New media

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

I was interested this week by a Harvard Business Review 'tip of the day' article which raised what I thought was an interesting question. How do you say 'no' when someone asks you for an introduction that you're just not comfortable making? The author, Jodi Glickman, talked about her experience of being asked by a colleague for an introduction to her literary agent. For a number of reasons, it wasn't appropriate as it would have reflected poorly on both the friend and Jodi and so she suggested a policy we can all adopt if faced with the same dilemma:

Twitter is just another communications channel. But every now and again it does show you how powerful it is.

There are plenty of clever people and organisations out there trying to make fundraising as simple and easy as possible.

Socia media sites like Twitter and Facebook make it remarkably easy for people to share details of charity and fundraising campaigns. Not surprisingly, this facility can be and has been hijacked.