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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Branding your body for charity

Pushing oneself to personal limits in the name of charity is pretty common (and very cool) these days.
Fair maidens tackle 100km over 36 hours for Oxfam, there’s shaving hair or growing body hair and stepping into the boxing ring to support youth to list just a few.
However, there is a new challenge in town….  [...]

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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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The problem with the ‘non’

as in “Hi, We are XYZ – we are a non-profit organisation…”
The term ‘non-profit’ is only useful to declare upfront that you do not pursue profit ahead of investment in more important values or change. However it is those values and your vision of change that makes you unique – so why not lead with [...]

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Super cool people doing good things

Spring has arrived and September is already a cracking month at Givealittle HQ with lots of great stuff happening on and off the site. The team is amped and racing forward with new and exciting plans and version 2 is proving a great hit with loads of interesting new cause pages being created.
I don’t [...]

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Give fabulous gifts, then give again

I love it when the latest Springwise email newsletter hits my inbox.  Weekly I ooh and ahh over clever business ideas spotted by Springwise’s global network of 8,000 people.
Last week the issue featured LavishGiving.com. More oohing and ahhing over the wonderful range of products but that is not the point of this blog.
LavishGiving.com not only [...]

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