Ashley’s back and talking about crowdfunding, the McDonalds Twitter hashtag #fail, mobile content consumption and a new record for YouTube

Facebook is set to introduce sponsored content to our Facebook News Tickers – the real time updates section in the news feed.

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: [...]

Foursquare had a record day, Google adds social gaming to its repertoire and releases Google Analytics V5. YouTube follows suit with upgraded analytics and Facebook launches a rival to Groupon and LivingSocial.

Swipegood makes donating even easier, Google updates offering to non-profits, check-in to Facebook events and Twitter may be soon to roll out brand pages

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!

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.

At youth mobility charity Whizz-Kidz we’ve been steadily increasing our social media and real-time web use over the last 18 months; trying and testing different platforms for different communications with our supporters and users.

Diabetes UK, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation have been working together to raise awareness of the dangers of Active Fat. The fat that makes up your love handles – actually, I won’t assume that you have love handles, that would be rude…

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.

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.

Anyone keeping an eye on Iran in the aftermath of the (rigged?) election could not help but be struck by the role that social media is playing in the unfolding events.