New media

Technology and welfare charity Lasa has published a collection of advice for charity leaders on what they should know about digital technology.

The winners of the inaugural Blackbaud Digital Fundraising Awards, held in association with UK Fundraising, were announced yesterday evening at a ceremony in London.

Blackbaud has developed a mobile app for users of its fundraising and CRM service The Raiser's Edge, enabling them to access supporter data on the move.

Online fundraising service JustGiving reports that individual fundraisers taking part in organised events reach on average 562 people on Facebook.

Online giving site JustGiving has created an online clearing house to help match would-be London Marathon runners with charities who already have a guaranteed number of places.

Campaigning and fundraising software company Engaging Networks have announced that all staff from the not-for-profit digital agency Rechord will be joining their team.

#Wewillgather is a new social media platform designed "to gather good people to help with any action" in a local area.

UK charities have doubled the number of followers they have attracted on key social media channels, according to the 2012 Social Charity Index, published today by Visceral Business.

SolarAid is using US-based crowdfunding site SunFunder to try to bring solar power to over 20,000 people in Eastern Zambia.

A version of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's video in which he said "I'm sorry" for breaking a Party pledge on tuition fees is to be released as a charity single, with the Liberal Democrat leader a