Submitted by howardlake on 8 May, 2008 - 11:49.
Google Grants, the search engine's first corporate philanthropy programme, was five years old last month.
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Submitted by johnthompson on 7 May, 2008 - 12:26.
Google’s homepage is currently providing a link to make donations to either UNICEF or DirectRelief to help support their efforts in cyclone-hit Myanmar
Submitted by bryanmiller on 1 May, 2008 - 21:01.
The 2008 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study has just been released and contains a wealth of data which will be of real interest to you if you're involved in online fundraising or campaigning.
Submitted by bryanmiller on 23 April, 2008 - 19:28.
Ever since Facebook launched its open developers platform almost a year ago Facebook Apps have been all the rage, including a wide range of Apps developed in support of various charities. However, for anyone not especially into software development the idea of creating your own Facebook App may well never have occurred. Where do you start even if you want to have a go?
Submitted by howardlake on 17 April, 2008 - 15:34.
Amazon.co.uk has announced a new widget to help its associates sell more books and earn income from them.
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Submitted by bryanmiller on 16 April, 2008 - 12:03.
A bit of fun from telecoms company Orange, who have set-up a survey-based site that uses your responses to questions on internet use to calculate your 'Internet Age' - from 'Online Toddler' to 'Virtual Vetran'.
Submitted by bryanmiller on 8 April, 2008 - 09:04.
Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has just released its first dedicated report on social networking in the UK. It's free to download and makes very useful reading - essentially an extremely well researched one-stop primer on the whole subject.
Submitted by bryanmiller on 8 April, 2008 - 09:00.
A common question that crops-up when I'm discussing the potential for Web 2.0 approaches to supporter engagement is whether such things as Facebook and MySpace aren't just the domain of 'young people' (a flexibly applied term - usually defined as 'younger than our supporters').
Submitted by bryanmiller on 8 April, 2008 - 08:56.
I'm afraid that a combination of some especially busy weeks at work and my home broadband going down for a while has left my blog rather sparsely updated recently.
However, I have had the opportunity to write a short piece for the e-newsletter of the Resource Alliance on one of the subjects I've been working on quite a lot recently - Community Fundraising 2.0.
Submitted by howardlake on 1 April, 2008 - 11:25.
TimeBank and Age Concern are among the UK charities whose websites have made it into The Telegraph's list of the 101 most useful websites.
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