The CharityChannel has formally  launched a Development – Office email – based discussion list.  It costs $2 to $3 per month and allowes you to tap into the collective wisdom of 1000s of development professionals. Founded in 1992,  it now will mirror those that go on in development offices everywhere. Therein will be discussions on planned giving, annual funds, capital ...

A philanthropic advisory service has been launched to match donors with nonprofits that share their values.  SmartGiving at www.smart-giving.com aims to help donors focus their giving by helping them write a mission statement and spell out their phillantropic values. Nonprofits may submit information about their organization.  Donors will pay an advisory fee and nonprofits will have free access to Smart’s ...

Convio is offering a free 23 page fundraising guide  that you can download from convio  going to their reference library where the fundraising guide is locared. The guide details best practices for using the Internet to: Build an email file and begin communicating online Learn what motivates donnors by asking them about their interestes And much more. The ACS should ...

As David Collin said,  blogging is set to become the biggest pastime in the US.  8 million say they have online diarys and 32 millon say they read them. Wikkis are communally created web pages while blogs are personal based web pages  So says the Pew Internet and American Life Project.  Also read ,"We the Media", by Dan Gilmor, a ...