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Nawlins.

Photo_012909_001, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

In New Orleans (Nawlins) for the Our Giving Community Workplace Summit. I was on the "Internet Innovations to grow your organization" panel and talked about (surprise!) good2gether.

Last night I ate at Port of Call (best burgers in Nawlins) and today had a muffuletta at Central Grocery before heading to the airport to fly back to Boston.

If I lived in New Orleans I'd easy be 400+lbs. Easy.

Newspaper traffic up! Again. And nonprofits win!

Read it here at cnet news - Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent. 

Some important stuff:

• Unique visitors in the month of December rose to 40.1 million at newspaper web sites
• Nine of the top 10 newspaper web sites experienced positive year-over-year growth
• The New York Times posted a 6 percent increase in its December Internet traffic to 18.2 million unique visitors, compared with the same time a year ago
• USA Today jumped 15 percent to 11.4 million unique visitors
• The Washington Post climbed 12 percent to 9.5 million.
• The New York Daily News up a staggering 99 percent increase to 5.9 million
• The Los Angeles Times with a 73 percent jump to 8 million
• The New York Post with a 60 percent increase to 4.6 million

 

And the money quote from the article, "The challenge for newspaper publishers today is to learn how to capitalize on this active online readership and translate their increasing engagement into revenue."

This is great news for us and great news for our nonprofit partners - we deliver hyper-local content to our newspaper partners and we can help them monetize their traffic while doing good.  Brands win.  Newspapers win.  And most importantly - nonprofits win.

And in 2009 we'll be taking our platform to the college & university market and beyond.  Delivering the ability to do good virtually everywhere online.

If you're a nonprofit and would like to learn more, take a webinar and learn how our Do Good channels will make it easier for more people to find you and to get engaged.

Getting ready for launch – St. Louis.

We'll be launching Do Good St. Louis in February and in advance of that we're reaching out to local nonprofits to tell them about benefits of being part of what we do. The calls are pretty quick – typically less than 30 minutes – and invariably result in the nonprofit coming on board as part of our launch. Here's hoping the calls today have the same result. We'll be talking to:

• Regional Arts Commission of St Louis
• St Louis Area Foodbank
• Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater St Louis

And to keep adding to Do Good Chicago at The Chicago Tribune we have a call today with the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

Over the next month or so we'll be bringing Do Good channels to Philadelphia, Austin, Palm Beach, and Hartford – if you're a nonprofit want to learn about how Do Good channels can help your organization, take a webinar. They've fun, fast, and free.

 

 

Me. Hard at work.

Boston Childrens Museum, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Twitter followers. In pictures.

We use Twitter to send out updates multiple times per day on nifty stuff going on at good2gether – new statics, nifty opportunities to get involved with nonprofits, new market launches, etc.

Here are our Twitter followers represented graphically – if you'd like to follow what's happening with good2gether you can follow our 'tweets' here. It's a great way to keep up on all things good2gether.

It’s tax time – can you help out?

From Do Good Boston at Boston.com - Community Tax Aid of Boston needs people who can help low income folks prepare their tax returns.

Help 'em out.

And if you're a nonprofit, take a webinar - they're fun, fast, and free - and learn how good2gether can help you reach more people.

People from all over.

I love watching the traffic patterns at the good2gether blog – we're getting folks from all over the world coming by to learn about what we're doing. Just in the last day we've had folks from Ireland, Tanzania, Japan, and Switzerland. Welcome! We like have people from all over the world learn about what we're doing. We think our Do Good channels should be everywhere.

We love our partners. A lot.

When we launch in a local market we reach out to a targeted list of potential partners – nonprofits that we dub aggregators. These are organizations that in turn reach a whole bunch of individual nonprofits.

In advance of the launch of Do Good Chicago at The Chicago Tribune we started working, via phone and email, our target list of potential partners in the local market. United Ways are on that list so we reached out to folks at United Way of Lake County. After a quick online call/demo with them they thought what we were doing would be very cool for local nonprofits so they came on board as a launch partner and added their profile in the Do Good channel. We worked with them on messaging that they could share with their nonprofit partners and they started pinging out to their list of 100 nonprofits.

And in just a couple of weeks 16 of their partners were on board and in Do Good Chicago. 

Sixteen and it's just been a few weeks. Pretty cool. That's why we love our partners.

See below for an email they just sent out to their nonprofits.

If you're a nonprofit and want to see how good2gether can work for you – take a webinar. They're free, fast, and fun.

Wow. Mission of Burma!

I love – that's love, love, love – poking around the Do Good channels, finding wicked cool stuff that nonprofits are doing.

In Do Good Boston at Boston.com I just found this great one from The Center for Arts at the Armory – Mission of Burma Benefit Concert. Check it out. You can read about Mission of Burma here in Wikipedia – they were/are legends around the Boston rock scene.

Cool organization. Doing good stuff. Great event. Terrific band. And you're not going why?

Go. Enjoy. Do good.

Generation G.

From trendwatching.com – "Generation G".

Read all about it here.