Award Winning Blog - Agitator

Like It or Not, Your Newsletter Is Multi-media

An interesting article in Fortune asks: “So should a magazine like Time, Rolling Stone or Fortune still think of itself as in the magazine business if a growing portion of its readers are seeing the content it produces online? Or should it produce content of all types under its brand there? This kind of existential […]

Learn More June 13, 2006

Online Transactions Habit Forming?

According to an (expensive!) annual study conducted for Shop.org by Forrester Research and cited here, online retail spending will top $200 billion in 2006, up 20% from last year. We think online shopping is great practice for online giving, as consumers become more and more comfortable with the practice, including providing their credit card info […]

Learn More June 8, 2006

Is Rising Number of Cell Phones Lowering Reliability of Polls?

A recent study by the Pew Research Center finds that cell-only Americans – an estimated 7%-9% of the general public – are significantly different in many ways from those reachable on a landline. They are younger, less affluent, less likely to be married or to own their home, and more liberal on many political questions. […]

Learn More June 7, 2006

Cutting Edge on a Global Scale

Two of my favorite non-profit entrepreneurs are Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi, former World Bank staffers who have created a remarkable and pioneering organization called Global Giving. With vision and tenacity –and against great odds — they've created an effective and robust project-specific approach that brings literally a world of giving opportunities right to donors' […]

Learn More June 6, 2006

Wine, Shotguns and Causes

In our Donor Trends study on Generational Giving released last fall we noted that the Post-Boomer generation of donors (those born after 1964) “are most open to groups they haven't heard about, while at the same time least familiar with groups already working on the issues they do care about.” In short, non-profit ''brands'' are […]

Learn More June 5, 2006

US Broadband Usage — Latest Figures

The Pew Internet Project has just released its latest study on home broadband adoption in the US. Not interested? Then you ought to be fired. Some teaser facts from a very fertile report: 42% of all American adults (84 million) have a high-speed internet connection at home; 35% of all internet users have posted content […]

Learn More June 4, 2006