Third Sector reported yesterday on some recently published findings by nfpSynergy (I’ve clipped the article on my Posterous), which prompted me to ponder on these points in particular:

Latest Charity Awareness Monitor also indicates that persistent or obtrusive fundraising puts donors off

The proportion of people who think charities work professionally has increased by more than a sixth over the past three years, according to a survey.

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.

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 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?