Love it or hate it, AI, LLM’s, NLM, ML, Gen AI and NLG, are here to stay. (You know what they ALL mean, right? 😉). So how can you best use it for fundraising? Let me tell you the ways! AI can be too much for the mind (and heart) - both knowing what to do with AI now...
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Connect Meaningfully With Your Supporters Through Discord
What is Discord? A quick search on your favourite search engine will tell you it's a free chat service for gamers, using both instant messaging and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). The reality is a defining platform for connection between groups, cohorts, and...
ChatGPT For Charities: A Guide
If you have been living in a bubble and don’t know what ChatGPT is, it is an interactive (chat-like) application based on a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. It was trained on a massive amount of text data using a deep neural network architecture called...
Cool Digital Fundraising That’s Making Our Bells Jingle in December
Mariah & Michael are singing, festive cheer is ringing, and generous donors keep on giving (despite the challenges that 2022 has thrown our way – ahem, $10 lettuce WAH?!). It’s a fascinating time of year, and we are tickled pink by some of the digital fundraising...
Best Christmas Appeals 2016
It’s A Wrap! Christmas is over, so who made us give? With 2017 into full swing, I wanted to take some time to look at some of the Christmas Appeals of 2016 before I gallop full steam ahead into all the amazing projects about to kick-off this year. My inbox has been a...
Pokemon Go – more searches than Brexit
Pokemon Go bigger than Brexit Ok, let’s face it. Pokemon Go has made its way to be in everyone’s conversation at some point in the last couple of months, but it is not just the fact that people are talking about it, millions of people are playing it and loving it....
Another First World Problem
There’s nothing more inspiring to me than when a not for profit uses a common social media trend and turns it around to do something positive. This is exactly what “Water is life” did in their First World Problems Campaign First World Problems Hashtag To give some...
Creative, Multi-channel marketing at its finest – Anchorman2
Anchorman2 has been doing some really creative marketing for the upcoming release. I'm really enjoying the effort that Paramount Pictures have gone to in the marketing of Anchorman2. Creative marketing strategy from Paramount Whether or not you're a fan of the actual...
Talking Tech with some cool folk
I've had a lovely time talking tech with some cool folk who all met on Google Plus, me included I guess. These guys run a weekly podcast on all things tech and online and I was interviewed for the 265th episode of TechWebCast. In this catchup we talked about streaming...