Peer to peer fundraising, Friends asking friends, events based fundraising, team fundraising - it has lots of names but essentially the biggest area of online fundraising in the UK today is centred around asking your friends to give you money for a cause whilst you run a marathon or climb Kilimanjaro...

I got an email from Google the other day telling me that I was being moved over onto the new Beta for Google Analytics and I headed over to have a look at the new features. Firstly they have tidied up the interface to make it easier to navigate around which helps but they've also added some fantastic...

Blackbaud will be hosting the Social Media Strategies Panel at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on Monday, March 14 from 9:30 a.m to 10:30 a.m. CT. The panel will feature leaders from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, March of Dimes, and Make-a-Wish Foundation discussing social...

Charleston, S.C. (June 29, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB ) today announced that it will be the exclusive nonprofit sales channel for ThePort Network ™ social networking solutions. The companies entered into an exclusive partnership to help nonprofits further engage their constituents by combining...

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...

So I've been a little bit lax (well a big bit lax) lately with my blog posts and I apologise for that. I've been busy over the last couple of months on various projects. Not least of which is the upcoming release of version 6.15 of Netcommunity - which I will talk about at length over the next...

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. So I've found a list of 5 great resources...

At the Blackbaud Relationship Management conference I discussed Challenge Event Fundraising and the best ways to get the most out of these events. I'd like to share some of the findings but first some background. The average UK gift is around £10 (Source CAF) with the average Challenge Event gifts...

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 needed processing time for the UK end users. If...

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...