Earlier in the Summer, we knew we were about to reach our first big Yimby milestone - raising over £1 million. This was pretty exciting for us, and we wanted to find a way to talk about it and do something to celebrate that. The obvious thing was to do some sort of press release (which…
Category: Writing
The future of Facebook fundraising
This is an article I wrote back in October 2012 and has just been published in the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing (you'll know it as the IJNVSM). It's predominantly based on a presentation I gave at the IoF National Convention in 2012, so some of the data is now a bit old - for…
Musing on blogs (aka the self-indulgence starts)
It is really stupidly easy to start blogging on wordpress.com. It's been a while since I blogged at the old JG blog (which is still live, and shouldn't be...) which was a hosted wordpress.com site. Now our blogs (all 3 of them - for runners, the main blog, and for charities) are self-hosted, so we…
