In a recent post, Patrick Thornton of the Poynter Institute shares how journalists are using metrics to track the success of tweets. It's well worth a read.
Passing along info from today's Agitator, which addresses the brewhaha over how difficult Apple makes it for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps. There's a petition going around that nonprofits need to know about and sign.
Chris Ulmer turned his passion for running into a fundraising drive for Teach for America, asking supporters to donate money for each one of the 250 miles he plans to run from Penn State to his home in Willow Grove, Pa., upon graduation.
Seriously, how do you not love this video from Beth Kanter? Not only is the video adorable, but the concept of a virtual book launch party is cool. It's near and dear to my heart, especially, since we're still reeling over the success of FS' first virtual conference and trade show
In the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January, lots of folks are holding out hope that text-to-give and other mobile apps will be the Next Big Thing.
In the midst of the massive fundraising efforts for Haiti relief, and with donations garnered through text messaging grabbing national and international headlines, it was no surprise that mobile fundraising provoked much discussion and debate throughout the conference.
