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 data for the year past and has some interesting snippets...

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 The Site we’ve been using throughout this example...

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 builders firm had purchased it a few years ago from...

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 US had made around the UK health service. He then...

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 but very very exciting! Anyway one thing that has...

Figured I'd go back and look at some of the functionality we've added to BBNC which may have been overlooked in the razzmatazz of other releases. I found one piece that I know I've not been pushing and haven't seen others pushing much in the UK either...so for the UK audience can we talk...

So it's getting up to Easter time and everyone is heading out on an extended weekend here in the UK. I know our US cousins don't get this weekend so I expect to come back to a massive number of emails...especially as I've decided to take a few days off at the other end as well. However before...

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the Communicating Success 2009 conference run by Action Planning . This was by far my biggest audience thus far (around 400 people were there) although...