Online Donors Give Much More
A Kintera/Luth study found that:
On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.
Matthew Hurst points out that Google’s terms of service for its new Analytics service allows it to use the collected data for its own purposes. Essentially, in exchange for free web visitor stats for your blog or web site, you agree to let them take advantage of that treasure drove of data being collected. Seems…
MediaPost reports: BUZZ-TRACKING FIRM UMBRIA WILL UPGRADE its Buzz Report, which tracks conversations about brands on blogs and message boards, by offering users more refined demographic information and an enhanced method for dealing with blog spam. Buzz Report, which monitors about 11 million blogs and 100,000 public message boards, already analyzes posts to determine writers’…
As expected, Google has entered the blog search game. Try it here. Note that it is not truly a blog search function, but a feed search tool. If a blog publishes only excerpts, Google will only search the excerpt. Also, it does not search comments or other material on blog sites. And it only covers…
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I get a lot of email. And a lot of that email reflects pretty poorly on the sender. Some of the emails I receive wouldn’t even make the cut as amateur ransom notes. They are often laden with misspellings or typos. Frequently they fail to make a succinct point. They routinely seem to be disorganized…