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I was lucky enough and honored to get invited to a special City of Austin meeting about the city’s Web Site.  You see we are having some issues with it.  In fact this was not your average City committee meeting with the council facing the usual number of crackpots, deadlocking over issues and it airing on Channel 6. What made ...

From one of our amazing readers:  Pew Research published research on Twitter users in February 2009: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1117/twitter-tweet-users-demographics. Not  surprisingly, they found that young adults (18-24) are the heaviest adopters.  The researcher also points out that lower income households are more likely to have Twitter users: “17% of internet users in households earning less than $30,000 tweet … compared with 10% ...

Freaking Radass, huh? This has to be the largest Mobile Giving Push in history. Twelve-time Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys’ appearance on FOX’s “American Idol” Wednesday night (May 13) raised an astonishing $450,000 from more than 90,000 mobile donors who texted their donations. Keep a Child Alive is the non-profit organization co-founded by Keys to provide health care and housing to ...

Our good friend John Turner sent us this new report from GuideStar. How does this compare with your Non Profit? Leave us some comments! http://www.daveiam.com/NPEconomicReport.pdf