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Gulliver’s Travels, Shock and Awe, and Other Recent Phenomena

Lord help the Lilliputians. Judging from the excited phone calls along the grapevine, the blog traffic, the hits on the search engines and the comments of the 50 or so folks who make up the high priesthood of the online fundraising world, youd think that last weeks $60 million+ cash acquistion by Blackbaud of TheTarget […]

Learn More January 23, 2007

American Optimism Suits 2007 Fundraising

Pew Research Center recently published survey findings regarding Americans’ attitudes about their financial prospects for the coming year. If optimism equates with donor largesse, nonprofits should be in for a good 2007. Some key findings: About four-in-ten American adults say they are living comfortably, while another three-in-ten say they have enough money to meet expenses […]

Learn More January 22, 2007

Vidmeter

If you need to monitor pop culture for professional reasons (sure!), or if you're just killing time before your next meeting, check out Vidmeter, a service that ranks viewing of online videos across all the major players — YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, MySpace, Atom Films, Revver and others. The first of our readers to […]

Learn More January 21, 2007

Lust

Did we say “lust?” We meant HOUTLUST, a nifty blog originating in The Netherlands that offers a worldwide window to current nonprofit advertising and social marketing campaigns. You're likely to see as much or more material regarding non-US initiatives as you will campaigns underway in the US of A, but all the better to get […]

Learn More January 20, 2007

Election 2006 Online

The Pew Internet Project has released Election 2006 Online, a thorough study of Americans' use of the internet in the recent elections. While this report deals specifically with the internet as a source of political campaign news and as a vehicle for engaging with the elections, the patterns it reveals are important for all cause […]

Learn More January 19, 2007

Smarter Donors, Better Nonprofits

About 5-6 weeks ago, the Chronicle of Philanthropy ran a great opinion piece (available to subscribers only) about the need for more sophisticated and sustained media coverage of nonprofits. Written by Robert Egger, president of the D.C. Central Kitchen, agent provocateur and blogger. We’ve been thinking about it ever since. Egger sees three benefits to […]

Learn More January 18, 2007