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Boomers To Give $6000 Each in 2006!

That's a BIG number from a survey just completed by Fidelity Charity Gift Fund. But then read the fine print and discover the sample was limited to those who indicated they planned to give at least $1000 during the year. Headline hyperbole aside, The Agitator knows that Boomers are indeed ready to rock the charity […]

Learn More December 15, 2006

Is Your Online Presence Keeping Pace?

Internet users are becoming more and more comfortable with the medium, taking advantage of high speed broadband access to try more of what the Web has to offer. Nonprofits need to keep pace with their online strategies and implementation, because higher expectations will be created by donor and activist exposure to sophisticated tools and sites […]

Learn More December 14, 2006

Dumb Luck?

Can you “make” luck, or must you be content with waiting for it to happen? And why does this matter to nonprofit marketers and managers? Let me start with the latter. Most of the biggest marketing breakthroughs are just that … breakthroughs. They happen because someone applies gut instinct against the grain. Not shooting from […]

Learn More December 13, 2006

Mythological Brands

Writing in his blog about “mythological brands” like Apple and James Bond, Seth Godin got me thinking about the existence – or not – of such brands in the nonprofit world. To set the stage, Godin advises: So, if I were trying to invent a mythic brand, I'd want to be sure that there was […]

Learn More December 12, 2006

Macaca – Viral Video Case Study

Remember “macaca” in the Allen v. Webb campaign? Thanks to Colin Delany at e.politics, here is a case study underscoring that not all viral communication successes just happen. Delaney, reporting on a presentation by Webb campaign manager Jessica Vanden Berg, describes the old-fashioned media hustling that made “macaca” a household word … at least in […]

Learn More December 11, 2006

Picture Worth A Thousand Words

Confess! Do you ever do this? We saw this on Seth Godin's marketing blog. As he captioned it: “Not my job!” From cleaning out the office fridge to cleaning up someone else's dirty data or their “not-quite-there” draft, we all side-step responsibility from time to time. But let's resolve to do it less! PS: Don't […]

Learn More December 10, 2006