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Top Ten Cliches That Work In Copy

From our archives. Happy Holidays! From Guest Agitator Jerry Huntsinger … If youve heard it over and over and over again, yes its a cliché.But is a cliché bad for your letter? Nope, because a cliché turns a light on inside your readers mind. Avoiding clichés leaves the reader in darkness. 1. Heres how you […]

Learn More December 27, 2006

101 Ways To Brew Up A Great Idea

From our archives. Happy Holidays! Earlier, we forwarded Guy Kawasaki's advice for avoiding dumb organizational decisions. On a more positive note, Scott Baradell offers some rather creative suggestions for coming up with great ideas. We'd like to add to the list, but we're stumped!

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What is the Web 2.0 Anyway? And Who Cares?

From our archives. Happy Holidays! For those of you for whom sorting your email is a major tech challenge, all the buzz over “Web 2.0” must be a real mystery. For most pundits, the concept revolves around “user-generated content” posted out there on the web for all to see. Of course, an email is user-generated […]

Learn More December 26, 2006

RSS? As Important as Your Paycheck!

From our archives. Happy Holidays! If you're not using RSS feeds, you oughta be be fired. Or at least your computer should be taken away (why bother, a typewriter will do for you). Most of us require regular news and information updates to do our jobs, to say nothing of pursuing hobbies and fetishes. An […]

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US Gov’t Plans To Thwart Gates Foundation

It's Christmas Day, but The Agitator staff abandoned their families and fruitcakes and came to work specially because this news is so critically important to the fundraising world and those we serve. From The Onion: WASHINGTON, DCThe Bush Administration unveiled a new $64 billion spending package Monday for a joint CIAPentagon program aimed at neutralizing […]

Learn More December 25, 2006

Top 10 Things Fundraisers Should Monitor

From our archives. Happy Holidays! For fundraisers managing reasonably complex fundraising programs, there's always a danger of missing the forest for the trees. You're awash in data and deadlines. Your messengers — CEO, program staff, board members — have lost your phone number. Your mail shop has just gone bankrupt and closed its doors with […]

Learn More December 23, 2006