Openface is about to issue a 2009 update to the Chairty Benchmark Report, looking at the original 120 charities uptake and participation on Twitter….
How many UK charities do you think use Twitter?
Results coming in December.

Charity Benchmark Report, econsultancy.com, twitter

Thank you Mashable for pointing out that following the Spanish version, Twitter is now available in French. Simply select your language preference in the settings menu.
Bon chance.

en francais, French, settings menu, Spanish, twitter

A reminder to UK charities with an online presence that we still undertake the research for personalised charity benchmark reports.
The reports compare your site to five competitors from our benchmark against the established tried and tested set of criteria. The criteria get’s updated as the industry adapts to more tools, for instance […]

LinkedIn announced yesterday that they have achieved the 50 million registered user mark!
NB Facebook just hit 300 million users.
You can almost picture the adoption curve; on launch in ‘03, it took 477 days for the first million members to join. I remember getting the stamp ‘1st Million User stamp’ for my profile. […]

Facebook announced last week (15th Septebmer 2009) their news that they are ahead of schedule. Instead of becoming cash positive some time in 2010, this has already been achieved in quarter 3 of 2009. User registrations have now surpassed the 300 million mark too.
So what are the income sources? Silicone Alley Insider estimates the […]

Do you need to reference other companies social media campaigns to see what tools they used and what they set out to achieve in order to work out your online strategy? Peter Kim has provided a great list of examples, complied in the last quarter of 2008, so relatively up to date.
‘njoy.

campaigns, mashable, […]

Just come across this golden site that checks if your ‘user name’ is available across popular sites including twitter, technorati, ebay, flickr, smugmug, lastfm and many many more sites.

Usernamecheck.com is so simple to use. Just type in your prefered user name and see if it is still available!
‘njoy

account management, online tools, […]

Strategy Magazine have awarded the overall ‘Cause + Action 2009′ award to CBC’s One Million Acts of Green (OMAoG).
The awards recognise the best of Canadian corporate social responsibility plans and CBC and Cisco Systems picked up the overall winner award.
In less than six months, the site succeeded its named intentions. Cisco knew […]

I would like to point you in the direction of this article on econsultancy.com that lists their top 20 free buzz monitoring tools (still) including the likes of Technorati, Google’s alerts (a personal favourite and so easy to set up and manage), howsociable? and Icerocket.
If you haven’t already, please please set up a google alert […]

Martha Lane Fox managed to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ with Lastminute.com’s success in 2003 but since then, there is hardly an instantly recallable female Internet household name that comes to mind. Sarah Jane Robertson, brought this post to my attention from www.incomediary.com. It lists the top 30 female internet entrepreneurs. He […]