Twitter

I was disappointed to find there isn't a Twitter screen at this year's International Fundraising Congress.

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about some of the most useful things I'd learnt from attending the NFPTweetup meetings held in London. The eighth event was held on 15th September and, having had a couple of days to reflect on what we saw and discussed, I'd like to add the following three things to that list of useful learnings.

There are two new options of those major social media tools that we are waiting for this week - Twitter Button and Facebook Places.

Evan Williams (CEO of Twitter) and Biz Stone (Co-Founder of Twitter) are giving you a chance to feature your Twitter usage on their very own website called Hope140

Camera manufacturer Leica Camera AG (@leica_camera on Twitter) is currently encouraging its customers and others to help it support cancer charity AICR.

Justcoz.org offers a new way to use Twitter to help promote charitable causes.

Not about prospect research, but I found this story very interesting.

Twitter has begun to makes its new 'places' feature available to users around the world, enabling them both to tag their own tweets by location and to find tweets posted at a particular location, such

Fundraising magazine has published the 2010 Most Influential in Fundraising list, as voted for by readers of the magazine.