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I was reminiscing the other day about the joy of writing and receiving letters and my friend lamented that people send emails nowadays. Well that seemed pretty obvious – yeah, I suppose they do.But just looking at my personal email inbox today I can’t find any messages from people I know; every single one is a marketing message of some description.
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Highlights from the live question and answer panel for Guardian voluntary sector network. The panel answered questions on how your organisation can best use social media to raise awareness. An overview of the Q&A in the most general sense sees panellists urging organisations to use a simple, integrative to approach to social media.
April 14, 2011
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Date: 14th October Time: 9:00 – 13:00 Venue: 90 York Way, London To help get to grips with the strategic role of events fundraising in your charity and understand how events fundraising can generate the best results, the Guardian has developed a half-day seminar that will explain how to plan, market and deliver successful fundraising [...]
April 7, 2011
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I read this article from Third Sector magazine about Michael Naidu of Mencap, who is also vice-chair of the PFRA, asking that attrition rates from all channels of fundraising be published. Currently it is only face to face (F2F) fundraising that reports attrition levels (I’m guessing this also includes door to door). I agree [...]
March 28, 2011
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When you’re the size of Community Links – a whole community of people helping their community – the government spending cuts can have a devastating effect. Community Links does so much for so many that just explaining what it’s about looked like a daunting task. They turned to beautiful world to help them build a clear [...]
February 16, 2011
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Google had a good idea about a year ago with a Gmail Labs feature called Mail Goggles, which required you to solve math problems in order to respond to email. If you failed to answer the math problems correctly, no email for you. Perhaps community users – especially those of, say, the Red Cross – need a pair of Twitter Goggles. Earlier tonight, someone who updated the Red Cross’ official Twitter account was apparently getting “slizzerd”.
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