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Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server. - Howard Lake

Fabulous informed travel site for UK and European rail - Howard Lake

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. - Howard Lake

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. - Howard Lake

ToneCheck™ is an e-mail plug-in that flags sentences with words or phrases that may convey unintended emotion or tone, then helps you re-write them. Just like Spell Check… but for Tone. - Howard Lake

ToneCheck™ is an e-mail plug-in that flags sentences with words or phrases that may convey unintended emotion or tone, then helps you re-write them. Just like Spell Check… but for Tone. - Howard Lake

Blackbaud launched new forums and blogs in February 2008 - Howard Lake

Blackbaud launched new forums and blogs in February 2008 - Howard Lake

YouTube launched in September 2007 a program that enables non-profit organisations to setup their own channels free of charge. - Howard Lake

YouTube launched in September 2007 a program that enables non-profit organisations to setup their own channels free of charge. - Howard Lake

The Global Language Monitor has announced that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. Twittered was followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire. The near-ubiquitous suffix, 2.0, was No. 6, with Deficit, Hadron the object of study of CERN’s new atom smasher, Healthcare, and Transparency rounded out the Top 10. - Howard Lake

An effort to win a July 2010 competition by Radisson Blue offering 365 hotel nights and donate them to charities to use to fundraise with. The winner is determined by public vote, closing on 24 July 2010. - Howard Lake

The site is designed to support students using our fundraising textbook 'Fundraising: Principles and Practice', but it will also be helpful to students of fundraising in general. Our goal is to be as helpful as possible to students of fundraising wherever they may be. - Howard Lake

Whitebox is a simple way for you to generate fundraising revenue in a branded and easy to implement way. It is free to join and is a revenue sharing scheme from doing what everyone does ... searching the internet. All powered by its search partner Yahoo! - Howard Lake

Blog by fundraising department of MND Scotland. - Howard Lake

According to a May 2010 study by Digital Brand Expressions, 52% of social marketers are operating “without a game plan,” similar to the 50% found in April 2010 by R2integrated. - Howard Lake

Email summary of new content in your social media accounts - includes Facebook. - Howard Lake

Share your tweets or favourites as a tweetbook - save in PDF. - Howard Lake

a super-simple tool for trend comparison over the day, week, and year. - Howard Lake

join the conversation here if you want to help us create a cohesive voice about the impending cuts and shifts in Arts Funding in the UK - Howard Lake

a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear. - Howard Lake

Rapidata in acssociation with UK Fundraising has created a short survey to ask some simple questions about your experiences on online fundraising, treating your answers confidentially and with anonymity. - Howard Lake

The Funding Network (TFN), founded in 2002, enables individuals to join together to fund social change projects. We’ve been described as a marketplace for donors and charities, as the UK’s 1st public, open giving circle, and as the ‘Dragon’s Den' for charities! We have raised well over £2 million for over 350 diverse local, national and international projects, through TFN Groups in London, the South West, Leeds, Oxford, Johannesburg and Toronto and through Youth TFN (YTFN) in London. - Howard Lake

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. We pay our AdSense for search partners a 51% revenue share, worldwide, for the search ads that appear through their implementations. - Howard Lake

Apple's policy barring solicitation of donations by nonprofit groups is a cop-out and blocks a major revenue stream for charities/nonprofits. - Howard Lake

Should you use your personal username and password or should you create a completely new account? The short answer is to create a completely new account and then add your personal account as an admin of the Page. - Howard Lake

Since 2007 the TaxPayers’ Alliance has provided an annual list of council staff whose total remuneration exceeds £100,000. - Howard Lake

The Mycroft Project provides a collection of more than 21 thousand Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins for your web browser. - Howard Lake

type in the 'epic' code or 'ticker' of the company concerned at the end (in this particular case 'barc' for Barclay) the site will take you automatically to important stuff only - including the most recent final or half year results. - Howard Lake

The Walt Disney Company has created what it believes is a first-of-its-kind application allowing Facebook users to buy tickets to “Toy Story 3” without leaving the social networking site and while, at the same time, prodding their friends to come along. When you buy a ticket through Disney’s application, for instance, it alerts your Facebook friends and prompts you to invite them to buy tickets of their own. Early results indicate that people are using the application to buy tickets in groups as large as 80, according to Disney. - Howard Lake