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No matter where you look, social media is on everyone’s radar. The big question nonprofits ask is, how useful is social media? In an attempt to help nonprofits answer that question, Idealware, in partnership with NOI, recently released “The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide.” According to Idealware’s survey of over 750 nonprofit staffers:

via How Useful is Social Media to Nonprofits?  – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop.

A third of the world’s population has given money to charity in the past month, the largest study ever carried out into global social conscience reveals today.

The “World Giving Index” used Gallup surveys of 195,000 people in 153 nations and asked people whether they had volunteered or given money or help in the last month. It also asked respondents to rank how happy they are with life.

It found that a fifth of the world’s population had volunteered, almost a third had given money to charity, and 45% had been “good samaritans” and helped a stranger.

via ‘Good Samaritan’ survey shows charitable giving trends | Society | The Guardian.

Gift Aid system costs charities £750m a year, says reportThinktank ResPublica says the Gift Aid system needs to allow text donations and develop its online presence if it is to remain relevant in the digital age

via Gift Aid system costs charities £750m a year, says report | Money | The Guardian.

Just found out if you put .LOG at the top of a text file. Then make amends in notepad when you next open the textfile it will show a date and timestamp. This is really useful if you are making notes in rough form to use as a memory jogger. Go on give it a go. So open notepad (notepad.exe) type .log at the top of the file. Click on a new line and start typing. Save your file and then open it again and you will see a timestamp – how cool!