During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits , Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission . It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed...

This is a follow-up to Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0) that originally appeared on this blog and also as a guest post on Beth Kanter's blog . One of the key takeaways from Part 0 is that once you stop just playing around with social media then you need to start putting together a strategy...

Posted on WebCPA.com and featured in the October 19 issue of Accounting Today In a tight economy, the right tech mix helps nonprofits retain income levels, services No one had to tell the nonprofit sector that the world economy was slipping deeper into recession. Relying largely on donors, memberships...

We must be on to something. In just two days, Blackbaud is close to completely filling up NetWits Summer Camp , our free five-day series of web seminars about how nonprofits can better use the Internet. So we've gone ahead and added five more sessions during the week of August 24th to 28th. Visit...

Raheel Gauba's blog Sans Profit Design got me thinking about website usability. It's not a topic talked a lot about in the nonprofit sector these days. A lot of time, resources, and money is spent on lots of website initiatives and tools, but not enough attention is paid to simple usability....

Today is the Digital Leap conference in London. It's all about fundraising, social networking, and online charity success in the UK and Europe. Digital Leap is being held at the ICO Conference Centre in central London. There are a great set of speakers at the event including: Ted Hart, CEO, Hart...

I am spending a lot of time these days looking at numbers. Lots and lots of numbers. Mostly because I'm working on a new book and exploring the wonderful and strange world of online fundraising metrics. (More on that in future blog posts) One thing that has got my attention are some of the latest...

I dig speaking at nonprofit conferences and events, and one of my favorite topics to cover is the real-time use of social media . It's the perfect mix of emerging technologies, social media, communities, and the web - some of my favorite things. The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter...

The use of SaaS-based applications has grown dramatically in the commercial sector over the last several years and nonprofits have recently begun understanding how SaaS can help them free more time and resources for their mission. The needs of nonprofits and the technology behind SaaS will continue to...

There is a lot going on in the nonprofit world these days. Here are some excellent blog posts to keep you in the know. Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks Beth Kanter does a review of the Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report produced by ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common...