Comments on: Fundraising Secret #10: Read Blogs

By: Fundraising Secret #40: Learn from your colleagues

Fundraising Secret #40: Learn from your colleagues — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:56:41 +0000

[...] quite a friendly crew, usually quite ready to help each other. I’ve already recommended reading blogs as a free learning opportunity. Here are a few more ideas on how to connect with colleagues develop [...]

By: The Extreme Fundraising Blog » 50 lighter

The Extreme Fundraising Blog » 50 lighter — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:26:55 +0000

[...] I’ve been very “aware” of my blog reading habits since Fundraising Secret #10: Read Blogs. [...]

By: Marc A. Pitman

Marc A. Pitman — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:05:47 +0000

Andy, you’re absolutely right!

So much of alumni relations is transferable to non-school settings! (Of course, I’m biased as a former Alumni Director my self!)

By: Andy Shaindlin

Andy Shaindlin — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:32:31 +0000

Marc, thanks for including Alumni Futures! I hope people from other professions and non-profits find that the topics I cover are relevant to them as well. Online communities, digital relationships with constituents, non-profit governance, fundraising, volunteerism – this all can be applied elsewhere with a little imagination. Keep up the good work! – Andy

By: Roger Carr

Roger Carr — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:19:50 +0000

Thanks for sharing the list of blogs. I have added two that I wasn’t aware of to my list.

By: Sandra Sims

Sandra Sims — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:07:15 +0000

Great list Marc! Thanks for including me; I'm honored. I just unsubscribed from a ton of feeds in my Bloglines... now I'm down to only 81. Here are a few of the best: Gayle Roberts has a lot of great ideas on fundraising God's Politics from Jim Wallis & Sojourners Moms Speak Up group blog on variety of hot topics

By: » Resource Roundup: January 17, 2008

» Resource Roundup: January 17, 2008 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:33:44 +0000

[...] Fundraising Secret #10: Read Blogs- from The Extreme Fundraising Coach, Marc A. Pitman- Advice on how to learn more about the field of fundraising. [...]

By: Maya Norton

Maya Norton — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:15:16 +0000

Hi Marc,

I love the title of this article. It makes me feel in the know, which is a great draw.

Thanks for quoting me. Also, a belated happy birthday to you, hope it was wonderful.

By the way, I didn’t answer an e-mail you sent me regarding the Giving Carnival, so let me remedy that now. Personally, I didn’t get more hits from the November carnival than for a regular blog post, which was disappointing because that was one of the reasons I did it. On the plus side, I did make a few new connections in the nonprofit blogosphere, which was nice for me because although I think of myself as a nonprofit blogger, my networking leans toward Jewish philanthropy as it is a distinct area with specific needs and priorities.

I think it was a bit of an off month as well as many people were traveling and Thanksgiving fell early in America. Also, I volunteered when it was obvious they needed a host, so I would suggest to others getting the information out earlier than I did, which can be done by volunteering a couple of weeks, or even months, ahead of time.

The bottom line is that I would definitely recommend it. I know you are on the e-mail list (because that’s how we connected), so definitely do check out Gayle, Arlene, Christopher, and Trista’s blogs as examples as well.

I’d say the biggest obstacle is that there are about 200 people on the contact list, but I only heard back from about 15 of them and maybe 8 sent in responses. That ROI is too low and we should figure out how to change it. It may be something about the questions as well, which are challenging to formulate.

Was my answer worth the wait? (Say yes.) Please e-mail me if you have further questions. I’ll respond right away.

Maya

The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy