Work smarter online with the yMedia Online Toolkit

Dip your toes into the online space with a read through the yMedia Online Toolkit. It is hot off the press and gives some great tips on how to engage online and use online tools to work smarter.
Online Toolkit
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What are your favourite online tools?

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Charity Who Cares?

Simply fantastic visualisation of charitable giving in the USA from www.wallstats.com.
budget planner – Mint.com

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How do you Facebook?

I’ve been told recently that if Facebook was a country it would be the third most populated in the world.  An interesting number to grasp when you are from a country with a population of approximately 4 million.
Facebook has come along way in the last few years. It is now more than just a social [...]

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PublicACTA The Wellington Declaration

I have just signed the petition endorsing the Wellington Declaration – a result of the PublicACTA conference in Wellington on Saturday.
From the PublicACTA site:
“ACTA is a controversial international treaty that impacts digital rights and is being negotiated in secret meetings. PublicACTA has been organised by InternetNZ so that the public can critique the known [...]

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Understanding Digital Direct Marketing & Fundraising

A fantastic presentation from Rachel Beer of  London based agency Beautiful World.
Understanding Digital Direct Marketing and Fundraising
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There a number of parallels here with our findings at Givealittle. Particularly in relation to the traffic sources to causes and barriers to donating on charity websites.  Time to draft a future post to [...]

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How Microphilanthropy is Changing Giving

This a great view of the growth of microphilanthropy, check out the increase during the global recession, and how is it is changing giving. As presented by Peter Deitz,founder of Social Actions, as part of the 2010 panel discussion convened by Social Venture Partners Toronto.

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My five actions for good in March

Inspired by a blog I stumbled across this morning and a bit of resulting Twitter chat I’ve made a list of five actions to take in March.
There’s nothing revolutionary here, in fact there are things that many of you have done or maybe undertake regularly.  The beauty of the blog “A year of giving without [...]

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The world responds

As the true level of devastation is reported from Haiti we now see the international relief response gear up. Yesterday news reports were somewhat speculative due the lack of communication available from Haiti but yet again Twitter provided news agencies and the general public with a glimpse into the horror unfolding. At times I was [...]

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Sharing our birthday presents

I’ve been baking a cake, chilling the bubbles and trying to sneak a bouncy castle into the office (that didn’t go so well).
But – the great news is that I’m going to be matching donations from today!  So…if you make a donation and share it on the Givealittle Elf Facebook page, Tweet it to me [...]

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One year on…

Givealittle.co.nz launched to the public one year ago today (cue: canned applause, green balloons, party poppers and cheap bubbly now).
The only thing that seems appropriate to reflect on today (apart from all the various ailments now present in the Givealittle office as a result of too much time in front of computers) is the growing [...]

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