We’ve submitted two sessions for the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) 2010 in Atlanta next April – if they would be interesting to you would you be willing to vote for them (see the VOTE FOR links below)? By the way, the NTC is a GREAT conference – if you want to know about the leading [...]
Read more...The video below has been making the rounds in the social media world for several weeks now, so we thought we’d feature it here as well. Pretty good (if you can get over the incessant beat). Last year a similar video came out — see that below. I actually like this one better, although it [...]
Read more...A post over at allfacebook.com points out a new report that suggests Facebook has replaced email for sharing content. Specifically: Facebook now accounts for 24 percent of all items being shared in contrast to email which now accounts for 11.1 percent. Not surprisingly, Twitter now accounts for 10.8 percent of all items shared. I reached [...]
Read more...Megan Hawkes from Campus Crusade and I (Dave Raley) will be giving a webinar for CLA (the Christian Leadership Alliance) on Thursday, 8/27/09 at 9am PST / 12pm EST. You can sign up online for FREE at by going to this registration page. Here’s the CLA info about the webinar: 5 Keys to Successful New [...]
Read more...On the first of July, the Orlando Union Rescue Mission (OURM) launched a new website. This website is the result of six months of: strategy, information architecture, design and programming, but more than that it is a major upgrade to OURM’s online presence.
Read more...A few weeks ago, I posted that the Facebook demographics are getting older every day and posited a few implications: Facebook may be around awhile. Facebook will continue to become the killer application more and more. There is hope for fundraising on Facebook. If you want to read more of my thinking on these implications, [...]
Read more...Hi there: I want to call your attention to a front-page article in yesterday’s Seattle Times. The article refers to new nonprofits that are connecting donors to what their gifts are actually doing and specifically who they are helping. It reminds me of kiva.org that allows the donor to make a micro-enterprise loan directly to [...]
Read more...Don’t bury the lead. And for those fair readers who thought I was buried somewhere between New Castle and Poulsbo, rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, more on that at the bottom of the post. This statistic comes from a comScore report, but was brought to my attention by The Agitator. Additionally that [...]
Read more...Twitter. It’s all a buzz. Maybe you’re asking yourself the question that many are – “but what really is Twitter?” Mashable comes to the rescue with Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube. Check it out. And if you’re feeling especially lazy, I’ve grabbed one of those tutorials and placed it just below. Happy tweeting.
Read more...The mainstreaming of Twitter It’s official — Twitter is mainstream. While the microblogging service has been around since 2006, it’s just now reaching mass appeal. Case in point — last week saw a well-publicized “battle” between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and television network CNN (@cnnbrk) to see who would be the first to one million followers [...]
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