Chief Operating Officer John Patton led the charge for ThePort Network at the Direct Marketing Association’s exciting annual event held recently in San Francisco. The city by the bay hosted thousands of marketing professionals in an unprecedented display of the latest technologies in the world of traditional and digital marketing. ThePort team was pleased to serve the conference [...]

ThePort Network’s esteemed partner, Blackbaud, is sponsoring  one of the most anticipated nonprofit gatherings of the year, October 20-22 in our nation’s capital. The technology-focused event boasts a new venue (The Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center) and a sellout crowd of not-for-profit leaders looking to take their constituents to the next level of social networking [...]

Venture capitalists from around the globe traveled to Atlanta’s beautiful Georgia Aquarium this week for Venture Atlanta 2010. Making waves at the event were 20 carefully selected technology companies asked to present on the main stage. We’re proud to say ThePort Network and our CEO, Bob Cramer, were among the privileged firms who captured the attention [...]

Calling all association leaders! You’re invited to check out an informative, relatively brief white paper on topics associations are currently focusing on vis a vis social media. We’re happy to provide answers to the most compelling questions confronting association executives in the last quarter of 2010.       Is your association nearing a point where you and your [...]

In any social networking community, there are many tangible benefits to choosing a fully integrated, custom platform as opposed to a generic, out-of-the-box version. A paramount difference is the way in which a white label community will perfectly reflect your brand and differentiate your online community from others. As a fluid component of your website, [...]

The growth of social media on the internet is nothing short of staggering. Consider the number of registered members now interacting in the most popular networking communities, as of summer 2010: Facebook = 500 million. Twitter = 145 million. LinkedIn = 75 million. Nonprofits and associations are recognizing the enormous power of these numbers in terms of [...]