New media

What is the purpose of UK Fundraising's page on Facebook?

Spring is here! Yes!

Congratulations to @jessedee on Slideshare. He created a slidedeck that featured an appeal for funding with a very clear promotional benefit for the donor. And it worked.

Facebook has changed the design of fan pages today, which also adds few useful functions.

Just a quick thought for now in-between reserach for other articles...

Since the start of this week, I've received nine separate asks for donations or sponsorship from different people doing all sorts of cool things for the causes they support. All of the asks have been via social media and all but one are from connections I have, but that Iwouldn't call close. I checked a few individual's tweetstreams and it appears that they sent quite a number of (the same) asks to their contact lists.

I have no problem with people asking for support, I just wonder how effective it is when we try to scale-up our social media contacts like this?

I work within the Digital Department at Cancer Research UK and my role is to get as many people as possible fundraising online.

Now that the snow has finally gone, and some of us are still counting the cost of Christmas in both £s and lbs, as well as getting over the shock of being intimately reacquainted with the inside of th

Very interesting approach of ActionAid's new campaign "What a Feeling" resonated in few interesting blog posts this week.

San Francisco-based SwipeGood has come up with an attractive combination of rounding up purchases on credit cards, donating the difference to charity, and doing so on an ongoing, monthly basis.

Technology and support charity Lasa is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its online technology advice and information resource, knowledgebase, by holding a free "technology hour of service" on Twitt