The office has been enjoying watching the funny and heartfelt charity videos submitted for the JustTextGiving video competition this week. Charities wishing to enter the competition simply need to create a short, creative video using their JustTextGiving code and post it to YouTube, and the video with the most views by 23rd of this month [...]

This week Twitter rolls out promoted tweets with an interesting propostition for charities, and not content with this good CSR karma, it also plays a role in the debt ceiling deal in America. Groupon check into location services and Google+ brings out live video streaming.

YouTube reveals research on ad skipping YouTube recently launched a new TrueView advertising proposition. It’s a scheme in which viewers can skip video ads after five seconds and the advertiser only pays when viewers choose to watch. Subsequent research into ad skipping has thrown up some interesting findings. TrueView works in one of two ways: [...]

This week’s beautiful bytes looks at how the launch of JustTextGiving, Likester and Unity could impact the sector and looks at an innovative use of Groupon for clever crowdsourcing.

This week: Biz Stone launches new Non-Profit, our obsession with Facebook grows and a look at how we engage with Facebook Pages.

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.

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.

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.

These days, charities are getting a lot of encouragement to have a video presence on the web. Good thing, too.

YouTube, now the world’s second largest search engine, runs an excellent service for non-profits – with the ability to put links in your video that go directly to your website.