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.
Here is a tantalizing tidbit about a new blog analytics tool called Measure Map. It isn’t live yet, but you can sign up for an invitation.
In one of those odd twists of automated ad placement, I saw an ad for Dell product coupons (from a third party site, not Dell itself) in the RSS feed for Jeff Jarvis’ blog tonight. Those familiar with his "Dell Hell" experience will understand the overwhelming irony.
Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog. It comes in 3 parts: here, here, and here. He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.
AOL press release: TVEyes revealed that its Podscope search engine will be integrated with AOL Search (http://www.aolsearch.com). In the coming months, AOL will offer visitors the ability to discover thousands of additional podcasts through the integration of Spoken Word Indexing(TM). This innovative search capability will allow fans to get audio search results and sample from…
Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question. First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately. But I would also…
TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…