A craftsman might have over a dozen screwdrivers. A tinkerer like myself needs a couple of slots and a couple of Philips/plus and we’re good-to-go for most anything we’d encounter around the home. As our use of social-networking tools matures, we might find ourselves wanting to invest in more refined devices to deal with specific […]
#SocialNetworks: Facebook vs Google Privacy Smackdown
They are the two superpowers of our web experiences, and they have been butting heads over social media and searchability for some time. The byte of contention is whether Google can search people’s profiles (especially their ‘Likes’) for Google’s searches and whether Facebook can tap into GMail contacts to further one’s list of friends. For […]
Development: Acquiring Donors – When “Plan A” Falls Short
When The Agitator blog polled its nonprofit readers in April, the overwhelming majority said they get a second gift from less than 40% of their new donors. This prompted posts on two alternative – and very different – plans for finding new donors if “Plan A” doesn’t work. “Plan B” is essentially to give up on […]
Resources: Nonprofit Report, White Paper & eBook Round-up
Lori Halley at the The Wild Apricot Blog provides a useful summary of six recently published research reports, white papers, e-books and guides that might be of interest to non-profit and membership organizations. 2011 Millennial Donors Report Pew Internet and Family Life Project 2010 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report Social CRM for Associations […]
Aging: Study Reveals Being Homebound is Linked to Alzheimer’s
Steve Gurney (ProAging Information Network) reports on a new study that looks at the incidence of Alzheimer’s in “housebound” seniors. The study suggests that being housebound nearly doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The new study, published online April 15 in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, looks at something known as “life space.” […]
Development: Nonprofits Hope To Hire (A Few) in 2011
Happy Easter Monday/Last day of Passover! We mark the season of rebirth and hope in new beginnings with a study suggesting the (tempered) optimism of the nonprofit sector to see some green sprouts of growth over the next six-to-eight months. The overall unemployment rate has gently and oh-so-slowly slipped back toward a mere 8.8%, and […]
Tech: Cloud Computing Can Contain Legal Catches
Though the US lags behind most of our post-industrial counterparts in high-speed network services, more services and content are moving online with each passing month. Many of us are getting our entertainment from ‘the cloud,’ and a growing number are putting our information back up into that cloud. For nonprofits, so-called ‘cloud computing’ holds a […]
Aging: Baby Boomers – A New Way to Grow Old
Baby boomers won’t grow old the old-fashioned way, experts say. It looks like the baby boomers, who used to urge each other to “do your own thing,” will do precisely that when it comes to retirement, write Tom Valeo and Sylvia Davis at WebMD.com. Some will imitate their parents and drop out of the work […]