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The tiny tree frog

1 February 2011

Agent and Godfather of Good, David Love is back from Costa Rica and files this report from the field. Even in the middle of a tropical rainforest, the donor is never far from the Godfather’s mind. “But it’s so small.” Ann and I are looking at a tiny red-eyed tree frog on leaf in Costa [...]

Das Mail

24 January 2011

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So I recently bought a new car. A VW Golf Wagon. Just the right balance of race car (6-speed turbo diesel engine) and mom car (room for my 2 kids and our shaggy dog). I came home to this in my mailbox. Wrapped in that old-school brown paper, hand-taped. A stamp from “Wolfsburg, Deutschland” on [...]

What do you have on YOUR wall?

21 January 2011

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I would say -oh -like 95% of charities (or at least the offices I have been to) have posters from their events, awards they have won, pictures of this and that. But, I’m curious… What do you have on your wall? I saw this tweet last week: @ActionAidUK: This inspirational piece of art in our [...]

#afpcongress: By the hashtags, scribbles, photos and vids

5 December 2010

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Here are the highlights from our scribbled notes and tweets from Congress. We heartily encourage all fundraisers to check out the #afpcongress hashtag to review the highlights from all tweeps in attendance. Scribbles: Wendy Mesley: “Trust is not being given to institutions but to individuals.” Sean Triner (@seantriner) on “witnessing”. This is brilliant. Sean insists [...]

Innovation & Stupidity: In Defence of John Lepp

27 November 2010

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Innovation & Stupidity: In Defence of John Lepp

Always good to hear from you, Dear Readers. And we’ve been hearing from many of you in response to John’s blogs on Innovation and Stupidity. You challenged us (well, John, but I agree with him) about spouting off without knowing the results of the mailings. Busted. But that wasn’t the point. This is direct marketing, [...]

#hashtags

15 November 2010

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I’ve spoken about the value of using a tool like twitter for professional growth. And hopefully if you are using it, you have been using #hashtags to follow certain conversations or events. If not, I quickly show you how and why you should be! I failed to mention there is a great tool called Tweetchat. [...]

Scott Stratten and Social Media

25 April 2010

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If you are on twitter, you may have heard of Scott – most people know him as @UnMarketing. Scott’s mission is to teach business how to stop marketing and start engaging with your clients, customers, donors, etc. He makes it sound easy because in many ways, it is easy. He was in Toronto this week [...]