Non-Profits and Social Media: Nothing to be scared of!

By Paula Attfield on September 29, 2010

I love social media. I love it for its potential to bring people together. I love it for its potential to help us make the world a better place.

Take the earthquake in Haiti for example, people from all over… Continue reading →

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Fundraiser Retention: Video the Passion

By Shane Davis on September 27, 2010

I read a great post on The Agitator about Crowd Accelerated Innovation, a theorem from Chris Anderson. I liked the discussion on the speed at which video is able to amplify great ideas to go beyond words and… Continue reading →

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The Monthly Donor “Rip Off”

By Liz Attfield on September 22, 2010

There’s a commercial I like on TV. It’s a simple premise: a man hands a kid a large wheeled, shiny red truck, telling him to “Have some fun with that truck!”

The truck is as big as the kid’s torso.… Continue reading →

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RFQ

By Steve Thomas on September 20, 2010

We here at Stephen Thomas Ltd are fundraisers, not vendors. We care deeply about our clients, their work and our sector.

A good relationship with a client is a bit like a marriage. It takes work on both sides and… Continue reading →

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Non-Profits and Social Media – Twitter Engagement

By Paula Attfield on September 16, 2010

I follow hundreds of charities on twitter and over 100 are Canadian organizations. Out of those I follow, less than half followed me in return. The other half have ignored me.

Fewer still (only 11!) went to the trouble of… Continue reading →

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7 strategies to maximize your return on email

By Taslim Somani on September 13, 2010

Since the early 1990’s when AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail’ hit the mainstream, marketers have embraced email as the number one way to foster direct, one-to-one communications with customers and prospective customers online.

In fact, in an eMarketer report last November,… Continue reading →

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Magic bullet or silver bullet?

By Steve Thomas on September 4, 2010

It turns out they are much the same. A magic bullet is “a quick and easy solution for a difficult problem – a means of accomplishing the impossible.” And a silver bullet is “an action which cuts through complexity and… Continue reading →

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