What’s great about Steve’s posts is that they come from a place of data – fact – rather than opinion (as Adam is fond of saying). There really isn’t enough hard, meaningful data shared in the UK on charitable giving (with JustGiving being a notable exception). It would be great to see Blackbaud doing something similar to this in the UK.

Intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe. How local are our friends? Where are the highest concentration of friendships? How do political and geological boundaries affect them?

Yesterday, @teridoubtfire stumbled across a charity Twitter account, clearly run by an agency (the people that worked at the agency were the only ones retweeting it), that was busily tweeting celebrities, one after the other, with messages that looked like this:

Yesterday’s Chart of the Day was this insight into how Twitter users in the US spend their time on it, taken from a ‘big study’ by The Pew Research Center ‘focused entirely on Twitter’.

I took part in two social media panels today at the Women’s Resource Centre’s Facing Our Future Conference at the Cass Business School, alongside Fiona McLaren from Amnesty UK and @BeckyPants, founder of whomadeyourpants – a cooperative in Southampton, ‘empowering marginalised women and making utterly splendid pants’.

If you’re a Facebook user – which, if you’re reading this, in all likelihood you are! – then you probably noticed lots of you friends changing their profile picture to a cartoon character over the weekend and wondered what it was all about.

Will Facebook ever displace Google as a search engine? Probably not. But, it could quickly erode Google’s dominance as the way people find information.

We were pretty excited when we discovered, a little while back via Twitter, that one of our campaigns had been nominated for a new social media award.

Whilst looking for one of my presentations on Slideshare to send to someone just now, I stumbled across this collaborative slide deck I contributed to earlier in the year, on trends in charity communications over the next ten years, which was curated by our friends at Bright One and CharityComms.

It’s the last day today that NCVO members can submit their questions to me, via the NCVO website, on online fundraising. I’m intrigued to find out what they’re going to be!

Those nice people at Blackbaud, makers of Adam’s favourite database, The Raiser’s Edge, have published what they call ‘The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving’ based on data they have collected from 1,364 nonprofit organisations in the US.

Hot on the heels of Simon and Anna’s presentation last week, and post yesterday, here’s the presentation I gave at NCVO’s seminar, ‘Campaigning Futures: What will campaigning look like in in 5 year’s time’:

Last week, by some curious twist of fate involving easyJet, Rachel Beer, and Amsterdam, I ended up being drafted in at the last minute to speak at an NCVO conference on the subject of online fundraising (with Anna King, who came with me and fielded a number of tricky questions – thanks Anna).

Who do you go to when your PC or printer stops working? If you’re lucky, it’s the tech person in your office, whether that’s their job title or they just seem to know lots more about tech than you do. If not, it’s your tech friend or neighbour.

At youth mobility charity Whizz-Kidz we’ve been steadily increasing our social media and real-time web use over the last 18 months; trying and testing different platforms for different communications with our supporters and users.

Dogs Trust, as most of you know, are sometimes heralded as the ‘best practice’ for NFP social media, and while we love that tag there was always a missing element for us that niggled – we never raised any money.

Diabetes UK, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation have been working together to raise awareness of the dangers of Active Fat. The fat that makes up your love handles – actually, I won’t assume that you have love handles, that would be rude…

We’re all getting very excited about the prospect of our seventh NFPtweetup event next Thursday, 10 June, and hoping it’s going to be the best yet. We decided we might have to channel some of this excitement into something constructive, that people will find useful and will set the scene for the event, so – starting today – we’re going to do a blog post per day until the day of the event.