It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. The conference was amazing! Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together [...]

Think back to your college days for a moment…you’re walking across campus, tired from the night before, wondering if you’ll be late to class…and you see someone who catches your eye.  In 3 seconds, you evaluate their overall look:  Clothes, Hair, Smile, Approachability, Confidence and even hygiene. Then in an instant… ….you decide what to [...]

Blackbaud released its 2011 Online Giving report today. The report combines findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data to provide the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. The report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit organizations, online major giving data [...]

Social media is all the rage, but does it actually help create real change in the world? The folks at Best Friends Animal Society would answer with a resounding yes!   Best Friends has introduced the Invisible Dog Campaign, a nod to the invisible dog leash from the ‘70s and ‘80s. “Invisible dogs” refer to [...]

Have you ever thought about creating a game or using game mechanics as part of your online strategy? What if I told you that it was possible to get nearly 20 MILLION views/plays for a well thought out, nicely executed, message packed game? Sounds crazy, I know, but Joel Bartlett and his team did just [...]

The internet has been around for a long time now (sort of). Back in the early 1960s is when things really started to take shape. What we know as the internet today is actually the by-product of a few visionary people who saw great potential in allowing computers to share information for research and development [...]

Although Google+ has been all the talk amongst techies the past couple weeks, Google has asked that non-personal accounts not be created, leaving Nonprofits and businesses in the dark. Fret not, however, as the number of nonprofits using Twitter continues to grow.   However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s [...]

With all the buzz around Google+ in the #nptech world, I wonder how long it will take for nonprofit supporters to join the party? According to Robert Scoble, yo mamma won’t be using Google+ anytime soon. And while us techies will enjoy watching the steeplechase that is sure to be Google vs. Facebook in the [...]

I spend a couple of days a month on the road, mostly presenting at conferences and user forums on email best practices. Often, I am the only presenter on good old email in a conference packed with sessions about social media and mobile. At these times I can really relate to direct mail specialists, who’ve [...]

Yesterday saw the announcement of a new study by ShareThis, in partnership with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners.  Articles on TechCrunch and AllFacebook revieiwng this data seem to focus on Facebook‘s stronghold on the clickthroughs of shared links, at 38% of all links shared by social means.  However, while this specific number is impressive [...]