You may have seen the heatmaps available through your website analytics program, and wondered if you could also see graphical representations of your emails. Heatmap created through Google Analytics. Even if your email software doesn’t have the ability to create click heatmaps, you can still easily make them on your own. Happy analyzing MORE >>

Elaina Buzzell is a consultant helping nonprofits best communicate their programs and missions. This post was written for Idealware, but you can read other insightful posts on her site, www.elainabuzzell.com. was re-watching Captain America recently, and I noticed a great story about good project management. Plan well to start off your project. MORE >>

The Giving USA 2012 report is out and it gives us a look at philanthropic trends from 2011. Here are five interesting facts that I pulled from the report. Giving by individuals, bequest, and family foundations amounted to 88% of total giving in 2011. This figure is one percentage point higher than in 2010. subsectors for these two years. MORE >>

The U.S. government is pushing for a more modular process for IT development. Instead of large, multi-year IT projects, the U.S. CIO, Steven VanRoekel, is advocating for projects that can be completed in three to six months (or multiple projects of that duration). The U.S. government is pushing for a more modular process for IT development. MORE >>

Last week Razoo conducted a national fundraising campaign where 162 nonprofits competed to win a share of $30,000 in prize money. The Ellie Fund (based in the home of the RedSox, thank you) won first prize for raising over $53,000 in 24 hours! We knew what we were up against, but put our heads together to employ the following strategies: 1. MORE >>