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A relatively new iPhone application is building a somewhat cultish following of amateur photographers. It’s called “Instagram” and the number of dedicated users who have downloaded the app are growing at a rapid pace – the one-year-old Instagram now has more than 12 million users worldwide. Instagram is as simple as an application gets. To use … Continue reading »
Remarkable. No other word describes a one-day campaign where a state with less than five million people living within its borders is able to raise nearly $14 million for nonprofit organizations. Yes, that’s 14 followed by six zeroes. That massive philanthropic thrust was accomplished primarily through small gifts and was made possible, because of the … Continue reading »
Cheryl Cerny – Senior Director of Advancement Information Management & Research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute - talks about why mobile technology is especially important to fundraising. (Hint: think emotionally-driven impulse giving. The smart phone is always at your side, waiting to take a donation…) In the video below, Cheryl talks about impulse giving and the new … Continue reading »
Researchers at Rice are using Twitter to find the most exciting NFL action on any given Sunday. Here’s an excerpt from the Rice release explaining how the program works… “Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility announced in October that they found a way to monitor fans’ … Continue reading »
The always up-to-speed-in-the-social-media-world folks at Nonprofit Tech 2.0 have produced a quick and easy guide to getting your nonprofit started on Google+. While it’s no where near Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn when it comes to popularity, Google’s most recent venture into the social network space can’t be ignored. According to PCmag.com, Google+ has more than 50 million users … Continue reading »
The always up-to-speed-in-the-social-media-world folks at Nonprofit Tech 2.0 have produced a quick and easy guide to getting your nonprofit started on Google+. While it’s no where near Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn when it comes to popularity, Google’s most recent venture into the social network space can’t be ignored. According to PCmag.com, Google+ has more than [...]
You might have read our earlier post on how the Thunderbird School of Global Management saw their online donations increase more than 400 percent thanks to their social media strategy. Part of that strategy includes providing “valuable” content for their supporters, via the various social networks. “Valuable” can be one of those communications buzz words … Continue reading »
The Thunderbird School of Global Management enjoyed a 400 percent increase in the number of donors – many of them alumni – to its annual end-of-fiscal-year campaign 2010. Everything they did that year was the same, with one exception – Thunderbird had a small team of social media managers creating and monitoring conversations with the school’s supporters … Continue reading »
Are you a data hoarder? Do you have to parse through mountains of relatively useless information to find those oh-so-valuable tidbits that can make or break your fundraising efforts? If so, help is available…The Donorcast team joined forces with the …
