group news feed service that provides fresh and relevant content to any non-profit site. Like FriendFeed or Facebook news feeds, CauseFeed provides ongoing updates that are made by anyone in the group so that, depending on user-set permission levels, everyone in the group can see who has sent out new message, who has responded, what photos have been uploaded and more.
- Customized Microsoft Office Outlook toolbar branded for individual nonprofits that combines access to Outlook contacts with integration to Blackbaud Sphere data and the nonprofit Web site, letting the user work where they spend most their day... in Outlook.
- SmartMessage pre-formatted templates designed specifically for nonprofits that help to jumpstart efficiency and time savings when asking for volunteers, soliciting contributions, event planning and scheduling, gathering feedback and suggestions, donor management or many other messaging situations that consume so much time and fill up your inbox when communicating with groups.
SmartMessage for non-profits, including the Blackbaud Sphere integration and all other applications and features are available today exclusively to Blackbaud customers. Any Blackbaud customers or partners interested in making the Outlook toolbar available for their nonprofits with custom branding and links to the organization's Web site can get an evaluation copy of the toolbar at http://www.circleup.com/smartmessage/tools/outlook and contact Daniel Scalisi, Vice President of Business Development (dscalisi@circleup.com) for details and/or a complimentary webinar demonstration.
About CircleUp
CircleUp provides group communications technologies and services which enable actionable and efficient interactions across diverse social, email, mobile, messaging and private web networks. CircleUp's SmartMessage™ private label platform integrates seamlessly with existing destinations and software, helping non-profits, sports teams, churches, parent/teacher groups and millions of other real-world organizations to communicate across group and member networks and to publish and share information, regardless of the preferred networks of each of the group members.. The company is venture capital funded and based in Newport Beach, Calif. For more information on CircleUp, visit http://www.circleup.com.
Yahoo! Messenger® is a registered trademark of Yahoo, Inc. AIM® is a registered trademark of AOLLLC. Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. Microsoft Office Outlook is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. SmartMessage™, SmartMessage Center™ , Smarter Messaging™ and CauseFeed™ are all trademarks of CircleUp, Inc. Blackbaud, Blackbaud Sphere, Kintera and Sphere Connect are all trademarks of Blackbaud, Inc. All Rights Reserved.