I’m not proud of this, but I’m obsessed with the Proust Questionnaire feature on the back page of Vanity Fair. Made famous by the responses from Proust at various ages throughout his life (I prefer age 20 to age 13, for the record), the questionnaire is a smart little treat. It’s a perfect coda to [...]
All photos taken from Chimp Haven’s website The DonationPay office can be an emotional bunch and we have been known to get . . . worked up, over the awesome work our clients are doing. We are moved, inspired and amazed at our clients great work, fortitude and brilliant fundraising strategies, every day. That [...]
Today, because I’m feeling lazy as sin, I’m going to put up another short video that shows how our social networking features work. Most of our clients are already including these on their DonationPay pages, but if you’re not and you’d like to, give us a holler! The demo is on the page of one [...]
So I’ve now written quite a few words on how Astia and it’s dynamic community have impacted us here at DonationPay, but I haven’t talked specifically about the other business owners I encountered during the workshop week. Too numerous to count and individually namecheck were brilliant individuals in varying states of business development: some just [...]
As everyone who knows me or subscribes to our blog or Twitter feed knows, last week I was uncharacteristically out of the office, attending the Astia program week in San Francisco. Astia, a global non-profit that connects women-led start-ups with funding and business development services, offers a weeklong program of panels, workshops, speakers, extremely fun [...]
Reading the list of Women In Tech to follow on Twitter, I ran across a fabulous company which many of our readers may already know about- I absolutely hate being late the party, but boy is GirlDevelopIt! amazing! Their mission is to foster a safe, productive and proactive environment for female software developers and programmers; [...]
Reading the recent Convio white paper -produced from a round of intensive user testing on the donation pages of seven major domestic non-profits- I realized that it’s already time to talk donation page optimization for the holiday fundraising push. While there are some pretty obvious findings in the Convio report (like, a one page donation [...]
All right folks, DonationPay has now successfully moved to our new offices in Berkeley California- we’re thrilled to be a part of the Bay Area business community and we’re looking forward to working with more awesome non-profits in the area. Farewell, Seattle, you will be missed- though, the weather. . . not so much. Because [...]
Viral videos, as a topic of conversation, can leave a bit of an unpleasant taste in my mouth. It’s not that I’m not an avid watcher of all the hilarious, compellingly brief, time-wasting, occasionally heartwarming little snippets out there (because I definitely am), it’s just that the term ‘viral’ no longer seems appropriate. ’Viral’ implies [...]
Since last week, I’ve been meaning to write a long post about our experience at Netroots Nation last weekend in Minneapolis. And while it’s been edifying to- instead of writing this long and thoughtful blog post- slog through the backlog of work I left behind to attend the conference, I had trouble deciding how to [...]
