Blogs

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...

The announcement yesterday morning that the Duchess of Cambridge had gone into labour generated extensive and excessive chatter on social media channels.

Would you like your trust fundraising results to grow?

This week's episode of BBC Radio 4's comedy programme 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' included a round in which the panellists were invited to suggest "some obscure charit

Last week I attended the launch of a new digital fundraising platform iRaiser. It's not entirely new, as Adfinitas' iRaiser is already in use by 50 not-for-profits in Europe.

I recently came across a charity that has been running a £3 million appeal for new facilities that has now got stuck.

I followed the Institute of Fundraising National Convention’s twitter stream with interest last week and was, like many of my friends and colleagues in the sector, amazed at just how many times certain words, phrases or ideas came to the fore.

Lucy Gowar’s latest blog sums it up nicely around the use of the word innovation every other sentence!

A “cash mob” involves a group of people coming together en masse to spend an agreed amount at a local independent shop.

For our fundraising teams 2013 has already been a year of tremendous learning.  But the biggest, conclusive, insight so far is this:

We cannot fundraise alone.