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!

The Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2010 report is full of interesting insights if you are blogging and want to promote your blog – or your website, for that matter – to a wider audience.

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’.

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.

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.

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.