We’re finally through the 12 days of Christmas and only have 50 shopping weeks until the next one. For now, we can play with all the tasty information we got this Christmas!

Happy New Year everyone – welcome to 2011! I hope you all had a great break full of overindulgence – I think my Christmas dinner has just about settled. Time for some tech news I think!

One of the areas I often end up exploring with clients and at conferences is the difference in demographics between Facebook and Twitter users, between the platforms and what they can be used for.

Welcome to the first of a new weekly blog from beautiful world; beautiful bytes, a roundup of third sector digital news. All in one easy to swallow post.

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’.

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.

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.

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!

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’:

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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.