Archive - Aug 2010

For those of us who work on Gmail as primary e-mail client the announcement of its new feature - Priority Inbox - becomes a very, very helpful solution.

I'm still appalled at the Newsnight 'expose' of direct dialogue and door-to-door fundraising.

Diaspora is a new social network which we can expect to lau

The news that the Royal British Legion has accepted a (likely multi-million pound) donation from Tony Blair raises an interesting question.  At what point does charitable purpose outweigh ethical considerations when trying to do good?

I took a look at our local free newspaper the other day, before it went into the recycling. I was intrigued by one article in particular.

Applications using the ability of smartphones and other mobile devices to pinpoint your precise location at any time have been a key topic for discussion amongst digital marketers over the last year or so, and were also something I covered in my Digital Fundraising Hot Topics Session at this summer’s Institute of Fundraising National Convention here in London last month.

Up to now, a lot of the location-based application chatter has focused on the new breed of specifically designed location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla. However, it was only a matter of time before the global market leader in social networking responded. Hence, last week we saw the launch of Facebook Places – an extension to existing Facebook functionality that will enable smartphone wielding Facebookers to share their location with their Friends, be alerted when Friends are close by, check-in to specific locations, and share details of good places with others in their social network. Click here to read more on givinginadigitalworld.org