TWINTEL Solutions

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.

1. 2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Find out more in MobileActive.org's "Definitive Guide to Mobile Fundraising".
2. While it seems that nearly every Super Bowl advertiser had been told by a research firm that men are feeling emasculated in 2010, at least the half time show was good. The Kitty Halftime Show, that is. (The Who did have a cool stage.)
3. Fresh, hot 10NTC podcasts. You can subscribe on the front page of our new web site.
4. Weather forced the cancelation of ASAE's Tech10 conference, but in a matter of days, nptechies organized an alternative, the UnTech10. Materials are available online, with a side of awesome.
5. Ending hunger. Who could be against that?
6. 86% of nonprofits characterize their messages as difficult to remember.
7. Google Street View shenanigans. Move the car to see two guys in snorkling attire chase it down the street. (Maybe they had privacy concerns.)
8. Mouse pointer track.
9. Pew Internet, in their report on "Social Media and Young Adults", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. Have they discovered Japan's mobile phone novels fad?
10. We're not too sure how to feel about hipster puppies. On the one hand, hipsters fill us with inchoate rage. On the other, those are some cute pups. We'll compromise and hope they bite their owners.
11. Should Executive Directors use social media?
12. You dropped food on the floor. Do you eat it? Another in a long line of great flowcharts from the Interwebs. (And did you know the 5-second rule is a myth?)
13. 86% of nonprofits characterize their messages as difficult to remember, although we think we've heard that somewhere before...