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So Facebook won't let you take credit card gifts (or even have a secure page) and Twitter has nowhere to even ask for gifts. You've created the greatest viral video in the world but you can't get people to click through to your site and give...
Blackbaud Mobile has lots of interesting and cool tools for all sorts of things from social media widgets through to QR codes but one area that is extremely exciting is the concept of Regular Giving via a mobile phone. How does this work? Well we know...
So have you heard of Blackbaud Mobile ? We launched it a few weeks ago and I'm as excited about it as I have been about anything we've ever done. We could have just gone for a mobile giving platform which integrates with the Raiser's Edge...
Did you know that the old iphone (the 3GS) had the same specs as a PC from 2001? So it’s predicted that accessing your website on a mobile device will be the prevalent medium in just 2 short years but are you ready to do this? Recently I went round the...
I've had a lot of enquiries about the new changes to how websites can store cookies which the EU has announced and will be putting into place on the 26th of this month. I wanted to put something up here so that we can help allay fears around use of...
This month Blackbaud has teamed up with Charity Insight to provide some snippets of data about UK giving online over the last few months/year. The first post which has just gone online was focussed on giving overall in 2010. These numbers are based on...
When you engage with people you make them feel part of the process this automatically creates loyalty and helps with understanding. “The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.” William Makepeace Thackery...
Deciding what you want to put on your homepage and what you want people to be confronted with when they hit the site initially is very important. Clicking once again into the Edit settings area of the page will present you with a list of areas, one of...
I went to visit a local (to me) historic site recently, Cumbernauld House . This house has been sitting since 1731 and is on the site of a castle which goes back centuries before that. When I went along I realised the house had fallen on hard times. A...
So you are working in the not for profit space and want to get into Social Media but don't have the first clue how to start? Well you made it here so that's at least a small step . However there is a lot more to it than my ramblings on this blog...
I'm excited that BBNC 6.10 has released this week. It went up on our website on Wednesday. It has some superb new features and functions. I've already spoken about the changes we've made around Gift Aid in 6.10 which should free up some much...
The information commissioner in the UK stated that up to 5 million young people have profile updates on a social media site that could adversely affect education or job prospects. So are you monitoring who is saying what and how online? Here are some...
So it's the middle of a recession right? doom, gloom, despair...etc...etc..etc...So here is some good news - People gave more last year than the previous year and the trend seems to be going up...not a little more but 18% more. That's a reasonable...
I saw something yesterday that made me realise the amazing power of the social network and felt that I should really talk about it. Graham Linehan , an Irish TV writer, made a comment on Twitter about another comment that some right wing folks in the...
I've been away for a while and for that I apologise! Since my last post I've been holed up for a few weeks in our Charleston office strategising around our online products and preparing for work we're going to do next year...all top secret...
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