Events

A friend recommended a new online presentation-cum-video tool and I'm dying to know what others think of it.

This business blog highlights just how important new media is to all facets of modern life. http://tinyurl.com/5r3ae8

Last weekend I went to a charity ball and it made me think about fundraising, donors and the impact of the current economic climate.

According to Nick O'Neill's "allfacebook - the unofficial facebook blog", Facebook has now given Google access to index the content in its users' groups and events sections, or at least those that use

The credit crunch and the recession give us a wonderful opportunity to tell our trustees why our fundraising is struggling.

Friends and colleagues of Lindsey Burgess, a UNICEF community fundraiser, who died in December 2006, are once again hosting a charity netball tournament to celebrate her life.

Blackbaud is asking its business partners, clients, suppliers and staff to put forward teams to take part in an 'It's a Knockout'-style tournament later this year to help raise money for charity.

On 19th and 20th April six Guinness Premiership rugby matches will turn pink to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care in a brand extension of the charity’s successful Tickled Pink programme.

Suddenly, everyone in the United States is talking about "time for change". No presidential hopeful can utter a sentence without the word. Not that anyone quite knows what they mean!!

Nonetheless, we could do worse than to adopt the mantra ourselves for fundraising in 2008. Time to do things a bit differently, time to be bold, time to make mistakes, time to lead rather than follow.

Flash mobs can offer a useful campaigning or PR tool to charities and voluntary organiations.