howardlake's blog

On holiday in York this summer I was pleased and surprised to come across a 114 year old version of the donor recognition wall.

The wonderful thing about world records is that there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of ideas for new ones. Can't be the world's fastest runner, tallest woman, or wealthiest business person?

Today's final edition of the News of the World features adverts from 26 charities, eight of them full page.

This year's Institute of Fundraising Convention in London has a bloggers and social media area for the first time. The idea for this picture came from Steve Bridger, so thanks Steve.

Give As You Live have jut published an infographic showing the scale of online commerce and the opportunities for charities to gain a share of that market, using Give As You Live.

Gill Raikes MInstF Cert, Director of Fundraising at the National Trust, and a trustee of the Institute of Fundraising, has been awarded the MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.

I've been aware for a while that I am following rather a lot of people on Twitter, so today I decided to rationalise that.

You and your colleagues write some good compelling material for your website and Facebook page.

You might have spotted that Kindle ebooks are now outselling hardback books by two to one at Amazon.co.uk. Kindle itself is the bestselling product on the site.

I've just come across 'SWEDOW', a recently created acronym relevant to those fundraisers who deal with donated goods.