First post of the New Year! Hope you had a great holiday period. Back to work now and carrying on my Mobile discussions that we were having before the new year. So how often have you taken in 650 gifts in the first 20 mins of trialling a new fundraising tool? Would you consider that a success? That happened...

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...

Blackbaud Netcommunity version 6.15 has just gone into a controlled release phase and is almost ready to hit the streets. This is a major step on for us at Blackbaud as it is the first version that is running on our new Infinity platform . I thought today I'd share a couple of the cool (or in some...

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...

So the Blackbaud Europe conference is upon us once more (starts Monday 12th). It's been rebranded this year as the Relationship Management Conference and has some excellent speakers. Keynote this year is Paul Williamson , head of ticketing for the 2012 Olympics. Looking forward to that. How he plans...