I'm currently reading Lewis Hyde's wonderful book, The Gift: Creativity and the Ar tist in the Modern World. In it, he explores the nature of the "gift economy" vs. the market economy and how creative types are caught in between these two fundamentally different ways of operating in the world.  Beyond that, the labor has its own schedule. MORE >>

The more information you've published online, the better the chances that your organization's blog or website will be found by potential readers, right? That's true, yes, as far as it goes — quantity counts when each indexed page might be the answer to some web-surfer's search query. Is all of your web content up-to-date and useful? read more ). MORE >>

Photo by Dwinton. You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy.  For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.  The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others.  If not, why?  MORE >>

It's no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. That's right. We're raising money, and matching funds up to $10,000 , to help make sure we get as many great, deserving people to this year's conference as possible. Donate Airline Miles. MORE >>

Straight from the Google Checkout Team: We’re writing to let you know that Google Checkout’s free transaction processing offer for non-profits has been extended until 2010. All other non-profits will transition to Checkout’s standard fee structure on March 1, 2009. Learn how to link your accounts: [link]. application was pending. MORE >>