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The fourth NFPtweetup will be held at Breast Cancer Care's offices in London on the evening of 24th September.

While in the commercial world discussions continue as to how the owners of Twitter might best get income from their free microblogging service, back in February this year the first Global Twestival - a real-world fundraising festival organised largely through Twitter - raised some $250,000 for charity:water.

Building on this success, a second international Twestival is taking place next month – from 10th through 13th September. But this time, rather than all events around the world focusing on a single charity, groups of volunteers have voted for the charity they would like their local city’s event to raise money for.

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Back in May last year I wrote about the ‘Hype Cycle’ devised by technology research company Gartner to illustrate the adoption, maturity, and business application of specific technologies, and I specifically considered where on the cycle various online fundraising initiatives lay.

So with the release of the the 2009 Hype Cycle Report, I was interested to compare where things are now compared to where they were last year - and there are certainly some interesting shifts from the perspective of the digital fundraiser.

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There has been quite a bit of online discussion about the initiative launched earlier this month to help publicise the rebranding of the Christian Children’s Fund to ChildFund International, whereby they are aiming to acquire Twitter followers to @childfund by offering to send farming supplies to a family in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya or Ethiopia for every 200 followers gained.

I must admit, the first thing I wondered when I heard about the campaign was quite how the funding of the farming supplies was being provided. Presumably not just from the charity’s usual funds, as the incentive link then just wouldn’t make sense. Yet there was no mention of any matching grant from a major donor to incentivise the sign-up of followers – which would have made sense. It turns-out I wasn’t alone in being confused, as revealed by Geoff Livingstone from the PR agency behind the campaign in a blog post earlier today where he seeks to clarify the situation

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I've just searched to see if there is a single list of social media sites that offer "for good" programmes for charities or nonprofits.

The Institute of Fundraising South West regional group today held a conference on online fundraising and social media.

The owner of the twitter.co.uk domain has found himself in a rather strong position given the popularity of the .com version of the name.