A more meaningful prediction

I posted some short term prognostications early this morning. I then talked with someone who immediately confirmed my sense that my call about celebrity giving as this Giving Season’s big buzz was correct. I also got a comment from Beth Kanter alerting me to her social media predictions, and I know Beth’s work well enough [...]

New types of trend data

My colleague Jonathan Jaffray has a new blog, philanthropyadvisor.com (great name!), and is out of the starting blocks with an important insight – he notes here that more than 100 domain names had been registered with the word “gustav” by September 1st. He rightly continues to note that donors should be wary of making donations [...]

It’s a pen, it’s a pledge card, it’s a cell phone!

Everything about the panel set up looked familiar – four chairs on a raised dais, clip on mics, water glasses. It wasn’t until the moderator of this particular discussion opened it up to the audience for questions that I realized I was truly among a different group than those to whom I often speak. The [...]

Mobile banking – not just for Africa anymore

As of March 27, mobile banking has come to the U.S. At least to cell customers of Cingular/A.T. & T. Now, lets watch those remittance numbers jump. Tags: philanthropy, technology, mobile