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Yoda takes to Twitter to dispense fundraising wisdom, he does

If you ever doubted the value of Twitter as a fundamental component of your professional fundraising development, prepare to think again.

Can you get withdrawal from Twitter?

All the training I’ve been on and blogs I’ve read suggest that you shouldn’t start using tools like Twitter for your organisations if you can’t keep it up.  Little and often is the key according to those who know far more than me.

I was delivering workshops for most of last week and didn’t use Twitter at all for three days.  Once I got to this point, I decided to hold out for the rest of the week as an experiment to see what would actually happen for me personally and for our organisation.  Here’s what we noticed...

Fundraising technology conference Twitter campaign to raise funds for charity

Tweet tweet tweet - photo: Howard Lake on Flickr.com

A Twitter hashtag campaign is due to raise up to £250 during this Friday's Institute of Fundraising Technology Special Interest Group annual conference in London.

Institute extends policy helpline to Facebook and Twitter

Institute of Fundraising Code of Fundraising Practice

The Institute of Fundraising’s (IoF) policy helpline service is being extended to Twitter and Facebook from Friday this week.

Aviva's Twitter campaign raises £97,774 in 24 hours for Railway Children

Norwich City sponsor Aviva donates shirt sponsorship to Railway Children

A one-day Twitter campaign by insurance company Aviva has generated £97,774 for Railway Children, the charity that helps children under 16 who have run away from home or are at risk of doing

Google Analytics for charities, in handy tweet-sized tips

Dipka, Dawn and Kirsty at Google Analytics Training with Periscopix

Last week Dawn Newton from Healthy Planet organised a free Google Analytics training day for charities, delivered by

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