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Does the end always justify the means?  Does innovation always lead to an improvement?  Today’s blog is an open question around a service I’m sure many of you have come across this year – as I have recently.  Here’s the story...

Dear Mr Shawcross

Earlier this week Blackbaud Europe’s Martin Campbell wrote about the impa

Charity bike rides usually consist of dozens or hundreds of people all heading off to cover mile after mile on their own two-wheel bicycles. But why stop at two wheels and one saddle?

The recent news that online giving platform CharityGiving has been suspended<

IMRG Capgemini are forecasting online spending to be around £87 billion in 2013 and 85% of this is through some 50 retailers who will all give 10% or more to charity through affinity marketin

If you ever doubted the value of Twitter as a fundamental component of your professional fundraising development, prepare to think again.

I note that the Irish government has given the go-ahead for the establishment of a Charities Regulatory Authority in 2014.

How do you make a charity's annual report interesting and get more people to read it? You could try emulating Cancer Research UK's approach.

All the training I’ve been on and blogs I’ve read suggest that you shouldn’t start using tools like Twitter for your organisations if you can’t keep it up.  Little and often is the key according to those who know far more than me.

I was delivering workshops for most of last week and didn’t use Twitter at all for three days.  Once I got to this point, I decided to hold out for the rest of the week as an experiment to see what would actually happen for me personally and for our organisation.  Here’s what we noticed...