Simon and I were talking the other day about fashions in web design and whether people just copied off each others’ sites or whether there are best practices emerging. So I thought that it would be a good idea to have a history of charity homepages, starting from now.

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’:

I was sent a link to this article yesterday by a friend (who works as a fundraising consultant). She asked me what I thought about it ‘from a data perspective’. Given that the sample was so small, did I think it was indicative of anything useful to know?

With the seventh NFPtweetup upon us, you should be well on your way to knowing what to expect. But how did it come about, and what are the highlights you may have missed?

YouthNet’s online guide to life, TheSite.org, is a trusted source of information, advice and guidance on whole plethora of issues, ranging from relationships and sex, to the law and health.

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.

This coming Thursday is the next NFPtweetup, taking place at JustGiving’s new offices. As part of a blog series leading up to the event, I was asked to share some thoughts on the event, especially for those coming along for the first time that may not know what to expect.

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.

We had a fantastic 6th NFPtweetup at Breast Cancer Care last Thursday (check our posterous for the briefest summary). So, before the night’s memories and #NFPtweetup mentions fade, I thought I’d try to capture the essence of it here.

So, just what is on the horizon for us in 2010?

There is of course going to be an election (finally!). Some say it will be as early as March, others that Brown will push it until the last minute in May.

When I look at my Twitter-stream, I find that there are some people whose tweets regularly stand out. They offer a beguiling mix of information and wit that burst onto my screen like verbal fireworks. Beautifully formed thoughts that give the impression of having just rolled effortlessly off the keyboard.

Dear next beautiful intern,

Since today’s my last day at Beautiful World and you have yet to start work, this letter is the best way I could think of to do some kind of a handover to you.

I won’t be going through all the ins and outs of working here.

We have this wonderful intern. She’s bright, ruthlessly efficient, a real pleasure to have around.

She’s learned about fundraising and marketing, and loads about data analysis, since she’s been with us.

There’s only one problem: she’s leaving to do an MA.