Five Fundraising Tips from the charity:water September Campaign
Tweet From a fundraising perspective, one of the great successes of the last few years has been charity: water. In five years the organization has evolved from a lean startup charity into a fundraising juggernaut that has raised millions online and provided potable water to an estimated two million people. The organization just rolled out...
Announcing Giving eCards
Tweet An increasing part of our work at The Bivings Group revolves around helping non-profits and political organizations fine tune their fundraising strategies. This work has taught us that raising money is tough. The down economy has created fierce competition for donor dollars, so organizations have to get creative in order for their solicitations to...
Nonprofit Benchmarks 2011: Email
M+R Strategic Services and the Nonprofit Technology Network recently released its “2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study” covering a broad range of digital issues regarding NPOs. The study has a lot of great information that I intend to breakdown and analyze in a few manageable posts. Today, we’ll start with Email. As many nonprofits know, a large,...
Eating Our Own Dog Food
One thing we preach to our clients is the need for an iterative approach to the development of websites. Too many organizations neglect their website for long periods, and then launch a major redesign project every three or four years that ends up monopolizing staff resources and breaking the bank. Assuming the site is on...
Analyzing Our Mobile Stats
We’ve all seen the stats. Globally, there are 4 billion mobile phones – 1.08 billion of which are smart phones. On average, Americans spend 2.7 hours a day socializing on their mobile devices. By 2014, more people globally will access the Internet via a mobile device than a desktop computer. Mobile is exploding and it...
Case Study: The Podesta Group
The Podesta Group is one of the most respected government and public relations firms in Washington. The firm has grown dramatically the last few years, and as a result it needed a new website design. The old site reflected who the Podesta Group was a few years ago and not what it has become. The...
Another Awesome 404 Error Page
A 404 error page is that annoying page you get when you try to access a web page that has moved or been deleted. A couple of months back I wrote a dorky blog post about how web developers should use 404 pages as branding opportunities instead of just throwing the page away and spitting...
The Bivings Group Launches Website for TBG Gives Winner Critical Exposure
Last year we launched a program called TBG Gives, through which we pledged to donate $10,000 in Internet consultant services to a worthy DC-area non-profit. We solicited applications online and the response to the program was overwhelming, as more than 100 groups applied and we really struggled to pick a winner. We ended up awarding...
2010 Best US Newspaper Facebook Fan Pages
Tweet This is the second installment of our 2010 Facebook Newspaper study, and features our top 10 rankings for the best and most interactive fan pages amongst U.S. newspapers. Newspapers selected were among the 100 largest in the U.S. (based on circulation). In addition to ranking each paper by the number of Facebook fans, we...
The Bivings Group Launches a New Website for the Entomological Society of America
Tweet Last night we launched a new Drupal-powered website for the Entomological Society of America. This was a big project, as we had to import over 6,000 pages of flat, HTML content into Drupal and integrate with a variety of third-party platforms. An awesome job by The Bivings Group team. You can check out the...
New Team Member: Alla Goldman
Today at the Bivings Group we are happy to welcome Alla Goldman to the firm as our new Social Media & Client Services intern. Thank you again to all the other excellent applicants who applied. Below is a short note from Alla, who will soon be a frequent contributor to this blog.
-Tyler Gray,
Greetings Readers of...
