Wiki Charities Will Lead Change
The end is in sight for traditional charities. In 2008, the first Baby Boomers will turn 62 years old. These Boomers will qualify for early retirement. Retirement shifts financial priorities – no surprise. The net result for fundraisers will be reduced funds raised through traditional, one-way channels from this group. Younger generations of donors – the people we are all trying desperately to attract – are fundamentally different than their parents. They have different response triggers. Gen X (to a degree), Gen Y, and Gen Z demand closeness with their philanthropic partners. We have the Web 2.0 to thank for that. Successful charities (wiki charities) offer control, interactivity, networking and community-building opportunities, and information aggregation to their donors, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders.
Continue reading...
19. November 2008
Auctions & DRTV Driving Online Dollars
Yours truly gets some exposure on the Non Profit Times website. I have one criticism: the article should have been proofread. My quotes are mangled, but at least my message of integration breaks through!
Continue reading...18. November 2008
Comments Off
Excuse The Mess
RaisingFundsBlog.com will relaunch next week in time for the Toronto AFP Congress.
Continue reading...19. November 2008
Personal MBA
I am embarking on a journey to attain my “Personal MBA.” Read more about it here. The first book I’ve read on the list is: First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman. Amazon Editorial Review: Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What [...]
Continue reading...19. November 2008
OHIO for Emails
Do you suffer from email overload? I do (occasionally). How do I manage email overload? I look to OHIO. Only-Handle-It-Once. My inbox is not cluttered with messages. In fact, I rarely have more than 30 emails in my inbox. I do this by responding to urgent emails, deleting irrelevant emails, using flags in Outlook to schedule later to-dos, filing [...]
Continue reading...19. November 2008
Download Google Notebook
Do you ever wish you could save webpages and access those webpages anywhere? Now you can. The Google Notebook extension for Firefox is a handy tool that I use to collect articles and other interesting web goodies. I then log in at home and review my handy work for the day. In fact, Google Notebook has been instrumental in collecting news/notes for this blog. It's a great tool to centralize and access your web finds!
Continue reading...© 2008 Raising Funds Blog. Powered by Wordpress.
19. November 2008
1 Comment