Author Archives: David Collin

The new ACS skunkworks

I just got some information about ACS Labs. No, not cancer research with mice and all that, but an ongoing part of the organization working on web and online projects and their applicability to our work. Sounds great. At the pace that online technologies and services are changing, it makes sense to have development happening all the time. Shouldn’t take ...

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WANTED: online-savvy fundraisers

In an article at onPhilanthropy titled "Online Fundraising Jumps in 2005…"  A couple of quotes: As proof points for online marketing success continued to roll in during 2005, more nonprofits began deploying commercial Online Constituent Relationship Management (eCRM) solutions. Looking ahead, online fundraising will continue to grow in 2006 at least at the same pace as last year. On average, ...

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By the numbers

Mike Mitchell sent me the link to a Gallup Poll about blogging published today. The bottom-line can be summed up by one paragraph. Gallup’s annual Lifestyle survey, conducted Dec. 5-8, 2005, finds only 9% of Internet users saying they frequently read blogs, another 11% read them occasionally, 13% say they rarely read them, while 66% never read them. The tone ...

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I say again: ACS-TV!

Here’a link to an interview on Net2 with Irina Slutsky, a longtime vlogger (video blogger). When asked about use of vlogs for nonprofits, Irina said: Marshall Net Squared works to bring Web 2.0 into the hands of non profit groups. Is this a worthwhile medium for those groups to explore? Irina i’d say it’s a VERY worthwhile medium for non-profits ...

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