Britt Bravo has thrown out this net2thinktank question:  How Can Nonprofits Use the Social Web During the “Giving Season”?

It's an old idea - perhaps a slightly offensive one - but get them to go shopping.  Sign up for a decent affiliate site which has loads  of shops that your supporters are likely to trust. 

“Institutional Hack” is a delicious, contradictory new phrase for me. Paul Miller (of the School of Everything and from time to the think tank Demos) used it earlier today in this post on his personal blog.

At first you might think an Institutional Hack is one of those cynical folk, the type who’s skill, energy and expertise is focussed on working the politics of their organisation principally for personal gain.Not so. Paul’s idea is the opposite.

The latest programme on the Grassroots Channel Podcast features Beth Kanter talking about her fundraising yahoo widget triumph for the Sharing Foundation. 

How does a podcast based in Birmingham in the UK get Beth from Boston?  The old fashioned way: face to face during her lightning work trip to our fair city.  And do you know what, Beth's better in person than online!

Researched published this month was described as finding the part of the brain which deals with altruism.  In this post I explain why i think this is confused reporting, but also how the research may help explain that charities and non-profit groups are wonderfully well equipped to make the most of the social web.

This is my first post on netsquared and, if people don't object, I'll mostly use this space to point to relevant jottings elsewhere.